Little Beast

What rough beast?

Synthetic biology seeks to create modular biological parts that can be assembled into useful devices, allowing the modification of biological systems with greater reliability, at lower cost, with greater speed, and by a larger pool of people than has been the case with traditional genetic engineering. We assess the offensive and defensive security implications of synthetic biology based on the ...

Beauty and the Beast

Is it really true that “All Scripture is inspired by God?” (2 Ti 3:16). Some feminist theologians argue that the Bible is nothing but male-centered works that are critically tainted with androcentrism. Nevertheless, the belief that the Bible was written completely by the revelation of God has legalized that the rights of women have been oppressed by the biased Christian doctrines. Today feminis...

Taming the Beast Within

Beauty versus the beast

Suspend belief for the next two minutes and imagine that you own a Ferrari Testarossada gleaming red marvel; the marriage of art and engineering. You and this breathtaking morsel of mechanistic beauty have been together for so long that you can’t remember a time when you were not as one. You know each other intimately. Or do you? One Sunday afternoon as you snake along the chicanes of a high mo...

The Beauty and the Beast

This paper presents a method for programming window-based I/O in a pure functional language. This method enables the programmer to specify interactions at a very high level of abstraction. It employs a machine independent declarative specification of devices such as windows, dialogues and menus. These devices are specified via predefined algebraic data types containing event handlers (user defi...