Toward Endless Life: Population, Machinery, and Monumental Time by Thomas Allen

“…The expositions seemed to tell a tale of historical change in which human beings became Malthusian populations, giving way in a quasi-evolutionary fashion before fetishized machinery and clockwork technology. The expositions and related cultural artifacts such as monumental clocks, literary narratives and sketches, and historical paintings thus presage, in their imaginings of inhuman time, not only the contemporary academic interest in “big history” and “deep time,” but also such cultural phenomena as the Clock of the Long Now, whose builders (engineers and technophiles associated with the computer industry in California) envision a clock so slow it would tell time into a future devoid of humanity. …”
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Integrative genomic analyses combined with molecular dynamics simulations reveal the impact of deleterious mutations of Bcl-2 gene on the apoptotic machinery and implications in ca... by Ghazi Elamin, Ghazi Elamin, Zhichao Zhang, Depika Dwarka, Kabange Kasumbwe, John Mellem, Nompumelelo P. Mkhwanazi, Paradise Madlala, Paradise Madlala, Mahmoud E. S. Soliman

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