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...topic like the Future of Life, you can?t help but think of the marine biologist Ed Ricketts (1897-1948), a scientist who studied the myriad creatures of Monterey Bay and, more important, was a thinker far ahead of his time. Better known as the model for ?Doc?- the wise, philosophical scientist in John Steinbeck?s books Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday and The Sea of Cortez- Ricketts preached the idea that all life was related, from the sardines that once swarmed by the billions off the California coast to the people who depended on them for their livelihoods. He quaintly...
...wonders what Doc - he actually disliked the name, maybe because he was a college dropout and really didn?t have a Ph.D. - would have made of high-minded scientists, government officials and entrepreneurs, gathering near his beloved Cannery Row, to think about the consequences of a biological revolution. It was, of course, a revolution even he could not have anticipated. And not just because he died five years before Watson and Crick discovered DNA?s double helix (when his car was hit by a produce-laden freight train). Doc was an old-fashioned sort of biologist who combed tide pools...
...Dispatches From the Event: Day 3: Living to 1000? Day 2: No Easy Answers Live from the Future of Life The Ghost of Old Doc Ricketts...
JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER Haiti He used the Tontons Macoutes, a brutal secret-police force, to exercise control. Now Baby Doc lives comfortably in Paris, worshipping voodoo and studying solar energy...
...Dispatches From the Event: Day 3: Living to 1000? Day 2: No Easy Answers Live from the Future of Life The Ghost of Old Doc Ricketts...