I first saw the musical Wicked about seven years ago. I saw it again this weekend having forgotten the story line. Like the X-Men franchise, Wicked includes moral messages about how the mainstream treats those who are visibly different and whether oppression buys victims the right to seek revenge. This time, I left the theater […]
Reader Review #7
Discover Magazine: Grandma’s Experiences Leave Epigenetic Mark on Your Genes (Dan Hurley) Before the 1970s, genes were the fixed limits of life. With DNA as boss and RNA the secretary, combinations of genes produced a certain physiological outcome and it wasn’t clear what made one gene express and another not. But over the last 40 years, through […]
From Milton’s Areopagitica
Sometimes it’s the 400-year-old articles that speak most clearly. John Milton’s Areopagitica, a treatise from the early days of the English parliament, was inspired by a 1643 law that required new books, pamphlets, and papers to be reviewed and licensed by the new English government before publication and reprinted only when approved. In this tract, Milton, […]