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If you had the opportunity to travel back in time to the 2000s or 2010s, what would you change to make the world a better place?

  • Do what I could to stop the passing of the SCOTUS Citizen's United ruling
  • Write a letter to then Senator Obama that there's a major recession coming and that holding the banks accountable and buoying the lower and middle class is a better option than a bailout of the private sector
  • Warn about various impending natural disasters around the world to try to save as many folks as I could

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Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine - Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages.

Yeah, even as a fan of biotech/synthetic biology, this gives me the heebie jeebies. I would rather serious resources be devoted to the Virtual Physiological Human Project and then have hospitals have ubiquitous dedicated bioprinters that can make organs/tissues based on genetic data from a cheek swab. Also genetic records are either temporary and needing consented reapplication or are permanent yet completely transparent about what data the hospital has and how it's being used/stored.

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What TV show traumatized you as a kid?

Invader Zim. The animation and shock humor was a little much for younger me, particularly the organ stealing episode.

Not a TV show specifically, but another thing I remember was there were these anti smoking ads with claymation figures that had creepy music and they ate dead birds and things.