the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...

Margaret Atwood’s recent dystopian novel The Testaments (2019) revisits Handmaid’s Tale by depicturing Gilead’s nightmarish world of the patriarchal order, which is established especially against women’s potency. sequel reminds contemporary readers Offred and her miseries who told categorised women Gilead functioning as Wives, Handmaids, Marthas. This time, with three different female figures, ...

EALTH IS A GOOD THAT IS ALMOST UNIVERSALLY DESIRED. IT IS NOT ONLY INstrumental to obtaining many other goods of life, it seems good in itself. Indeed, in most western cultures, health has become a virtual cultural obsession, resulting in steadily growing demands on health care systems and in burgeoning industries in wellness and alternative medicine. In the United States alone, billions of dol...

I relate a story of genesis told from the point of view of multi-subunit RNA polymerases (RNAPs) including an Old Testament (core RNAP motifs in all cellular life) and a New Testament (the RNAP II heptad repeat carboxy terminal domain (CTD) and CTD interactome in eukarya). The Old Testament: at their active site, one class of eukaryotic interfering RNAP and ubiquitous multi-subunit RNAPs each h...