Which makes sense, of course, given the enormous amount of influence our gestational environment can have on our genetic expression. 80 beats has the story:
Says lead researcher Carmen Sapienza said “By and large these children are just fine, it’s not like they have extra arms or extra heads, but they have a small [...]
I really, really like the show Glee. I like it because it stops pretending that people who live in small cities in western and mid-western states are somehow more wholesome than their metropolitan counterparts. I like it because it exposes the high school ruling class for the terrified, soon-to-be-townie losers they usually [...]
Malcolm Gladwell’s beat down by Steven Pinker seemed to keep popping up in conversation last week. Anissimov has been tracking the back and forth, I saw Outliers on my friend Drea’s bookshelf, and Alex and I chattered about Gladwell vs. Pinker between mouthfuls of Indian food. Why does this guy, whose clever, but [...]
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Pop Bioethics, written by Kyle Munkittrick, is an effort to study the ethics of the continuing evolution of the human species via the lens of pop culture and be somewhat entertaining in the process.
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