Will Genetics be an Adaptive Liability?

It will be good to know your genetic "Achilles Heel", but will insurers use this in actuarial assessment of what your life is worth?

J. Craig Venter’s Human Longevity to Offer Health Services | MIT Technology Review

Paul Stamets: Bees & Fungi and the biologic communications underground

Paul Stamets - How Mushrooms Can Save Bees & Our Food Supply | Bioneers

metacognition

At first I was fed with a little spoon

and considered it the main impediment

to the satisfaction of my desire

for more, bigger, faster.

I imagined a conveyor belt

bolted at the chin,

a supply chain ever more efficiently

grinding up and pulverizing

everything in its path

to stoke the flames

of my hunger.

But then,

the corpulent sofa

was ripped out from under me

and delivered for dinner