Brave New World

A number of news items today confirm that we are indeed living in a brave new world -to cite Aldous Huxley. Take a look...

In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins.

In Nevada, there are sheep whose livers and hearts are largely human.

In California, mice peer from their cages with human brain cells firing inside their skulls.

These are not outcasts from "The Island of Dr. Moreau," the 1896 novel by H.G. Wells in which a rogue doctor develops creatures that are part animal and part human. They are real creations of real scientists, stretching the boundaries of stem cell research". Read Story


Also, Canada's Supreme Court ruled today that gay marriage is constitutional under that nation's laws. Read Story

And finally, in Califonia, only five weeks after voters in eleven states banned same-sex marriage, Assembly Member Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced the "Marriage License Nondiscrimination Act", which would amend California's family code that defines marriage as a "personal relationship arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman" to read "between two persons".