{"id":7762,"date":"2015-04-12T07:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T07:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2015-12-03T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:36:40","slug":"2015-04-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2015-04-12\/","title":{"rendered":"What Molecular Biology Teaches Us About Being Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Dr. Peter Schattner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>April 12, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter Schattner (an award-winning scientist, educator and writer with over 30 years of research experience in molecular biology, genetics, medical instrumentation and physics) will discuss and answer questions about his recent book &#8220;Sex, Love and DNA&#8221;. The idea of his book is to show how 21st-century molecular biology is beginning to answer age-old questions about the human experience, such as how we make our choices in sex and love, how we communicate, where our emotions come from, and why we age and die. (See www.peterschattner.com)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/125348792\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/125348792\">Humanist Community Forum (2015-04-12): What Molecular Biology Teaches Us About Being Human (Dr. Peter Schattner)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peter Schattner April 12, 2015 Dr. Peter Schattner (an award-winning scientist, educator and writer with over 30 years of research experience in molecular biology, genetics, medical instrumentation and physics) will discuss and answer questions about his recent book &#8220;Sex, Love and DNA&#8221;. The idea of his book is to show how 21st-century molecular biology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2015-04-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Molecular Biology Teaches Us About Being Human&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7852,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions\/7852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}