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Is God All In Your Genes?

Dan wrote 2 months ago: Is religion something that can be determined by your genes as some scientists and philosophers have … more →

Tags: Science, humour, John Cleese, Genetics

SATURDAY, & The Moon-Blanched Infarct

B.L. wrote 7 months ago: Inside its borders, having for years gone unnoticed, the delinquent gene now keys the security syste … more →

Tags: Medicine and Literature, Saturday, Arnold, Huntington's Disease, Ian McEwan, lemonade, Mercedes, Writer's Block

Genealogies and Critical Distance

michaelalijewicz wrote 8 months ago: John Dupre’s lunch seminar on Genomes and Genetics was an invaluable opportunity to see a crit … more →

Tags: Genetic engineering, Medicine and Literature, science and humanities, Darwin, Nietzsche, genealogy, John Dupré, Regenia Gagnier

Is the Genetic Code Bourgeois?

matteatough wrote 8 months ago: Richard Powers’ novel The Gold Bug Variations seems to contain a moral for those aspiring scientists … more →

Tags: Evolution, Double Helix, Darwin, Gender, Gold Bug Variations, richard powers, bourgeois, heteronormativity, The Gold Bug Variations

My Posse is Encoded

Tom Daly wrote 9 months ago: It appears that those I know, associate with and generally consider my “friends and colleagues” have … more →

Tags: diffusion of innovation, genes, Social Networks

Heredity in The Legacy of Cain from a historical perspective2 comments

coreykalbaugh wrote 10 months ago: The title of the novel, Legacy of Cain, interested me at the outset.  Cain is, of course, remembered … more →

Tags: science and humanities, Legacy of Cain, heredity, legacy of cain, profession, Victorian, Literature

First PGD BRCA1 baby born in UK9 comments

Spirit of our Time wrote 10 months ago: As the BBC has reported here, the first baby has been born in the UK whose birth was a function of p … more →

Tags: Bioethics, BioSci & Philosophy, Development Genetics, Differential treatment, enhancement, Eugenics, Families, Human Futures, Medical Interventions

Genetically Manufactured Foods Attack Your Indigenous Right To Health and Wellness 1 comment

wisescribe wrote 1 year ago: The definition of biotechnology given by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development d … more →

Tags: Think "Green", Big Pharma, Big Agri, big chem, GMO, Epigenetics, Codex Alimentarius, morgellon's disease, GM food

Gattaca (1997)

Phil wrote 1 year ago: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ - What is Predictive Programming? - Alan Watt – Predictiv … more →

Tags: Predictive Programming, Alan Watt, Alternative Media, Andrew Niccol, Artificial Conception, Brainwashing, Brave New World, bruce lipton, Caste System

Can we rebel against our genes?2 comments

soulbiscuit wrote 1 year ago: RichardDawkins.net has recently posted a speech by Professor Dawkins at something called the New Sci … more →

Tags: Conservation, Evolution, RIchard Dawkins, Selfish Gene, natural selection, selfishness, sustainability, rebelling against our genes

Morality & Determinism1 comment

AM^2 wrote 1 year ago: As Prof. Clayton has pointed out, the repeated theme in all of the novels that we have read and film … more →

Tags: science and humanities, Religion and genetics, White Teeth, anthropology and biology

Evolution of Determinism

b2majmudar wrote 1 year ago: It strikes me as really interesting how the idea of determinism has evolved over the centuries. Back … more →

Tags: Nature vs Nurture

Expectation v. Reality1 comment

b2majmudar wrote 1 year ago: I had been thinking about everything we’ve read and talked about, and I realized that there’s a real … more →

Tags: Genetic engineering, Martha Nussbaum

Matter(s) in the news

Angela wrote 2 years ago: Originally I wanted to write about something else today, but something is distracting me from this. … more →

Tags: Thoughts on matter, Matter, DNA


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