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The Meaning of Words: Dystopias, Utopias and the Lingusitic

• June 18, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Brave New World, Science and humanities
Tags: Brave New World, culture, dystopia, Huxley, linguistics, meaning-making, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Shakespeare, words

Correcting Corrective Diction

• January 13, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Eugenics, Genetic engineering
Tags: Ethics of science, genetic diction, genetics, language, linguistics, Nova Cracking the Code of Life

HDTV and Eugenics

• February 15, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in Eugenics, Evolution, Genetic engineering, Religion and genetics, Science and humanities, Science Fiction
Tags: ethics, etymology, Eugenics, Evolution, Genetic engineering, HDTV, Hereditary Genius, linguistics, Sir Francis Galton

Freedom is Unfreedom: How to avoid headaches when conceptual boundaries dissolve

• March 28, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Science and humanities
Tags: analogy, biology, Capitalism, Charles Dickens, Dickens, disease, epidemics, freedom, linguistics, Little Dorrit, money, Reginia Gagnier, unfreedom

Children: Experiment and Exploration in The Gold Bug Variations

• March 12, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Double Helix, Gold Bug Variations, Science and humanities
Tags: childhood, children, experimentation, genetics, gold bug variations, jay clayton, linguistics, literary allusion, richard powers, yeats

Animalistic Interactions in Oryx and Crake

• February 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Chimeras, Oryx and Crake, Posthuman
Tags: animals, anthropomorphism, linguistics, Margaret Atwood, storytelling

Linguistic Determinism and H. G. Wells

• February 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Chimeras, Genetic engineering, Island of Dr. Moreau
Tags: animals and language, Island of Dr. Moreau, linguistics, victorian stereotypes, wells

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