The protestors on the streets of London, New York, Madrid and Tel Aviv do not understand the economic and political problems they face. The developed world is suffering from a demographic crisis. Railing against financiers and the richest 1% misses the underlying cause of the crisis: the costs of paying for their own parents' and grandparents' retirements.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
First Class Mutations
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| Beasts on a plane! |
It almost feels like a fool’s errand to isolate something that can help us make light of ourselves from the litany of improbable happenings taking place in X-Men: First Class. Any film with a sapphire coloured beast piloting a stealth fighter jet will struggle to poignantly frame questions about the evolution of humanity. But if you squint a little, the band of ‘mutant’ heroes, whose variety of supernatural traits are powered by a single mutation in the fictitious ‘X gene’, actually epitomise a core mechanism central to the field of population genetics.
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