Deaf British Babies: Morally Repugnant?

I have recently started listening to podcasts on my way to work, in an effort to become more aware of current events. As much as I have loved spending my incoming and outgoing commutes reading fiction, DC has a higher-than-average expectation of cultural literacy and I was beginning to feel ignorant and disconnected. It was [...]

Familial Searching: Making CSI a Family Affair

The Wall Street Journal is reporting a new forensic technique in Great Britain – familial DNA searching. Supported by a DNA database, to which anyone arrested must contribute, the bobbies run a sample (of blood, semen, hair, etc.) left behind by their wanted criminal. If they don’t find a match, they look at the close, [...]