This week my guest is British biologist Nessa Carey, who hasresearched and written extensively about the latest trends in molecular biologyand biotechnology for several decades. My name is Steven Parton and you are listening to the feedback loopby Singularity. Nessa Carey The potential of thetechnology is so good that it changes the ethical question from Do we have theright to do it too? Do we have the right to withhold it? The really scary thingabout CRISPR in that environment, in the sense of how democratizing it is, isif someone's thinking, I don't want to give myself big muscles, I want to makea really powerful bacterium that really rare these days, and gene editing willmake that so much easier just because gene editing is so good at changinggenomes.
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The table is always there, and no one knows how it gets from place to place, and no one questions it. What would you do if you had furniture that was always there, at almost all family gatherings? In The Kid Table, written by Andrea Seigel, that is what Ingrid Bell and her fellow cousins’ experience, through a series of five family events. Log cabin on a secluded mountain (check) -A week off work to do nothing but write (check) - A light snow falling outside as I sit under ablanket at the desk (check) - An amazing love story that writes itself (what's the opposite of acheck?) It's my second day here and I haven't written one word. Enjoy and Happy Readingīook DescriptionI've always dreamed of renting a cottage in the mountains for a week to write a romance noveland now I'm finally here. You can also cancel your membership if you are bored5. Choose the book you like when you register4. Sign Up To Acces "My Mountain Man Muse"3. Click Button "DOWNLOAD" Or "READ ONLINE"2. 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He and Remington engage in some silent form of man-to-man communication, and then that’s it, and we head in different directions.Īs soon as Remy ferrets us into our bedroom, I’m pressed back against the door and I find his nose buried in my cleavage as he smells me again. “None,” Pete says, and the emotion in his face almost breaks me. “We’ll discuss it in our room,” he grumbles at me. Ever so slowly, he drags a hand through his hair in frustration, down to the back of his neck, then he shakes his head and grabs my nape as he steers me toward our hall. “Would you rather I’d kicked them in the nuts?” Remy looks at me, and now his brows are raised high. He swings around, his eyebrows furrowing. He leaves his apartment, hellbent on finding his brother’s killer and taking vengeance. When his brother is murdered in a shooting, Will knows he must do what men do: take care of it. The main character is nineteen-year-old Will. It is grungy and edgy in a way that I knew would appeal to my urban students. The poetry alone dazzles, but the story holds your attention captive. I had been in the middle of planning my first creative writing class, and I was constantly on the lookout for great novels in verse to use as mentor texts. I had heard the name everywhere (how could you not?), but none of his titles had really grabbed my attention until Long Way Down came out. Ok, here’s the truth: Long Way Down was my first Jason Reynolds read. I only recommend products that I personally use and love, or think my readers will find useful. In this Long Way Down Lit Literature review, I’ll show you just how powerful, and accessible, this novel in verse is.ĭisclosure: This post may contain affiliate links that earn me a small commission, at no additional cost to you. But Long Way Down, in my opinion, really kicks it up a notch. Jason Reynolds is the king of engaging young adult literature. Perhaps Ireland's most famous 'magic road' is in Waterford, located along a country road close to Mahon Falls, in the beautiful Comeragh Mountains.Īnd yes, as this clip shows, if you stop your car in the right spot it will proceed to roll uphill. So your eyes, rather than the fairies, are playing tricks on you.Īround the world, magic roads are known as 'gravity hills' or 'magnetic hills', and there are hundreds of them.įrom the comfort of our desks, and making liberal use of Google Maps, we went to find three of the most famous examples in Ireland. It's an optical illusion, where the layout of the landscape makes it look like the slope is going one way, but in fact it's going the other. The explanations for the magic road phenomenon vary depending on who you're talking to - and either fairies or 'magnetic fields' are often cited - but the real answer is pretty simple. Yes, Ireland's 'magic roads' are 'a thing' - a stretch of roadway, usually well off the beaten track and hidden up a succession of byways and boreens, where if you stop the car and let the handbrake off, the vehicle will mysteriously and eerily roll uphill. |