Louise Perry

Aug 26, 2024 | geneticliteracyproject.org | Louise Perry

Louise Perry | Spectator | August 26, 2024 Credit: MIT Technology Review Emerging technology is about to present parents with a set of ethical questions that make the usual kinds of debates – breast milk or formula? Nanny or daycare? – seem trivial. We have always had the power (more or less) to control our children’s nurture. Before long – perhaps in just a few years – any parent who can afford to will have control over the minutest details of a child’s nature too. … The crucial change set...

Jun 17, 2024 | thespectator.com | Louise Perry |Alexander Larman |Ross Anderson |Bill Kauffman

Here follows a non-exhaustive list of my genetic flaws. I am short-sighted, more so as I age. I have bunions, dodgy knees and even dodgier shoulders. I have asthma. My skin blisters easily. My hair started going gray when I was in my late teens. I have zero talent for foreign languages, running or music. I am prone to nightmares, as well as to depression and anxiety. Relatively mild flaws, as they go. But still, these aren’t traits I’m eager to pass on.

Jan 2, 2024 | thespectator.com | Joe Lindsley |Charles Lipson |Mark Galeotti |Louise Perry

LVIV — The Japanese have a concept of forest bathing for health. Joe Rogan promotes daily ice baths for a little shock to get you going in the morning. But in Ukraine, people often experience missile-and-drone baths, and so it was in the early hours of last Friday, when Russia launched what seems to have been its biggest ever sky assault upon Ukrainian cities. It was the first major Russian attack upon Ukrainian since the summer, when Ukraine disrupted Moscow’s missile-launching Black Sea Fleet.

Jan 2, 2024 | thespectator.com | Charles Lipson |Mark Galeotti |Louise Perry |Charles Moore

One of the most important political developments of 2023 was the growing pushback against “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Those DEI programs and the ideology that underpin them are under siege politically and legally, and they are losing. They had grown rapidly, thanks to a mixture of support, indifference and timidity. But that began to ebb last year and will continue to recede in 2024.

Dec 31, 2023 | thespectator.com | Mark Galeotti |Louise Perry |Charles Moore |Rupert Shortt

It has become something of a fad to try to identify and quantify the body doubles of Vladimir Putin. There are even outlandish claims that the man himself is dead and has been replaced by one. But why the fascination? It is hardly unusual for autocrats to have doubles — as a shield against assassination or simply as handy proxies to take on the more tedious and less important duties. Stalin had at least a couple; Panamanian strongman Manual Noriega apparently had no fewer than four.