Topics includeabout great grandchildren (and pleasures of life in ones 80s), contemporary social arrangements (sperm donors, single mothers), the science of developing fetuses (gender determination and PC, male models in Vogue), developments in medical science (predicting illness and determining treatments determination through DNA, artificial limbs made of tissue, computer chips and the brain, bioweapons (the use of tiny drones in spying, protection of the President's DNA by the Secret Service, collecting DNA from enemies), design of airline cabins, a personal experience of treatment in two contrasting Chinese hospitals, Skype, a Chinese friend's U.S. grant for a longitudinal study, Chinese humor.