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Related: Wariness of the genetic revolution, by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times.
Earlier in this weblog: the geography of genetic research (second item here)
Related from B&C:
Interview with Francis Fukuyama, author of Our Posthuman Future
Interview with bioethics expert Lori Andrews
(see also this article by Andrews in Christianity Today)
Review of the book The Spirit in the Gene
Review of "Should We Change our Genes?" a lecture by ethics professor James C. Peterson in Calvin College's January Series.
From the Washington Post:
MADRID — For a glimpse of Europe's young generation on the move and the future of the borderless continent, head to the late-partying Spanish capital, drink a strong shot of coffee and try to keep up with Stina Lunden, a 25-year-old Swedish transplant. Lunden is part of the new "Generation E"—E for Europe, a continent that has been essentially without borders for most of Lunden's and her peers' adult lives. For them, traveling from Sweden to Spain is about as simple as it is for an American college student to take a spring break drive from the Northeast to Florida. While bureaucrats in Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, toil away at highly technical regulations aimed at forging a single, more integrated Europe …. educated young people like Lunden are traveling farther from home, crossing borders to study and work, learning more languages, building cross-cultural friendships—and chipping away at the old national stereotypes and animosities of their parents' generation. Full story
HONOLULU — The grave robbery occurred nearly a century ago, a brazen incursion into a burial cave of ancestral Hawaiians. But its legacy of intrigue and deceit still haunts Hawaii today, and has ignited a renewed struggle over the fate of the stolen artifacts. The artifacts, considered sacred by some Hawaiians, were taken from the cave by an antiquities buff in 1905… . [and] spent nearly a century in Honolulu's prestigious Bishop Museum until three years ago, when they were spirited away for reburial. Today, the museum and several Hawaiian native groups are vying for control of the cache in a controversy that also spotlights a debate over how to treat archaeological items that have spiritual significance, as well as cultural, historical and educational importance. The question is whether the relics should remain in the remote cave, reunited with the presumed remains of Hawaiian chiefs on the Big Island of Hawaii; or be turned over to the museum. Full story
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- New York Times Book Review cover story on George Marsden's Jonathan Edwards .*
- Reissued biography illumines Erasmus' role in the Reformation, says the Yale Review of Books.
- Mountain climbing loses its religion, from the NYT.*
- Textured biography of John Winthrop, from the Boston Globe.
- Thomas Carlyle: how not to have a marriage, from the Atlantic Monthly.
- The science of sleep, from the Times Literary Supplement.
- Insects as integral cogs in the global ecosystem, from the Boston Globe.
- Unsolved mysteries in mathematics, from the NYT.*
- The plight of writers in Sierra Leone, from the London Guardian.
- Glib but unblinking look at the fate of cadavers, from the London Spectator.
- Rich study of the rise of Western Christendom, says the Washington Post.
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