The Uncertain Hour

Jesse Browner was born in New York City in 1961. When he was eight, his family moved to Europe, where hespent the ‘70s in high school in London.

He returned to the States to attend Bard College, then spent his junior year at the University of Leningrad, USSR.

He is the author of four books - Con glom eros (Random House) published in 1992, followed by Turnaway (RH) in 1996 and The Duchess Who Wouldn’t Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality in Western Civilization, in 2003. His latest novel, The Uncertain Hour, was published in May, 2007.

Jesse is also a literary and a diplomatic translator at the UN.

Biology of Belief

Dr. Lipton began his scientific career as a cell biologist. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville before joining the Department of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine in 1973. Dr. Lipton’s research on muscular dystrophy, studies employing cloned human stem cells, focused upon the molecular mechanisms controlling cell behavior. An experimental tissue transplantation technique developed by Dr. Lipton and colleague Dr. Ed Schultz and published in the journal Science was subsequently employed as a novel form of human genetic engineering.

He produced breakthrough studies on the cell membrane, which revealed that this outer layer of the cell was an organic homologue of a computer chip, the cell’s equivalent of a brain. His research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, between 1987 and 1992, revealed that the environment, operating though the membrane, controlled the behavior and physiology of the cell, turning genes on and off. His discoveries, which ran counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by the genes, presaged one of today’s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics. Two major scientific publications derived from these studies defined the molecular pathways connecting the mind and body. Many subsequent papers by other researchers have since validated his concepts and ideas.

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer

Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938, Dr. Caldicott received her medical degree from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1961. While living in the United States from 1977 to 1986, she co-founded the Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war.

The Smithsonian Institute has named Dr. Caldicott as one of the most influential women of the 20th Century. She has written for numerous publications and has authored seven books. Her lastest two books are Nuclear Power is Not the Answer and War In Heaven  (March 2007).

Atomic Iran

Dr. Jerome Corisi’s publication, Atomic Iran, details the history and possibilities that Iran is developing a nuclear capability and possibly producing high grade plutonium for possible use in nuclear weapons.

Jerome R. Corsi is a staff reporter for World Net Daily. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles.

He has also published Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scar-city and the Politics of Oil, which he co-authored with WNetD columnist Craig. R. Smith, and The Late Great USA.