Also, in case you missed them, The New Atlantis has published a number of articles in recent issues that may be of interest to readers of this blog:
- What Is the Body Worth? – by yours truly, on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, various factual errors therein, and the bad case for human tissue markets
- Love, Yiddish, and the Problem of Bioethics – Darren J. Beattie on science and our erotic longing for knowledge
- Paid Parenthood – Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill on why people sell their eggs and sperm
- The Population Control Holocaust – Robert Zubrin reveals the international campaign of coerced sterilization and abortion
- The Truth About Human Nature – Lee Perlman on imagination, rationality, and honesty in Gulliver’s Travels
- The Stem Cell Debates: Lessons for Science and Politics – a special issue of the journal, dedicated to an updated report on stem cell research and an analysis of the debate over it
- The Global War Against Baby Girls – Nicholas Eberstadt on the mounting casualties of sex-selective abortion
- Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness – Stephen L. Talbott on survival, fitness, and the purposiveness of organisms
- What Consciousness Is Not – Raymond Tallis unwinds the work of David Chalmers, philosopher of mind
- A Far Other Butterfly – Wilfred M. McClay on “The Artist of the Beautiful” and the meeting of the spiritual and material realms
Futurisms
August 20, 2012
