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...Demo versions of album highlight “Sofa King” featured a soulful organ groove, replaced on the album by a denser and more exciting soundscape of shimmering violins and flutes, over classic breakbeats and superlow bass...
...were going to die of organ failure waiting for an organ from a cadaver, would you accept a pig organ instead...
...Xeno Chronicles,” G. Wayne Miller recounts his two years spent in Sachs’ laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, where Sachs is the director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center. The result is a revealing look at Sachs’ attempts to transplant organs from pigs into baboons, hoping that if a baboon won’t reject the organ, humans won’t either. And this is where Sachs’ research efforts lie: investigating new ways to prevent baboons’ immune systems from attacking the foreign organs, a task that comes with painstakingly...
...Xeno Chronicles” raises several interesting questions, but, in a slim 206 pages, Miller manages an honest stab at only a few of them. What issues of identity would a pig-organ recipient face? What are the ethics of growing and harvesting pigs solely for their organs—and should we transplant said organs into humans who, having brought themselves to their knees before the medical community, are sick in the first place because they’ve eaten too many pork chops...
...Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.” The organ seems misidentified when the eyes and, in the case of NTFU, the lower extremities, not the lungs, of visitors are most affected. The grotesque becomes something like pathos, intriguing our sympathies and altering our perceptions—the images of this war, previously censored but now presented on sites like NTFU, will...