Humans

An economist and journalist attempts to understand how risk management looks in the workplace outside the world of finance.

For most of recent human history, we’ve opted for burial and cremation. Washington State residents now have a new green option: human composting — also known as natural organic reduction.

Producer Bob Carty has the third part of his series, Generation Next: Remaking the Human Race. This segment examines the benefits and consequences of melding man with machine to create cyborgs – people with bodies aided or controlled by technical devices. For modern science, the cyborg is presenting some exciting, and also disturbing, possibilities.

Some biologists believe that we are now in the midst of what they call ?the sixth extinction??the sixth time in the history of the earth when a devastating mass extinction has occurred. Elizabeth Kolbert joins The Takeaway to explain.