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The Moral Code of Babies: Hardwiring Good and Evil

We know babies are born selfish and power-seeking — and we’ve met the Kindergarten Contract Killers.  Now we turn our frightened, Panopticonic, eye to the scientific notion that babies are embedded with a moral code:  They are born knowing the difference between good and evil.

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UC Berkeley Requires Freshman DNA Samples

In a strange, and somewhat unsettling, want to welcome Freshman and transfer students — while also, it seems, starting their own private human genome database of admitted genius thinkers — UC Berkeley is requiring the collection of DNA samples.


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Primate DNA and the End of Inoperable Cancer

Are we able to stand up and dance for joy yet that primate DNA might eradicate illness while inoperable cancer might be a thing of the past?

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Nicholas Hughes as Genetic Suicide

Do we kill ourselves because of an involuntary dedication to the cause found in our DNA?  If you look at the sad and sorry life of Nicholas Hughes, you begin to ponder the undeniable mandate of predestiny.

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Rendition and Changes in Gene Inheritance

If DNA is hardware of a cell, can the “software” in the cell be used to cause a genetic hardware malfunction in the essence of the DNA strings?  The Baylor College of Medicine has been working on identifying the power of “cellular software flaws” and their adverse effect on the body.

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