Two weeks ago [in 2005], The Sunday Times Magazine published a photo essay by the distinguished photographer Don McCullin on the tribes of the Omo valley in southern Ethiopia.
Articles with Genetics
Mursi Tribe stick fighters • Photo by Rod Waddington (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Frankenfoods?
We don’t hear much about genetically-modified (GM) food in the United States. Farmers produce it, massively. Consumers eat it without complaint. The big agribusiness corporations salt away the profits.
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The evolution of technology
Fourteen years ago, Bill McKibben jolted our environmental awareness with a splendid little book, “The End of Nature,” that cataloged the ways human economic activities are rending the fabric of nature. In particular, he drew our attention to changes in the atmosphere, and to the possibility of global warming.
Human chromosomes • Bolzer et al. (CC BY-2.5)
The historic conflict between X and Y
Has there ever been a more astute observer of the war between the sexes than James Thurber?
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Jury still out on GM food’s effects
Last summer, I bought a prepackaged chocolate cake in a European supermarket. The wrapper proclaimed prominently: NO GM INGREDIENTS. GM, of course, stands for “genetically modified.”
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Where nature and nurture can’t agree
NATURE: Well, my friend, you must admit that I’ve had quite the best of it lately. The human genome has been sequenced. Thousands of human genes have been identified, and hundreds more are sorted out every month. The floodgates are open.
Bahama woodstar • Photo by Under the Same Moon... (CC BY 2.0)
The power behind our invisible cells
For several weeks now I have been living with a pair of hummingbirds — Bahama woodstars, tiny creatures, about the size of my little finger.
Caenorhabditis elegans • Image by Bob Goldstein, UNC Chapel Hill (CC BY-SA 3.0)
A dialogue on a worm
“If you haven’t already met Caenorhabditis elegans, you really should. This little worm…” “Worm?”
A mosquito of the genus Anopheles • Jim Gathany/CDC (Public Domain)
Genetic science tests our wisdom
Malaria kills more than a million people a year, most of them children under the age of 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. Hundreds of millions of people have the disease, in varying degrees of severity.
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Genome is not a map to the human self
“Today we are learning the language in which God created life,” gushed President Bill Clinton. “The first great technological triumph of the 21st century,” purred British Prime Minister Tony Blair.