In recent years, innovation in genetic engineering brought forth a number of tech-nologies to manipulate the fate of entire wild type populations. These technologiesrely on the dissemination of synthetic genetic elements within a population of sex-ually reproducing species via the germline and are identified as Self-PropagatingArtificial Genetic Elements (SPAGE). Some secure their dissemination…
Effective volcanic crisis communication is afundamental component of the concepts of miti-gation, disaster management, and disaster riskreduction. As part of this communication pro-cess, a number of tools have emerged that areregularly employed in volcanic crises that assistin the structure and formulation of communica-tive processes. This chapter focuses on four vitallessons learnt from key cr…
With a striking persistence, scientific publications and mass media reports identify China as the possible source of future pandemics. The trope of ori-gins gives the anticipation of future outbreaks a spatial form: suggesting that the seeds of the next pandemic already exist, perhaps hidden, waiting, some-where in China.1 The peculiar temporality of pandemic pr…