or about being a penguin can indicate emotional coldness or a sense of isolation. A penguin, as a bird that can’t fly, can also represent someone who seems to be able to function despite lacking something essential. A penguin might also symbolize a recalled image of someone wearing a ...
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v Penguin Books Ltd.) that had found D. H. Lawrence’s novel legally permissible had been based on the effective deployment of the ‘public good’ defence also built into the 1959 Obscene Publications Act (covering work with demonstrable literary, artistic or scientific merit), across the rest...
This is perhaps a reference to the equation of homosexuality with femininity in her mind. When he asks her if she had ever thought it a possibility that he might be gay, she replies “what parent wants to think that about their child? No parent I know!”. Adam is visibly hurt and ...
In an era where entertainment is effortlessly at our fingertips, one would assume that people are less bored than ever. Yet, reports of boredom are higher now than compared to the past. This rising trend is concerning because chronic boredom can undermin
Trait databases have become important resources for large-scale comparative studies in ecology and evolution. Here we introduce the AnimalTraits database, a curated database of body mass, metabolic rate and brain size, in standardised units, for terrestr
Genetics and ReproductionHarnessing the Gene and Remaking the World (Rifkin, JIn this provocative and far-reaching book, Jeremy Rifkin argues that the computer revolution is merely a prelude to a far more significant change taking place in the glob...
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bypassing the limitations of conventional sexual reproduction. Knowledge of genomes and the techniques of genetics also enhance conventional breeding: In marker-assisted breeding, genetic markers are used to identify the desired characteristics in a plant while it is a seed or seedling, reducing the ti...