a beginner's guide to playing god by playinggodpod

If we hadn't eaten so much avocado toast, maybe we could afford to clone our cat... but should we? On this episode, we tell you how exactly cloning works and why it might not be such a good idea to use cloning for human reproduction.

Mosquitoes carry diseases that kill more than 700,000 people every year... but do they deserve a death sentence? On this episode, we discuss a controversial technology called a "gene drive" that could allow us to wipe out disease-carrying mosquitoes. Should we use it? And what could go wrong?

Ever wanted to blast plants with radiation until something interesting happens? In this episode, we teach you how to make an "atomic garden," a product of the crazy-for-radiation 1950s and 1960s. With this technique, you could make giant peanuts, produce a better grapefruit... or just make your neighbors really mad at you.