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b'If\\xa0there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum on October 27th, 2012, this two-part special broadcast of Big Picture Science separates fact from fiction in doomsday prediction.\\nIn this second episode: a global viral pandemic \\u2026 climate change \\u2026 and the threat of assimilation by super-intelligent machines.\\nPresented as part of the Bay Area Science Festival.\\nFind out more about our guests and their work.\\nGuests:\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Kirsten Gilardi \\u2013 Wildlife veterinarian at the University of California, Davis. leader of the Gorilla Doctors program, and team leader for the US-AID Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT program\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Ken Caldeira \\u2013 Climate scientist, Carnegie Intuition for Science at Stanford University\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Luke Muehlhauser \\u2013 Executive Director of the Singularity Institute\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Bradley Voytek \\u2013 Neuroscience researcher at the University of California, San Francisco\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'