In ‘The Library of Babel’ (1941), Jorge Luis Borges imagines a vast library that contains ‘no two identical books’.[1] Instead, the library contains all books that might be printed using 22 characters plus the comma and the period: ‘each shelf contains thirty-five...
Category: DNA and health
Guest blog on DNA and ethics: Carolyn Huston
A guest blog on DNA, genealogy, ethics from Dr Carolyn Huston. Carolyn, a former GP, gives regular talks and workshops on family history and medicine, particularly with focus on death certificates. Here she gives us some reflections on DNA, health, and data. As an...
Family History, Science and Irishness
A Double-Helix History live event at the Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester, part of the Manchester Histories Festival, 9 June 2018 DHH took over the Irish World Heritage Centre on Saturday morning for an event bringing together a range of expert speakers to...
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