The Unseen Costs of Immortalisation The pursuit of immortality, whether for a pharaoh’s body or a corporation’s data, consistently discounts its most significant long-term costs. We obsess over the object of preservation itself, Read More
The Illusion of Absolute Control Thirty-two individuals, having endured lumbar punctures and a course of powerful antibiotics, discovered their ordeal was for a phantom threat – a deadly germ that never existed. This recent incident in Read More
A New Blueprint for Drug Discovery The discovery of a gene “megacluster” at McMaster University, producing not one, but four molecules that cooperatively target a bacterial pathway, is far more than an exciting scientific footnote Read More