Here is the Genesis Nov Science update. It has several articles pertinent to ecofeminism about estrogens, the historical roots of ecocrisis, feminism and science. Nuclear and genetic technology issues. Biocosmology. Inflation. etc. <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 2.0 Mac"> <TITLE>Genesis November 98</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H2 ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genesis.htm%0A"> Genesis of Eden</A> Science Update Nov 13 1998</H2> <H2><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genes.htm" >genes.htm</A></H2> <P><B>Cloning:</B></P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genaug/cow clon.htm#anchor734933"><B><FONT SIZE=-1>Update on herd cloning</FONT></B></A><FONT SIZE=-1> Jan 98 </FONT><B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genaug/cow clon.htm#anchor97312">Cloned clones</A></B> multiple cloning <B>Oct 98</B> <LI><B>Holstein Cows from milk Nov 98</B> Japanese scientists have cloned three embryos from nuclei from mammary gland cells from cows milk implanted into unfertilized ova. </UL> <P><B>Politics and Ethics of Genetic Technology:</B></P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genaug/eth ics.htm#anchor59159"><B>Ethical Dilemmas</B></A> NS <B>Oct 98</B> </UL> <P><B>Foetal Cell Transplants:</B></P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genaug/abo rr.htm#anchor109506"><B>Culturing New Life</B></A> Stem Cells in Gene Therapy <B>Jun 98</B> </UL> <P>A new key ethical question is human <B>germ-line engineering</B>. Because gene therapy is relatively unsuccessful, requiring mass uptake of DNA by whole tissues of cells, the original declared taboo on germ-line engineering has begun to crumble. Germ-line engineering gives promise to those with deadly genetic deficiencies that they could have healthy offspring. But with it germ-line engineering brings with it the potential to make an immortal mistake, which may not be able to be undone. It also has very deep implications of rthe evolutionary stability of the human genome. Extyensive genetic manipulation of the human germ-line could lead to humanity itself becoming unviable through its native versatility being designed out of the system. A deep and penetrating ethical discussion needs to take place in human society about this issue.</P> <P>This is really the knife in the watter of gene tech. We simply don't know how much the individual genes making up the human genome are interactive. Articles are already appearing suggestin gthat in 20 years we will no longer need dentists (dentistry magazine) because future humans will be engineered to have flawless teeth. However we have no idea how much such changes could subtly or grossly change the nature of other characteristics. For example a <A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/renewal/renewal. htm#anchor40453">sexually imprinted</A> gene for mothering inherited through the father also has subtle effects on body size and other aspects of physiology and behaviour. We could lose a vartiety of essential characteristics such as imagination, visionary or even psychic facilities which are extremely hard to quantify. Furthermore there are immediate eugenic implications which are sinister and serious. Where will society draw the line in attempting to engineer out 'undesirable' characteristics in bringing about the genetic conformity of "Brave New World".</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genaug/eth ics.htm#anchor293580"><B>Tomorrows Children Germ-line engineering</B></A> Nov 98 <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genaug/eth ics.htm#anchor252543"><B>Evolution Extinguished</B></A> Oct 98 </UL> <P> </P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genaug/ter m1.htm#anchor1346545"><B>News Articles</B> </A>on the <B>Terminator Gene</B> </UL> <H2><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/renewal/renewal. htm">renewal.htm</A></H2> <P>Without being unduly pessimistic, ...That is the reality.</P> <P><B>Enforced feminization by estrogen pollution:<BR> </B>Here is how not do do the Renewal. Business as usual followed by estrogen pollution of the environment followed by sexual abnormalities resulting in the dominance of the female gender.</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/e str.htm#anchor115760"><B>The Feminization of Nature</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/e str.htm#anchor117296"><B>Our Stolen Future</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor3362226"><B>Where have all the sperm gone?</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor79000"><B>Where have all the boys gone?</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/e str.htm#anchor114379"><B>Estrogens in utero and breast cancer</B></A><B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor79000"> </A></B> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/saceve. htm#anchor86912"><B>Where have all the frogs gone?</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor3361285"><B>Confused fish</B></A> </UL> <H2><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/renewal/voices.h tm">voices.htm</A></H2> <P><B>Sociobiology, Science and the Feminine:</B></P> <OL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/renewal/voices2/ femsci.htm#anchor249700"><B>Feminism and Science</B></A><B> Evelyn Fox Keller.</B> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/renewal/voices2/ white.htm#anchor54394"><B>The Historical Roots of Our Ecolgic Crisis</B></A><B> Lynn White Jr.</B> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/renewal/voices2/ white.htm#anchor48304"><B>World Without Women</B>:</A> The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science David Noble </OL> <H1><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/biocos/symevol.h tm"><FONT SIZE=+2>symevol.htm</FONT></A></H1> <P><B>Inner Circles</B> New Scientist 8 Aug 98 11 reports on findings that there is a 17% net circular polarization in light in gas clouds in the Orion nebula where new stars are forming. Although this was infra-red light James Hough says it should also apply to the ultra-violet light. This would explain the excess of L-amino-acids found in the Murchison meteorite, suggesting a cosmic rather than accidental origin for the handedness of biological molecules on earth.</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/biocos/life/life ..htm#anchor698058"><B>Polarized Life</B></A><B> Sci Am Oct 98</B> </UL> <H1><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/biocos/symevol2. htm"><FONT SIZE=+2>symevol2.htm</FONT></A></H1> <P><FONT SIZE=-1>Szostak and Eric Ekland and David Bartel argue in Science July 95 that although they have selected such ribozymes out of trillions in lab selection experiments, the ease with which they were generated suggests they are almost certainly part of a vastly larger class of similar molecules which nature is capable of producing.</FONT></P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/biocos/life/life ..htm#anchor246003"><B><FONT SIZE=-1>Let There be Life</FONT></B></A><FONT SIZE=-1> New Scientist 6 July 96</FONT> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/biocos/life/life ..htm#anchor245507"><B><FONT SIZE=-1>The World according to RNA</FONT></B></A><FONT SIZE=-1> Scientific American Jan 96</FONT> </UL> <P>Recently the situation has moved a step forwards with the active regions of RNAs capable of polymerising amono acids displaying features similar to those on biological ribosomes suggesting the biological solution may be a universal chemically-optimal sequencing arrangement.</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/biocos/life/life ..htm#anchor687901"><B>Molecules of Ancient Life Born Again</B></A> NS 17 Oct 98 </UL> <H2><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/eye.htm ">eye.htm</A></H2> <P><FONT SIZE=-1>A belief in <B>negative feedback as opposed to positive feedback</B> or bifurcation. Most of the debate is over different models used to predict how much warming will occur, the capacity of the oceans to absorb and sequester CO2 through various organisms and the masking effects of other gasses such as <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/eye.htm #anchor921938">sulfates</A> </B>and <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/n ino.htm#anchor340194">water vapour,</A></B> which according to recent indications accentuates rather than moderates warming, the uncertain trends of cloudiness with warming which have now been associated with <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/n ino.htm#anchor1625905">solar activity</A></B> and <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/eye.htm #anchor53414">methane deposits</A></B> which could definitely make matters worse although atmospheric methane is currently <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/c o2/gwfor.htm#anchor119381">decreasing</A></B>. .. <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/g rim.htm#anchor3142637">Fluoroform</A></B> has also been implicated as having an effect 10,000 times stronger than CO2. <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/d eforest.htm#anchor944112">Forest cleareance fragmentation</A></B> has now been cited as a significant additional contributor in addition to that from tropical felling and burning.</FONT> <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/c o2/gwfor.htm#anchor144602">Regrowth of new forest</A></B> gives only a temporary respite and may lead to <A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/c o2/gwfor.htm#anchor158319">gross damage to exiting native forest</A> some of which can be a net emmitter of CO2 to increase.</P> <P>And at the end:</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/c o2/kyo.htm#anchor1140969"><B>Global Emission Talks Stall as Nations Argue</B></A><B> NZ Herald Nov 98</B> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/c o2/gwfor.htm#anchor144602"><B>Regrowth and its dangers as a means of suppressing global warming<BR> </B></A><B>Oct 98 </B>new evidence of CO2 uptake in new forest growth leads to controversy </UL> <H2><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/eye2.ht m">eye2.htm</A></H2> <P><FONT SIZE=-1>The developing world is beset by severe pollution problems from the methyl-cyanide eruption at Bhopal to heavy contamination of wells across Bangla-desh with arsenic. The contamination of many rivers with foamy detergent has become legend, but more recently the incidence of a variety of seemingly inert chemicals such as phthalates from the paint and plastic industry have proven to have estrogenic activity and</FONT> could explain why human <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor3362226">sperm counts</A></B> are falling and why <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/saceve. htm#anchor86912">frogs</A></B> across the world are disappearing in alarming numbers and <B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor3361285">fish</A></B> in many rivers have developed male reproductive abnormalities.</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/e str.htm#anchor115760"><B>The Feminization of Nature</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/e str.htm#anchor117296"><B>Our Stolen Future</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor3362226"><B>Where have all the sperm gone?</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor79000"><B>Where have all the boys gone?</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/e str.htm#anchor114379"><B>Estrogens in utero and breast cancer</B></A><B><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor79000"> </A></B> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/saceve. htm#anchor86912"><B>Where have all the frogs gone?</B></A> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/diversit/extra/s perm.htm#anchor3361285"><B>Confused fish</B></A> </UL> <H2><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/quantcos/quant1/ quantsb.htm">quantsb.htm</A></H2> <P>Experiments on the supernova 1987A</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/quantcos/meta/me ta.htm#anchor87618"><B>Massive neutrinos discovered</B></A> Sci Am Aug 98 9 </UL> <P><B>Bosons and Fermions</B></P> <P>A variety of dualities have begun to emerge ...</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/quantcos/supstr/ supers.htm#anchor16431"><B>Five and Still Counting</B></A> NS 24 Oct 98 29<BR> A fifth dimension with larger dimensions than the compactified string dimensions may hold a key to the integration of the forces. </UL> <P><B>Quantum Cosmology</B></P> <UL> <LI><B>New inflation theories to account for the universes mass and expansion: <A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/quantcos/inf/inf lat.htm#anchor216785"><BR> Open Inflation</A> <A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/quantcos/inf/inf lat.htm#anchor56947">The flip side</A> <A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/quantcos/inf/inf lat.htm#anchor57451">Long live inflation</A></B> </UL> <H2><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/explod/explod.ht m">explod.htm</A></H2> <P><B>Nuclear Armageddon:</B></P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/explod/cher/cher ..htm"><B><FONT SIZE=-1>Wormwood:</FONT></B></A><B><FONT SIZE=-1> A Shrine to Chernobyl</FONT></B> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/explod/nuclears/ fallo.htm"><B>Russian Fallout Legacy</B></A><B> : <A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/explod/cher/cher ..htm#anchor646940">When the Dust Settles</A> NS Oct 98</B> </UL> <P><B>Urgent Nuclear Issues:</B></P> <UL> <LI><B><FONT SIZE=-1>May 98 </FONT></B><FONT SIZE=-1><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/explod/ind/ind.h tm#anchor293322">India Sparks New Arms Race in Underground Tests<BR> </A></FONT>Indian nuclear chauvanism and Pakistan's response. <B><A HREF= "http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/explod/ind/ind.htm#an chor662227">Deadly Secrets</A> Sci Am Aug 98</B> </UL> <P><B>Chemical and Biological Weapons</B></P> <UL> <LI><B><FONT SIZE=-1>The Scourge of <A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/explod/bio/biolw ..htm#anchor148788">Agent Orange</A></FONT></B> <LI><A HREF="http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/explod/bio/biolw ..htm#anchor617649"><B>Third Generation Genetic Abnormalities</B></A><B> in Vietnamese Children<BR> </B><FONT SIZE=-1>One of the most damaging chemical warfare agents known to warfare has been Agent Orange used by the US to massively defoliate Vietnam during the war. Not only did this cause massive defoliation, but an epidemic of liver cancer and lingering consequences in terms of health debility and particularly foetal abnormalities, including spina bifida. Although these effects, like those of the nerve gas antidotes of the gulf war have been subject to repeated cover-ups there has finally been a payout in the US and studies recently released in Australia confirm a significant effect on foetal abnormalities in their servicemen.</FONT> </UL> <P> </P> <P> </BODY> </HTML> _____________________________________________________________________________ Chaos is the Mother of Invention - Necessity the Offspring _____________________________________________________________________________ Chris KING, Phone: 0064-9-3737599 # 8818 Senior Lecturer Mathematics Fax: 0064-9-3737457 University of Auckland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Private Bag 92019 AUCKLAND, New Zealand. http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genesis.htm "Genesis of Eden" - Alta Vista Search
