Call Me Ishmael
The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering. This enterprise has proceeded so...
View ArticleLife will find a way, or Silver Screen
Dr. Ian Malcolm: John, the kind of control you’re attempting simply is… it’s not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it’s that life will not be contained. Life...
View ArticleFictional places to go, or Tourist Trap
Fiction is a wonderful place to be, there are so many opportunities for wonder and amazement it’s unsurprising that they offer up a myriad of locations I would love to visit. Choosing just a few of the...
View ArticleWedding music for Grooms, or It’s My Party
When planning the music for mine and the Then Future Mrs G’s wedding we decided that the traditional “Here Comes the Bride” was a bit staid and cliché, so we decided that we should look (or listen) at...
View ArticleJurassic Park, or Bedtime Stories
In 1994 I discovered a book that was to have a profound influence on my life. Prior to reading it I was still very much undecided about what I found interesting in life, I had spent the previous years...
View ArticleI love Dewey Decimal
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero I consider myself to have a larger than median book collection (a rough estimate says between 500-600 books), it fills 3...
View ArticleJurassic Park, or Bedtime Stories
In 1994 I discovered a book that was to have a profound influence on my life. Prior to reading it I was still very much undecided about what I found interesting in life, I had spent the previous years...
View ArticleLife is not a smooth course
Dr. Ian Malcolm: John, the kind of control you’re attempting simply is… it’s not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it’s that life will not be contained. Life breaks...
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