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The Deep Biosocial Roots of Egalitarian Politics
Orientation: Anthropological confirmation of primitive communism When Marx and Engels proclaimed that the first human societies practiced ”primitive communism” they hardly had much company. In the first half of the 20th century two exceptions were the archeologist V. Gordon Childe and later on the anthropologist Leslie White. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s […]
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Combatting Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections
“The Good Virus is the most important documentary film I have seen in years.” Karl Drlica, Prof. of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University New from Bullfrog Films, The Good Virus explores the global efforts of leading scientists combatting one of the most pressing health challenges of our time: the […]
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Biological Devil-ution Rather than Religious Deities Fighting over the Heavens
“Devil-ution,” a function of evolutionary biology explains human unrest much better than notions of deities fighting over the heavens. Religious wars have never relented. Self-anointed demigods have plagued human history, pretending that faith-based blood lines constitute science. However, modern science takes a different tact. Today, psychologists and psychiatrists bemoan the fact that psychopathic megalomaniacs are […]
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What It Means to Be Human
Various domesticated bird species usually run around the farm, including guinea fowl. We love our guinea fowl because they spend their days eating bugs: including ticks, flies, and other noxious pests. Guinea fowl are funny creatures, with colorful bald heads, speckled feathers, long legs, and oddly shaped bodies. We often view them as comic relief […]
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“Childish” Adolescence
Not one to enter discussion on the cultural relevance of television shows often, it is hard to miss the fervour surrounding Netflix’s Adolescence, which recounts the dramatized events surrounding the investigation of a brutal teenage murder of a young female by the protagonist Jamie, a 13-year-old boy. Not wishing to belabour the extent analysis on […]
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Peter Doherty: Public Science Communicator
A lecture series can promise much. But one run out of a corporatised university comes with its own burdens and blemishes. There is the stifling sense of brand and name that hovers over proceedings. The logo is everywhere, a permanent reminder about the role of the chief donor, sponsor or name of the individual associated […]
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Amazon Gets Fresh, Bayer Loves Basmati: Toxic Influences in Indian Agriculture
The citizens of India have a problem. In what the media like to call ‘the world’s biggest democracy’, there is a serious, proven conflict of interest among officials in the areas of science, agriculture and agricultural research that results in privileging the needs of powerful private interests ahead of farmers and ordinary people. This has […]
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The Government’s War on “Backyard” Farms
On the front page of the CDC website is the following headline: Which then opens into the following: Are you ready to give away your chickens? Move from the country? Wear gloves and a mask when caring for backyard chickens? Stop buying eggs from your local farmer or, all of the above? But hold your […]
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Which Came First, the Child or the Embryo?
In high school biology class, students learn that when egg and sperm cells unite, a zygote is immediately formed. The zygote splits into two cells, and those two cells each split again in a process that keeps repeating itself. A few days later, when the zygote is still less than the size of the period […]
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GMOs Will Destroy Indian Agriculture, Which is Non-GMO and Will Harm the Health of 1 Billion Indians and Their Animals
Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union of India’s proposal to commercialise herbicide-tolerant (HT) mustard will destroy not just Indian mustard agriculture but citizens’ health. There have been five days of intense hearings on this […]
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