Word: humanity
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WITH its own kind of mathematics and a menagerie of strange-looking symbols, the young science of genetics was for years no more meaningful to the general public than the cuneiform inscriptions of ancient Babylonia. Hiroshima changed that. The possible genetic effects of radioactive fallout-monstrous malformations of the human form brought about by exposure of human genes to radioactivity-were easily, and chillingly, imaginable. Genetics became a matter of immediate concern to all men. Last summer TIME'S editors explored this mysterious area at the root of life in a cover story on Geneticist George Wells Beadle...
EARLY descriptions of radioactive fallout's effect on future generations were subject to exaggeration. Now, an M.I.T. study shows that the human capacity to absorb radium may exceed the previous medical estimates by as much as 25 times. For the sobering story, see MEDICINE, Radium Hangovers...
...What attracts me to existentialism is that it is a philosophy of human life, whereas a lot of modern philosophy doesn't have anything to do with anything anybody is interested in. There are uncountable 'problems' in philosophy, but some questions we don't care to know the answer to. Everybody is just about fed up with the traditional problems brought up by Hume, for instance...
...Earle's published work deals mainly with the problem of scientific detachment. Terming his writing "phenomenological" rather than "existential," he has written a critique of Karl Jaspers and an article, "The Standard Observer in the Sciences of Man," which seeks to eliminate the ideal of a strict science of human phenomena...
...oral contraceptives, such as one tested in Puerto Rico for the past two years, is a promising development, said Rock. He called for increased research on all aspects of human fertility...