Genesis

Genesis revisited

December 2 of this year became a memorable day in human history when NASA held a press conference to declare an epoch-making finding. Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a NASA astrobiologist at the US Geological Survey, led a team investigating a bacterium that can sustain its growth by replacing phosphorus with arsenic, an element generally harmful to living organisms. Her report was published online in the ...

Genesis, Retold

While, within the last decades, the atlas has lost its dominance as a medium of spatial representation to digital media, it has recently attracted a significant aesthetic interest. Artists and writers have created books that are explicitly or implicitly linked to the atlas, delving into its history, its epistemological preconditions, and its representational capacity. In this essay, I suggest a...

Genesis of pandemic influenza.

During the last decade the number of reported outbreaks caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in domestic poultry has drastically increased. At the same time, low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) strains, such as H9N2 in many parts of the Middle East and Asia and H6N2 in live bird markets in California, have become endemic. Each AI outbreak brings the concomitant possibility of po...

58 The Genesis Flood

The-genesis of Homosexuality

The . genesis • ;of homosexuality is one of the most interesting problems-in psycho-analysis. The homosexual element is preserrMin ••• some form or otherin. all psycho-neurotics and it -forms a dominant trait'in some -psycho'ses^ A gooddeal of discussion has centered round \ythe problem whether homosexuality is a primary trait and whether the active dr.the passive form is the more primitive one...