Monthly Archives: May 2015
Make Meat Special
Feeling carnivorous or vegetarian, or somewhere in-between? Is it okay to be carnivorous? Is it natural (whatever that means)? I asked these questions when I was a teenager, like many other people who love animals. For a while I half-heartedly … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical, Environment
Tagged carnivore, dietary calories, Elsie Widdowson, grass fed beef, paleo diet, price of meat
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Virginia Nature Journal for April
Smells arouse old memories, good and bad. The coconut bouquet of prickly gorse bushes evokes memories of ranks of jasmine blossom on the chalky downs of the Isle of Wight where I was born and Algy Swinburne grew up. Oh, … Continue reading
Posted in Other, Seasons in Virginia
Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Birding, bluebirds, nest-boxes, Virginia Bluebird Society
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GM Human Eggs Have Arrived
We heard confirmation last week of rumors that scientists at Sun Yat-sen University in southern China were trying to change the DNA of freshly-fertilized human eggs. This “first” in science was greeted with horror, hand-wringing, and a storm of criticism. … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical
Tagged CRISPR, designer babies, eggs and embryos, eugenics, gene therapy, genetically modification, GM babies, In Vitro Fertilization, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Sun Yat-sen University
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 