A Remarkable Tomb

Design for a Tomb

A design for a tomb does not ordinarily interest anyone but the designer and his client. There is, however, in the Museum Print Department a sixteenth-century tomb drawing of more than ordinary interest, since it presents a puzzle as rich in clues as a detective story. Once folded in half and bound in a scrapbook with the shop drawings of an unidentified atelier, this drawing shows an elaborate...

Burglarizing Nietzsche’s Tomb

This essay analyzes the connection between Nietzsche’s philosophy and contemporary transhumanism, on the basis of his Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy and how it articulated in lateRomantic European culture. Nietzsche’s personal insanity, and the morbidity of the Romantic Movement in general, can serve as a warning of what transhumanism might become if it overemphasizes individualism. Nietzsche’s...

Individualized Medicine from Prewomb to Tomb

That each of us is truly biologically unique, extending to even monozygotic, "identical" twins, is not fully appreciated. Now that it is possible to perform a comprehensive "omic" assessment of an individual, including one's DNA and RNA sequence and at least some characterization of one's proteome, metabolome, microbiome, autoantibodies, and epigenome, it has become abundantly clear that each o...

A Remarkable Monster

A Remarkable History

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