Sublime

Essays on health technologies and Silicon Valley’s obsession with engineering bodies and minds, from the critic formerly known as “ed-tech’s Cassandra”

Kat Arney sets out to understand how our genes work and, as her book title suggests, this is not going to be an easy task. She takes us on a journey, quite literally, as she flits across the world to meet a variety of geneticists, from those at the heart of the major genetic discoveries of the last century to those at the cutting edge of genetics t... See more

Returning to Montagnier’s experiment, we find that his use of the same natural energy waves of the Earth was critical to his success. Eighteen hours later, Montagnier’s two test tubes, one with the tiny piece of bacterial DNA and the other of the pure water, were examined. What was observed was remarkable, shocking nearly all ‘mainstream’ scientist

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So why do runners have limits? And why do the limits differ from one person to the next? In part, it's because of physiological factors: blood oxygen levels, lactate, muscular strength, each of which has a genetic component. But there's another theory, put forward by a sports physiologist named Tim Noakes. As he puts it, in what he calls the centra... See more

In understandable language, Richard J. Haier explains cutting-edge techniques based on genetics, DNA, and imaging of brain connectivity and function.