On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan < [email protected]> wrote:
> A very interesting article [1] on the new thinking in medecine that looks > beyond DNA as the reason for everything. The July 6/13 issue of Newsweek > has > a set of articles on it. > > Also, more bad news for smokers. Now the ill effects get passed on to your > progeny even if you subsequently quit and they aren't subjected to passive > smoking. Sigh. > Perhaps human beings are always prone to thinking, in each era, that since the prevailing set of tenets is the latest, it also is the truest...we tend to respect the ancient past, but denigrate the opinions and theories of the recent past. And we often forget that developments that shape the future often come from directions that have never been visualized before.Forty years ago, no one could have conceptualized the technical logistics that make the Internet work. It's tempting to think that it's we who are, right now, on the brink of finding "42". Thanks, KK, for a very interesting article. Cheers, Deepa.
