Dartmouth Nowtakes note when faculty members weigh in on issues of the day. Here is today’s “Quoted”: “It is the world of the future, and we must have some control over where it’s going. But how?” asks Professor Marcelo Gleiser about the world of synthetic biology, in his latest post for the NPR 13.7 Cosmos & Culture blog. Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy.