Humbled by the Genome's Mysteries

Stephen Jay Gould is Humbled by the Genome's Mysteries.

Free Software as appropriate technology

Danny Yee: Free Software as appropriate technology.

Malignant Sadness

Guardian review of Lewis Wolpert's book Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression.

Edward Said

"I was drawn to figures such as Conrad, a man of two or three traditions, and to men like Vico and Swift who made a conscious effort to appropriate the world to themselves," he said. With Giambatista Vico, the 18th-century historian, "it was the notion that people make their own worlds; you don't feel that your nation is the heart of anything but the individual is, and it is the individual that makes history. Vico was an outsider too, a Neapolitan: you might say he was an Italian Arab." - Edward Said