Pascale Soleil: humanAnimalthe kind of being we areYou can pick your nose, and you can pick your children, and now you can pick your children's nose...- August 27, 2002 In a review of Redesigning Humans the NY Times quotes the author, Gregory Stock: Stock's overarching claim is that germ-line modifications will ''write a new page in the history of life, allowing us to seize control of our evolutionary future,'' an echo of the classic eugenicist dream. New technologies will allow humans to make fundamental alterations to their individual genetic compositions and those of their children. The net effect, he says, will be to draw ''reproduction into a highly...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/08/26.html#a266 Do Both- August 27, 2002 An article in today's New York Times discusses the similarity of results between some forms of "talk therapy" and certain psychotropic drugs. I, for one, am not surprised that both conversation and pills can change the way the brain works. The brain clearly operates on a "use it or lose it" principle all good reasons to keep learning, keep growing, and to keep an open mind.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/08/26.html#a265 I Can See It In Your Face- August 16, 2002 Where does our intuition about others come from Why are some people so much more able to intuit what's on others' minds We are born face-readers. We have to be able to understand basic human expressions in order to survive. But the face gives away much more than we usually assume, and we either never learn the whole array of interpretive strategies or we are trained to discount and overlook them because sometimes it's equally dangerous (socially, emotionally) to know too much. Read this...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/08/16.html#a240 |