- Nov 07, 2020
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- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial processes. Unlike fossil fuels, they carry chemical programming which drives complex reactions, are renewable, and work at ordinary pressures and temperatures.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing ideas of even what nature is, much less how it should work.
- Columns
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fandom grew first through individual correspondence. It was cheap and quick, continent-wide contact for a penny stamp.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtuality - connection without proximity - is a major attraction in both fandom and the Net. Nobody knows you're a dog through the U.S. mail, either. Fans could be utterly different in their fanzine persona, which may be why both fandom and the Net were invented by individualistic Americans.
- Columns
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- Nov 07, 2020
As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What will it mean when we can be sure we're not all born equal? Worked out, the implications will scare a lot of people. Insurance companies will not want to cover those with a genetic predisposition to illness, for example. Here lurk myriad lawsuits.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020