Tim Radford reassesses the independent scientist’s groundbreaking body of writing. Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence James Lovelock Allen Lane (2019) [He developed] a sustained and developing argument, in the face of […]
Forget the Anthropocene: we’ve entered the synthetic age
An Anthropocene epoch requires one kind of psychological adjustment. A synthetic age demands something considerably more. One fact about our time is becoming increasingly well-known. No matter how far you […]
Biological and Cultural Evolution
Six Characters in Search of an Author An EDGE Original Essay By Freeman Dyson In the near future, we will be in possession of genetic engineering technology which allows us to […]
What Saliva Reveals About North America
Anticipation of the near future gene census to understand the human gene pool as our common wealth. What do you do with 770,000 tubes of saliva collected from over 3 […]