DNA Tests and IQ

DNA Tests and IQ

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 823 , Segment 3

Episode: North Korea Summit, Being Awake While You Sleep, Rethinking Poll Reporting

  • May 30, 2018 11:00 pm
  • 16:36 mins

Guest: Catherine Bliss, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Author of “Social by Nature: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics” As DNA testing becomes more common, researchers are on a quest for “genius genes” that will answer once and for all just how much of a person’s intelligence is inherited and how much is due to environmental factors like schooling or home life. But is that knowledge we need? Could a genetic test for IQ backfire, ethically or morally?

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With North Korea Summit Trump Channels Clinton Administration

19 MINS

Guest: Eric Hyer, PhD, Associate Professor of International Relations of Asia, Brigham Young University, and Author of “The Pragmatic Dragon: China’s Grand Strategy and Boundary Settlements” President Trump’s summit with North Korea appears to be still in the works for June 12, after the President called it off in a public letter to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un last week. The US currently has a team of diplomats negotiating with North Korean officials in the DMZ and another team of diplomats in Singapore where the meeting is to take place. Meanwhile, one of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s top officials is traveling to the US this week to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. That’s an encouraging sign for those hoping the summit happens, since a visit to the US by a senior North Korean official is very rare.

Guest: Eric Hyer, PhD, Associate Professor of International Relations of Asia, Brigham Young University, and Author of “The Pragmatic Dragon: China’s Grand Strategy and Boundary Settlements” President Trump’s summit with North Korea appears to be still in the works for June 12, after the President called it off in a public letter to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un last week. The US currently has a team of diplomats negotiating with North Korean officials in the DMZ and another team of diplomats in Singapore where the meeting is to take place. Meanwhile, one of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s top officials is traveling to the US this week to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. That’s an encouraging sign for those hoping the summit happens, since a visit to the US by a senior North Korean official is very rare.