Catherine Matacic—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi approximately how geoengineering could reduce the harshest impacts of climate change,but fabricate (to make up, invent) them even worse if it were ever turned off.
Sarah also interviews Augustine Kong of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom approximately his Science paper on the role of noninherited “nurturing genes.” For example, educational attainment has a genetic component that may or may not be inherited. But having a parent with a predisposition for attainment still influences the child—even if those genes aren’t passed down. This shift to thinking approximately other people (and their genes) as the environment we live in complicates the age-frail debate on nature versus nurture.
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[Image: Collection of Dr. Pablo Clemente-Colon, or Chief Scientist National Ice Center; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Source: sciencemag.org