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Done in 23 panes (as in the # of chromosomes). The artist takes to the Three Fs school of history: fighting, fashion, and fucking. Ladies are there to be ogled and make babies, non-Western cultures are static, and science and tech are there to enable the three [...]
J. Hughes sends along an interesting addendum to yesterday’s post:
She’s the perfect woman, distilled from 40 other women, in 1898.
R.U. Sirius’ best of 2009 list, I felt, was missing one critical piece: the Iranian Green Revolution. It isn’t over yet and it may not be a success in its current iteration, but remains one of the best proofs of the power of communication technology to undermine a brutal regime. The beauty of the [...]
The Renaissance was so awesome. I mean that in the OED version of “awesome:” terrifying and almost impossible to process in terms of scale, grandeur, and importance; sublime. A quotation from Richard Tarnas’ The Passion of the Western Mind:
The same two decades (1468-88) that saw the Florentine Academy’s Neoplatonic revival at its height during [...]
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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.
Kyle's writing can also be found at Discover's The Crux, Slate's Future Tense, and at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. For questions or comments: comments [at] popbioethics [dot] com
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