The technology to grow a baby outside a mother is closer than you think. Even with wide adoption, it won’t raise fertility enough to stop population decline—but will be enough to save lives. The post Artificial Wombs Will Save Lives Not Birth Rates appeared first on Palladium.| Palladium
Intentional design is replacing evolution as the main driver of genetic change in humans. To enhance the brain is to rewire the machinery that makes institutions possible. The post Our Genetic Constitution appeared first on Palladium.| Palladium
In Nicolas Poussin’s 1638 painting The Arcadian Shepherds, or Et in Arcadia Ego, unsettled shepherds gather around a starkly cut stone tomb, while one of them traces with his finger the inscription; “and [yet] in Arcadia, [here too] I am.” They are accompanied by an imposing female figure, stylistically based on the Juno Cesi statue currently in the Capitoline Museum. With her diadem, blue and yellow clothing, and hand on the back of the shepherd pointing at the letter “R” on the in...| Palladium Magazine
The boundary between the human world and the natural world has collapsed. PALLADIUM 07: Garden Planet is now available, featuring interviews with Stewart Brand and Isabelle Boemeke.| Palladium Magazine
If America is a story, then who better to diagnose its ills and prescribe a treatment than a novelist? Walter Kirn was born in 1962 in Ohio and grew up in Minnesota. After Princeton and Oxford he embarked on a literary career in New York media, reviewing books and writing for New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Time, The New Republic, and Harper’s.| Palladium Magazine
