Life Animal/human 'cybrid' embryos get the OK Don't say hybrid: say cybrid. That's the new name for an embryo created by combining genetic material from humans with eggs from other animals, most likely rabbits or cows. The terminology could help sidestep the UK's ban on the creation of embryos containing both animal and human genes – and it seems to be working. … 51¶¯Âþ
The creationist museum of misinformation AN INTERESTING cultural experiment is taking place in Petersburg, Kentucky. It will shed light on the following question: how much money and glitz does it take to institutionalise a lie about science? Of course, "buying" reality is not a new idea, especially in politics. Nor are institutional attacks on science, from the Nazi campaign against … Opinion
Life Ideas: the lifeblood of cities The architect Frank Lloyd Wright compared cities to living organisms "How in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city," said the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in a 1904 speech. He proceeded to elaborate on his metaphor of a city as a living organism: … Features
Life The word: Arribada THE beach is totally deserted. Suddenly, and seemingly out of nowhere, reptiles emerge in their thousands from the sea, clambering onto the sand. A few days later, they're gone again. It's cited as one of the most spectacular manifestations of reptile life anywhere: the arribada. Reptiles emerge in their thousands from the sea Arribada is … Regulars
Health Cancer Activism: Gender, media and public policy by Karen Kedrowski and Marilyn Stine Sarow Books & Arts
Feedback Snake from outer space SPOTTED by Ian Lewis in the London Daily Mail 's recent report on a dead 6-metre python discovered by a path in the north of England: "Baffled police are trying to find out how the fully grown reptile wound up in the village of Cloughton near Scarborough, a million miles from … Regulars