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21. A Sketch for a Socialist Transhumanism
By Sam Phoenix Clarke (@samjphoenix) ‘The chemical or physical inventor is always a Prometheus. There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.’ [1] The life of J. B. S. Haldane gives the impression of a man who made himself at home in his…
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Science in Self-Defence: Doing Science in Public in 1930s Britain
By Sam Phoenix Clarke (@samjphoenix) Britain in the 1930s saw a surge in popular science-writing, with scientists and scientific journalists of all stripes attempting to publicise the revolutionary discoveries of early twentieth-century science. Biologists such as Julian Huxley and John Randal Baker took to radio to popularise the latest discoveries in genetics and the social…
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