The scary future of synthetic biology
I’ve lived through a millennium of Technology, but this is the first time I feel genuinely fearful of it. This fear comes at a point when the prospect of an Artificial Being is bigger…
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I’ve lived through a millennium of Technology, but this is the first time I feel genuinely fearful of it. This fear comes at a point when the prospect of an Artificial Being is bigger…
The director of a major public health agency in St. Louis openly called on employees to ignore “lunatic fringe” groups and act as authorities at the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA) website’s…
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Are we really in danger of running out of the stuff used to make trillions of things? Can you patent the life found in a petri dish? The idea of synthetic biology might sound…
O’Neill’s The Humans is billed as “a family drama from New York” but it hardly rings true, says Robert Armstrong. “A New York family drama with a British director?” The Humans Richard Eyre Royal…
I teach a course at Ryerson University called “Women, Gender, and Society.” In our opening discussion, a 21-year-old student introduced herself. “I’m a feminist,” she said. “I read books, and I just know I…