Michael Cook
 Michael Cook likes bad puns, bushwalking and black coffee. He did a BA at Harvard University in the US where it was good for networking, but moved to Sydney where it wasn’t. He also did a PhD on an obscure corner of Australian literature. He has worked as a book editor and magazine editor and has published articles in magazines and newspapers in the US, the UK and Australia. Currently he is the editor of BioEdge, a newsletter about bioethics, and MercatorNet. |
The Ethical Imagination
Michael Cook | 7 Dec 2007
A Canadian ethicist offers a fresh approach to defending human dignity.
There's more to life than discovering DNA
Michael Cook | 19 Oct 2007
Remarks by Nobel laureate James Watson have proved that there are worse crimes than being boring. Like being a eugenicist, for instance.
The ultimate miserabilist
Michael Cook | 2 Oct 2007
Just when you thought philosophers couldn't get any more pessimistic, one of them surprises you.
Red, blue and grey matter
Michael Cook | 20 Sep 2007
American neuroscientists claim that liberalism and conservatism are located in the brain, in the anterior cingulate cortex, to be precise.
A new challenge for human dignity
Michael Cook | 8 Sep 2007
Britain's fertility regulator has just approved the creation of human-animal embryos for research. What's next?
The crimes of Michael Vick
Michael Cook | 31 Aug 2007
When dogs die in Virginia, there's a media frenzy. When patients die in New Orleans, there's silence.
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