by Ethos Institute | Apr 20, 2015 | Pulse
April 2015 Pulse Without a doubt, some of the most important and exciting developments in biotechnology today are taking place in the new and vast field of neuroscience. The brain is seen as the organ that has the closest and most profound connections to the...
by Ethos Institute | Apr 5, 2015 | Pulse
April 2015 Pulse According to an article in the May issue of The Scientist, an international team of researchers has successfully synthesised from scratch one of the sixteen chromosomes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Despite altering one-sixth of its base...
by Ethos Institute | Mar 15, 2015 | Pulse
March 2015 Pulse Christian mystic and philosopher Simone Weil wrote in her famous work Waiting for God, published posthumously more than 60 years ago: “Today one might think that the white races had almost lost all feeling for the beauty of the world, and that they...
by Ethos Institute | Mar 2, 2015 | Pulse
March 2015 Pulse It is quite fashionable to label the period in which we inhabit by the use of the prefix ‘post’: post-liberal, post-colonial, post-modern and even post-human. While the prefix annoyingly tells us very little, it does suggest that ours is an age...
by Ethos Institute | Feb 16, 2015 | Pulse
Feb 2015 Pulse Like so many around the world, I too was hoodwinked into believing Somaly Mam’s story. The world-renowned crusader against sex trafficking and slavery almost achieved iconic status with the story of her own sexual abuse when she was a 13-year-old girl...
by Ethos Institute | Feb 2, 2015 | Pulse
Feb 2015 Pulse In the past five decades, debates on the environment have seen a notable shift from anthropocentric to biocentric thinking. Theologians, philosophers and ethicists generally acknowledge that the traditional human-centric approach cannot adequately...
