TONIGHT’S SHOW is more stream of consciousness than usual, as we follow a meandering path from the earthquake in Chile through a report from Canada’s Inuits that the Sun is out of position, the UN’s call for global environmental governance, America’s new Borg-like embassy in London, and finally to the trans-and post-humanist movement.
FRINGE SCIENCE meets harsh reality: Dr. Amy Bishop, the accused killer of three colleagues in the biology department at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, was working on a neural computer, blending human cells with a computer processor into what appears to be the first step toward a living artificial intelligence. Also: Carbon currency and prophecy; Joe Stack, patriot or coward; the manipulation of the Tea Party movement); and Bruce Ivins, official patsy of the 9/11 anthrax attacks.
WITH COMPANY in the bunker again tonight, we turn to another timely and important interview. In January of 2007, we talked with author, attorney and bioethicist Wesley J. Smith, whose blog Secondhand Smoke is a must-read if you’re concerned about the direction of medical ethics.
