Number 12 ~ Spring 2006

Correspondence
Visions of the Future; The Turing Test
Essays
Biotechnology and the Spirit of Capitalism
Eric Cohen on the new commerce of the body
The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology
Jonathan B. Tucker and Raymond A. Zilinskas on regulating designer microbes
The Mislabeled Child
Brock L. Eide and Fernette F. Eide on the failure of kindergarten neurochemistry
The Many Casualties of Cloning
Richard M. Doerflinger on the lessons of the South Korean fraud
Reviews and Reconsiderations
The God Meme
Charles T. Rubin on Daniel Dennett’s unconvincing theory
Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction?
John Derbyshire on Verne’s lesser-known works
Polio Stories
Philip J. Overby on the meaning of a forgotten epidemic
The Age of Female Computers
David Skinner on the burdens of pre-machine mathematics
A Clone’s Lament
James Bowman on life as a useful pre-cadaver







