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 […]
Prague: a picturesque survivor
Down the narrow, cobblestoned back-streets beats the heart of a Bohemian nation. Surviving occupations from the Habsburg Empire to the Nazis, Prague is a city whose history is as diverse as the stunning architecture that tells its story. – Georgina Campbell Indulgence in a liberal, unconventional lifestyle defines the […]
Shamima case shows terrible prejudice
Layla Omar from Women of Colour, Global Women’s Strike, says the stripping of Shamima Begum’s British citizenship is Islamophobic. On February 23 Shamima Begum lost her appeal against the government’s decision to remove her British citizenship. This is despite the judge conceding that she was probably groomed and trafficked […]
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. […]
















