Daily Archive: April 9, 2017
Finding the Achilles Heel(Last part of the emperor of all maladies) This episode picks up the story at another moment of buoyant optimism in the cancer world: Scientists believe they have cracked the essential mystery of the malignant cell and the first targeted therapies have been developed, with...
“Have you ever been to the Cluny, the museum? There you will see Persian carpets of the most exquisite hue and of a pattern the beautiful intricacy of which delights and amazes the eye. In them you will see the mystery and the sensual beauty of the East,...
In the face of what appears to be a blindly indifferent universe, Dawkins argues that we each have to forge our own sense of meaning. For Dawkins, it is the awe and wonder in scientific enquiry – from the human genome to the quest for the Higgs Boson...