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getting started. >> dana: lets get to alexis mcadams live at newark airport in new jersey. how is it going? >> not so bad right now. a lot better than it has been since saturday and sunday where some of the people ive been talking to have been sleeping at the floor at airports across the east coast trying to get home. we checked with airlines to see how they are doing. things arent back to 100% and entering the busy time for the july 4th holiday weekend. as we mentioned people have not...

stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around us any more if they did not. they wouldnt be around us any more if they didnt. the mouse that didnt care about surviving wouldnt pass on its genes. so we come for from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep goi...

which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. one of the key drivers of human thought and behaviour throughout history has been knowledge of our own mortality. from childhood each of us knows we will die. religion, philosophy and science all wrestle with that fact and have in different ways embraced the quest for immortality. my guess today, stephen cave, director of the cambridge institute for technology and humanity is at the centre of a growing deba...

stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they wouldnt be around us any more if they didnt. the mouse that didnt care about surviving wouldnt pass on its genes. so we come from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going. but we have these big brains, thats part of our surviv...

of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they wouldnt be around us any more if they didnt. the mouse that didnt care about surviving wouldnt pass on its genes. so we come from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going. but we have these big brains, thats part of our survival mechanism, if you like, that allow us to see the future, to generalise. and were conscious of ourselves as individua...

is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around as if they did not. the mountain did not care about surviving would not pass on genes. we come for from a long line of creatures that determined to keep going but we have these big brands tha...

stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they wouldnt be around us any more if they didnt. the mouse that didnt care about surviving wouldnt pass on its genes. so we come from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going. but we have these big brains, thats part of our surviv...

part of this is the way money has been shredded out of local government having the money to repair potholes and the first placed. i look at the budget and weep for my colleagues in the difficult choices they have to make. it is labour councils were spending more money fixing potholes than conservative council so it is also about priorities. it is true. we will come onto that in a moment. i think it reflects what people want us to talk about parliament, everyday challenges. you go over ...

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