{"623524":{"#nid":"623524","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Stranger Than Sci-Fi","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/yaszek\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was a featured speaker on the first episode of the BBC Radio 4 show, \u0026quot;Stranger Than Sci-Fi,\u0026quot; July 17.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAstro-physicist Dr Jen Gupta and comedian Alice Fraser travel the parallel worlds of science and sci-fi.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStarting with the latest books and films, they discover real life science that sounds too strange to be true - from babies grown in bags, via black hole Jacuzzis, to flowers that behave like our ears.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach programme starts with imagined futures and ends with today\u0026rsquo;s latest scientific research, exploring along the way how each impacts the other. This episode dives into the science behind Anne Charnock\u0026#39;s book, Dreams Before The Start Of Time, which imagines a future where babies can be grown in artificial wombs. How close is modern technology to making this a reality?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe episode can be streamed in its entirety \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0006tm3\u0022\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-07-18 22:18:24","changed_gmt":"2019-07-18 22:25:49","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Georgia Power Research Center","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0006tm3","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602689":{"id":"602689","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek headshot","body":null,"created":"1519228829","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 16:00:29","changed":"1572547412","gmt_changed":"2019-10-31 18:43:32","alt":"Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"229719","name":"LisaYaszek.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LisaYaszek.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LisaYaszek.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":907627,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/LisaYaszek.jpg?itok=M1HH4Yba"}}},"media_ids":["602689"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11021","name":"Lisa Yaszek"},{"id":"17411","name":"BBC"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}