Because gene expression is profoundly affected by social impacts (both good and bad in terms of health and pathology), these impacts cannot be predicted. Adaptation is to the life of a revolutionary guerrilla living in the jungle, not to that of a peacemaker. Nigel Pocock In his book, Professor Jan […]
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Reports and chronicles to understand the history
Gran told me about my father’s childhood. She recalled how as a child, he took lunch to the workers on the Antioquia Railway. Armando Orozco Tovar Carlos Arango Z was his name and he started working at just six-years-old to help support his family. From Tulúa, in the […]
Vanessa Winship: photographing incertitude
For T.S. Eliot, winter is amnesic and deficient, “covering / Earth in forgetful snow, feeding / A little life with dried tubers”, but in Winship’s “Snow” it is a pregnant time, a waiting period, a meditative season; not the reawakening, the surfeit or the melancholy of a year’s other divisions. […]
Creative new society or a dead tolerance
Taken on its own, the term ‘multicultural society’ has no practical use. It is a non-criticisable and non-falsifiable chameleon that changes its colour with its environment. That is, unless it is made predictable, at least for the purposes of testing. Nigel Pocock We might, for example, wish to […]
The first one who asked my name
He liked to read and write, to reflect on life and his country. From his way of life came his stoicism: he didn’t smoke or drink at a time when puffing smoke out through your nostrils, mouth, eyes and ears, was the fashion, as well as getting drunk as a […]
















