Editorial notes: This Essay was found as a ‘draft’ entry in Everything2. It was last updated on 17/04/2013. Here’s an idea: What if a conspiracy does not need its members to be knowing participants? What next? We could go ahead and define a type of conspiracies as being those entities whose members are unknowing participants (MaUPs) – and these we can call m-conspiracies...
I have two small embryos preserved in alcohol, that I forgot to label. At present I am unable to determine the genus to which they belong. They may be lizards, small birds, or even mammals. Karl von Baer (1828) The changes undergone by a developing embryo forms an hourglass: early on embryos from different species vary significantly, later on, they converge to be similar, and finally, they...
Bipolar is often treated with lithium… If the bipolar lifestyle is a rollercoaster ride, then lithium is one of the more established seatbelts available. Lithium is considered the gold standard treatment for bipolar. While it is not as effective in the treatment of acute depression, it is very effective for acute mania as well as for maintaining stability. Technically lithium is just...
People are strange, when you’re a stranger The Doors – People Are Strange We’re born into a world submerged in strangers. They – the strangers – are everywhere, doing so many different things, and we know almost nothing about them. Looking around, we realize that we live between the cogs of an impersonal, gigantic clockwork; and yet, we’re social creatures...
I’m on a plane with cocaine, And yes I’m all lit up again[I]. The mystery of cocaine. When not applying his exacting mind to the mysteries of tenuous circumstances, the fine detective of Baker Street would dispel the tedium that surrounded him with cocaine injections. Solving crimes and cruising coke channels describe an enviable lifestyle! Both activities would be expected to have...
Editorial notes: Autobiography? The journey is not a destination Sleep-deprived – a night of seizures, lost large-breasted woman, and saviour-Nazi’s – we got up to prods and threats. A random corner of the room was chosen, swept up, and stuffed into duffle bags. We were as ready for Adelaide as we’d ever been. Into the car; rushing back inside to collect the ever-necessary...
Thomas Aquinas spent the last twenty years of his life writing the famous Summa Theologica; a guide to the divine. The Summa included the quinque viae, the “five ways” by which the existence of God can be proved. A few months before his death, Aquinas stopped writing. When begged to continue he only said, “All that I have written seems as straw to me.” The Unmoved Mover:...
Any man who has fallen never stood securely (I poem 1) Whenever I think of the variegation of human lives I think of Boethius in his cell drafting and commiserating his own misfortune. Background: Boethius was born 476CE around the time that the last Western Roman Emperor was being overthrown. In 493 the leadership changed again as the Ostrogoths took over under Theodoric the Great, whom Boethius...
Editorial notes: This Book Review was found as a ‘draft’ entry in Everything2. It was last updated on 03/05/2011. Away in the big city, people still sometimes glance up hopefully from the sidewalks, glimpsing a distant speck in the sky… but no: it’s only a bird, only a plane. Superman died ten years ago. This is an imaginary story. Aren’t they all? Whatever Happened...
Editorial notes: This Essay was found as a ‘draft’ entry in Everything2. It was last updated on 03/05/2011. To me, molecular biology is that part of biology that is concerned with the molecules that make up biological systems. It is concerned with those molecules’ lives, and the way they interact with each other. It manipulates molecules to test hypotheses. Although it may look...
