Sublime

If we can learn about human cognition, behaviour and pathology by studying insects, how does this blur the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’?

The sound of sudden inhalation followed, like water being sucked down a drain. I caught a glimpse of a pinkish gray hump before it vanished beneath the murky surface. “Boto,” said Soldado as he tossed his cigarette butt over the railing. The legendary Amazonian river dolphin. It surfaced again, and this time the animal sprayed water ten feet into

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If a mitochondrion slightly fumbles the incredibly complex chemistry behind producing power safely, it can create a “free radical”—a highly reactive chemical which can go on to cause chaos in the cell, damaging proteins, DNA, and any other critical molecules it comes across. Three of the most biologically important free radicals are OH, NO and

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In this age of utopian technologies, we can design mechanical limbs for amputees and chemically engineer happiness for depressives. But should we? From the fluoride in our water to genetically modified babies, scientific advances pose complex new ethical questions. We ask discuss the major bioethical issues of our time. Is philosophy braced for... See more

The neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard

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To be fair, I don’t think they can “clean up their community”, given that their preferred area of HBD research can only pretty much only have negative outcomes for society as a whole.

I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply... See more