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56If we want to settle on other planets, we’ll have to use genome editing to alter human DNAThe Conversation. 2024.When considering human settlements on the Moon, Mars and further afield, much attention is given to the travel times, food and radiation risk. We’ll undoubtedly face a harsh environment in deep space and some thinkers have been pointing to genome editing as a way to ensure that humans can tolerate the severe conditions as they venture further into the solar system.
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Can science and religion co-exist?The Institute of Art and Ideas. 2024.Perhaps the most underappreciated period in the history of the dialogue between science and religion is the interwar era of 1918-1939. This is all the more perplexing due to it being the most revolutionary era in modern physics. The figures, books and disputes were as impactful as any time since Newton, yet they rarely feature outside of deep, academic articles.
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38The five scholars who won two Nobel prizes – and what sets them apartThe Conversation. 2024.There is often much debate about who is the greatest among sportsmen and women, movie stars, leaders or artists. But some scholars have truly made a staggering difference to the world. Winning a Nobel prize is a rare, extraordinary achievement, but five remarkable people have done it twice. Who are they? What sets them apart? And who is the greatest?
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39Book review of "Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an A Patronage of Piety" by Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza
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Review of Sandra J. Godde Reaching for Immortality: Can science cheat death?Science and Christian Belief 35 (2): 195-196. 2023.A review of Sandra J. Godde "Reaching for Immortality: Can science cheat death?"
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33It has been over a century since the boom period of physics exploded with Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others, sending us spinning into a new world of chaos from our previously ordered universe. This brilliant generation of physicists ultimately peeled back the layers of the universe, as well as of the atom, to reveal a world stranger than fiction. Ever since those earliest days of quantum mechanics, the theory ruling the microworld of atoms and particles, the holy grail of physics has been f…Read more
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An advanced algorithm that has been developed by Google DeepMind has gone some way to cracking one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in biology. AlphaFold aims to predict the 3D structures of proteins from the “instruction code” in their building blocks. The latest upgrade has recently been released.
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Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDepartment of History, Politics & PhilosophyAssociate Tutor (Part-time)
Manchester, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
| Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology |
| History of Western Philosophy |