
Vision for Scotland in the European Union (December 12, 2007)
Scotland and Northern Ireland (June 18, 2007)
Vision for Scotland in the European Union (December 12, 2007)
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008)
Third Session of Parliament (June 30, 2007)
Dracula's Daughter, trying to explain her situation to Dr. Garth
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
“Maybe altruism is our most primitive attribute out of reach, beyond our control.”
"The Tucson Zoo", p. 10
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979)
Context: Maybe altruism is our most primitive attribute out of reach, beyond our control. Or perhaps it is immediately at hand, waiting to be released, disguised now, in our kind of civilization as affection or friendship or attachment. I can’t see why it should be unreasonable for all human beings to have strands of DNA coiled up in chromosomes, coding out instincts for usefulness and helpfulness. Usefulness may turn out to be the hardest test of fitness for survival, more important than aggression, more effective, in the long run, than grabbiness.
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008)
Sudden Light http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/roset03.html#1, st. 1 (1881).
“There is more to be gained by producing more opportunities than by optimizing existing ones.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)