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CRISPR: a hot new molecular biology tool

CRISPR is a hot new molecular biology tool, that you may have heard of, because everybody is using it to edit genomes, to...

05 February, 2017

My slave has run away — nay, it is I that have got away free!

Let us pass now to the matter of fortunes, which are the greatest source of human sorrow; for if you compare all the...

31 January, 2017

If I could live my life again.

This poem is believed to have been written either by an American poet, Nadine Stair or Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), an Argentine poet.   If...

30 January, 2017

Empedocles

Empedocles (/ɛmˈpɛdəkliːz/; Greek: Ἐμπεδοκλῆς [empedoklɛ̂ːs], Empedoklēs; c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Acragas (Agrigentum),...

13 January, 2017

Wings are for Flying

That day, Jorge had a story ready for me. When he got older, his father said to him: -My son: not everyone is born with...

09 January, 2017

«A poem to Friends»

I cannot give you solutions to all life’s problems, Nor do I have answers to your doubts or fears But I can listen to you and share it...

05 January, 2017

We all need each other.

As the girl grew, no one in the land was more happy than she. Whenever anyone asked her for the secret of her...

24 December, 2016

The Nurse and the Wolf

"Be quiet now," said an old Nurse to a child sitting on her lap. "If you make that noise again I will throw...

23 December, 2016

Natural philosophy

Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) was the philosophical study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant...

18 December, 2016

Morning Sea

Here let me stop. Let me too look at Nature for a while. The morning sea and cloudless sky a brilliant blue, the yellow shore;...

15 December, 2016