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when i was a little girl[1] and learned about crispr in biology class it immediately became my dream to get pregnant and crispr my own fetus, my body my choice they cant stop me. i was weirdly serious about this until i hit college and realized doing any bio related research would involve undue amounts of pipetting (which i hate) and not enough math (which i love).
you're right - AI has overtaken all of the discussion and we have forgotten about how cool genetic modification can be. i am sure biologists are still plugging away at interesting genetic modific...
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i recently read 'waterland' by graham smith and it had some fun descriptions of land reclamation. biggest point i got from it was that land reclamation is an ongoing process- the waters want to bring their swamp back.
i'm caught between being a proponent of any land development project, and being annoyed that we're trying to take land back from the water instead of from parking lots. i totally get the utility of land reclamation, especially with climate change, and how ports are a wonderful thing to have! (water transport is so efficient and we need m...
i used 2 feel this way about nuclear war. i spent a summer being really stressed about total nuclear annihilation. i believe the line of thought that mostly got me out of the spiral was that i am alive until i am dead, anything that happens once i am dead does not matter, as i will be dead and there is nothing i can do about it. if nuclear war does come and i am alive, i will deal with it when it comes. i trust in society 2 pull 2gether 2 find a solution. for now, it hasnt happened yet, so i dont care. also i got busy with things outside of my own head. th... (read more)