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One day, we may rely on robots to clean our houses, explore deep space, even perform surgery. It's a brave new world that fascinated writer Lee Gutkind, who spent years with scientists doing cutting-edge robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. We hear why he's nervous about our robotic future and also talk to him about how technology is changing his own field -- creative nonfiction.
Lee Gutkind, author of Almost Human: Making Robots Think (Norton); founder & editor, Creative Nonfiction: a Literary Journal; and editor of "The Best Creative Nonfiction: Vol. 1" (Norton)
A recent Kenyan fossil find is challenging theories of human evolution. Two fossils - an upper jaw bone of a Homo habilis and a skull of a Homo erectus -- reveal that the two species lived side by side for half a million years instead of evolving one after the other as previously thought. Join Kojo as we discuss the discovery and its significance to human prehistory.
Rick Potts, Director of the Human Origins Program, Paleoanthropologist, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Fred Spoor, Professor of Anatomy at the Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology at University College London.
Frank Brown, Professor of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
The United States provides almost half of all food donations to the developing world, but according to European countries and the UN World Food Program, the way we deliver that aid is signficantly out-of-date. Recently, CARE, the international humanitarian group, decided to reject American food aid rather than support a system it says "does more harm than good." We look at chronic hunger and humanitarian groups deliver food is delivered to world's starving people.
Helene Gayle, President and CEO, CARE
Ellen Levinson, Executive Director, Alliance for Food Aid
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