5/24/2023 0 Comments Hacking darwin jamie metzl![]() Marriages between people who have tested positive for the disease were discouraged, and when they do occur, the couples tended to adopt rather than risk having a child born with the disease. ![]() ![]() Remarkably though, since the 1980s, the prevalence of the disease among Ashkenazi Jews has been very low, due to extensive genetic testing and family planning. ![]() About one in twenty seven Ashkenazi Jews carry the Tay-Sachs genes. Sadly, most die in agonizing pain by the age of five. By age 2, children with Tay-Sachs start to experience seizures and decline in mental functioning. Tay-Sachs is a genetic disorder which has devastating effects on the nervous system. A striking example Metzl discusses is the rapid decrease in Tay-Sachs disease in the Ashkenazi jewish community. But “hacking Darwin” had already been occurring earlier due to genetic testing. This set the stage for preimplantation genetic testing, which became popular in the 1990s and widely used today. The first “test-tube baby” was born in 1978. ![]() The fact is, some people are already “hacking Darwin”. This book is an exploration of how we might genetically engineer our children, why we might want to do so, and what the consequences might be. As a happy coincidence, David Wood of the London Futurists recently had Metzl speak to his group, and you can watch a recording of the event here. Our inaugural book review of 2020 covers Hacking Darwin by Jamie Metzl. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Allen ginsberg reads howl![]() ![]() The personal aspects of "Howl" are perhaps as important as the political aspects. Many of the characters Ginsberg references in "Howl", such as Neal Cassady and Herbert Huncke, destroyed themselves through excessive substance abuse or a generally wild lifestyle. The institution refused, giving him many forms of therapy, including electroshock therapy. Solomon wanted to commit suicide, but he thought a form of suicide appropriate to dadaism would be to go to a mental institution and demand a lobotomy. ![]() Solomon was a Dada and Surrealism enthusiast who suffered bouts of clinical depression. Howl, Ginsberg’s first published book, laments what he believed to have been the destruction by the insanity of the “best minds of the generation.” The inspiration for "Howl" was Ginsberg's friend, Carl Solomon, and "Howl" is dedicated to him. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Where's My Cow? by Terry Pratchett![]() ![]() Parents will also enjoy the humour behind Sam silently getting into trouble with Sybil, his wife. Parents and children will enjoy this book together, because the noises the animals make, the discovery of the cow as well as the simple joy in saying all the ‘street noises’ Sam comes up with in his version of the book. While many Pratchett fans love this book, because it means physically holding the same story that the iconic Sam Vimes reads to Young Sam. A book about the place where he’ll grow up.” ![]() ![]() He can think of a more useful book for a boy who lives in a city. There are some things you have to do.It is the most loved and chewed book in the world.īut his father wonders why it is full of moo-cows and baa-lambs when Young Sam will only ever see them cooked on a plate. ![]() “At six o’clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, Sam Vimes must go home to read Where’s My Cow?, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. The synopsis from the Terry Pratchett website goes: Later on it is this daily routine that keeps Vimes tethered to his reality and helps him save the day. But back to “Where’s my cow?”. The main character Sam Vines, Commander of the Watch, rushes home at 6pm everyday to read this book to his son. “ Where’s my cow?” is actually a book from another Pratchett book, “Thud!”. By Terry Pratchett and Illustrated by Melvyn Grant ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The boyfriend project book![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, this book had everything I look for in a good rom-com: witty banter, compatible leads, steamy romance, and a side of strong female friendships. I really appreciated his struggle to figure out how to do the right thing–should he choose his job, or his relationship? I don’t think there was an easy answer! ![]() I loved how these women bonded and came together over the incident, instead of taking their frustration out on each other.ĭaniel was a great male lead. I honestly would’ve liked to see more of Craig getting what was coming to him, but the story took a different turn after Samiah, Taylor, and London became friends. A terrific ending to a series that highlights how strong career women juggle work and relationships in the. Playboy Craig thinks he’s all that, only to get found out and humiliated by these three women? Sign me up for a catfishing storyline. The final book in The Boyfriend Project series. I LOVED the premise at the beginning of this book. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The jade war![]() ![]() The Green Bone clans of honorable jade-wearing warriors once protected the island from foreign invasion–but nowadays, in a bustling post-war metropolis full of fast cars and foreign money, Green Bone families like the Kauls are primarily involved in commerce, construction, and the everyday upkeep of the districts under their protection. ![]() It’s the only place in the world that produces rare magical jade, which grants those with the right training and heritage superhuman abilities. The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates that control the island of Kekon. Anyways, I’m so glad I picked it up because I found a new favourite series. Because believe me, some twitter people have taste. ![]() Everyone I follow on twitter seems to have read and loved Jade City and it sounded interesting, so of course I picked it up. Jade City and Jade War are the first two instalments of the Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee, with Jade Legacy to follow in November. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Drive book daniel pink![]() ![]() * Autonomy- the desire to direct our own lives In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation: He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. ![]() Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.ĭrawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does-and how that affects every aspect of our lives. Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people-at work, at school, at home. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Sátántangó lászló krasznahorkai![]() The panel also comprised Wen-chin Ouyang, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London acclaimed author Nadeem Aslam novelist and critic Elleke Boehmer, who is currently Professor of World Literature in English at Oxford University and Edwin Frank, editorial director of the New York Review Books Classics. The judging panel for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize was chaired by celebrated writer and academic Marina Warner. Seiobo There Below was published in the UK on 7 May by Tuskar Rock Press. ![]() ![]() Krasznahorkai and his translator George Szirtes were longlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Satantango and Krasznahorkai has won the Best Translated Book Award in the US two years in a row, in 2013 for Satantango and in 2014 for Seiobo There Below. In 1993, he received the German Bestenliste Prize for the best literary work of the year for The Melancholy of Resistance and has since been honoured with numerous literary prizes, amongst them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize. ![]() The chair of judges interviews the winner of the £60,000 2015 Prize, who was announced on 19 May in London.īorn in 1954, László Krasznahorkai gained considerable recognition in 1985 when he published Satantango, which he later adapted for the cinema in collaboration with the filmmaker Bela Tarr. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Sick fux book review![]() ![]() I know DOH!!! I love Tillies dark and this is probably the best! I brought this on release and have only just read. ![]() Get on board the cray cray train heading straight to the asylum!!! WOW!! 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Sheryl sandberg novel![]() ![]() ![]() Sheryl received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School. ![]() Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Clinton, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank. She is also the author of the bestsellers Lean In: Women, Work, and the SHERYL SANDBERG is chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the firm's business operations. Sheryl is the co-author of Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy with Wharton professor and bestselling author Adam Grant, which will be released April 24, 2017. ![]() SHERYL SANDBERG is chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the firm's business operations. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Eva luna allende![]() Both Eva Luna and her exceptional mother, Consuelo, possess the ability to recreate the world around them, shaping it so that people never really die and unpleasant events may be restructured. In the character of Eva Luna, Allende adds another element to her usual mix of feminism and social commentary: She explores the nature of storytelling and, to some extent, the nature of reality. Fiction becomes both her reality and her livelihood. ![]() In this novel, Allende experiments with a protagonist whose abilities mimic her own: Eva Luna, like her creator, the Chilean author Allende, is a storyteller. 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