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Steve: You would have loved to have studied the Van Arsdale twins—remember them? Flynn: I probably would have, yes; I have heard of them. Now let's take IQ gains over time; basketball ov...

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Moyer: And yet we've been modern for quite a while now… Flynn: Well I did a study; in the new book I have a study and it was very frustrating. I said, "I'm going to divide the IQ tests i...

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Flynn: It may be that their analytical abilities are used mainly at work and while at work, they get much more analytic exercise than the average person; after work that diminishes. Or it could...

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Flynn: Block designs are, sort of, a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. And there had been very small gains on vocabulary, general information and arithmetical reasoning. The adult data that I no...

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Moyer: And what's the big change in this book, since your original book? Flynn: Well, one of the big surprises is that in Scandinavia, the IQ gains tailed off towards the end of the last...

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Steve: And then when the biologists come up with different possible scenarios for how life could be, then you can tune your instruments in different ways to look for alternatives to Earth-lik...

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Steve: Because life is really tenacious. Sasselov: Yeah. Steve: You talk in the book about the effect that synthetic biology, we'll call it—you call it various things and ...

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Steve: And on a simpler level, as you point out in the book, let's say the Earth flew out of its orbit, and was just passing through the galaxy untethered to a star; the surface life would al...