
Why Mars Matters
Feb 24, 2021 argues that settling the red planet is an ethical imperative that is technologically and biologically feasible.
Christopher E. Mason, a geneticist and computational biologist, is Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, with appointments at the Meyer Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School. His book The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds will be published in April 2021.
Feb 24, 2021 argues that settling the red planet is an ethical imperative that is technologically and biologically feasible.
After a gradual decade-long democratization process, Myanmar’s military seized power again in February and is waging a ruthless crackdown against unarmed civilian protesters. A major escalation of the ongoing turmoil – civil war is a growing possibility – would have implications far beyond the country’s borders.