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On 25 Jan. the American Book Center will host a virtual panel discussion about the Pilgrim Fathers. Experts will talk about the light and darkness that these radical separatists brought to the New World, from William Brewster’s enlightening library of 400 books, to treaty violations on the part of today’s U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
In her new book The Genesis Machine, co-written with pioneering geneticist Andrew Hessel, futurist Amy Webb presents some bold ideas about procreation and the possibilities and pitfalls of synthetic biology. Webb visited the John Adams in 2017 to discuss her book The Signals Are Talking.