Is our fate in our genes or in our stars?

Is our fate in our genes or in our stars? (The first of five questions I may be asked as part of a panel on DNA and ethics.) I’ll take “in our stars” as a metaphor for something like “determined by the cosmos,” rather than a literal reference to astrology. I don’t think the average…

Surfers switch off TV for PCs

On average, internet users spend three and a half hours a day on the internet compared with 2.8 hours a day watching television. | The research, which is the first to suggest the internet has overtaken the television as the most popular medium among people who have both, will provide further grist to the mill…