On this week’s show: A fossil excavation site that’s helping crack the Cambrian explosion, and would a universal DNA database for law enforcement be better than what we have now?
First, we hear from science writer Joshua Sokol about his trip to the Cambrian—well not quite. He talks with host Megan Cantwell about his travels to a remote site in the mountains of British Columbia where some of Earth’s first animals—including a mysterious, alien-looking creature—are spilling out of Canadian rocks.
Also on this week’s show, host Sarah Crespi talks with James Hazel a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings about a proposal for creating a universal forensic DNA database. He and his co-authors argue that current, invasive practices such as law enforcement subpoenaing medical records, commercial genetic profiles, and other sets of extremely detailed genetic information during criminal investigations, would be curtailed if a forensics-use-only universal database were created.
This week’s episode was edited by Podigy.
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Authors: Sarah Crespi; Meagan Cantwell; Joshua Sokol
First, we hear from science writer Joshua Sokol about his trip to the Cambrian—well not quite. He talks with host Megan Cantwell about his travels to a remote site in the mountains of British Columbia where some of Earth’s first animals—including a mysterious, alien-looking creature—are spilling out of Canadian rocks.
Also on this week’s show, host Sarah Crespi talks with James Hazel a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings about a proposal for creating a universal forensic DNA database. He and his co-authors argue that current, invasive practices such as law enforcement subpoenaing medical records, commercial genetic profiles, and other sets of extremely detailed genetic information during criminal investigations, would be curtailed if a forensics-use-only universal database were created.
This week’s episode was edited by Podigy.
Listen to previous podcasts http://www.sciencemag.org/podcasts
About the Science Podcast http://www.sciencemag.org/about/podcast
Listen to previous podcasts.
About the Science Podcast
[Image: JOHN LEHMANN; Music: Jeffrey Cook] ++
Authors: Sarah Crespi; Meagan Cantwell; Joshua Sokol
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