Currently based at Lancaster University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement Professor, she will sit on the crossbenches.
Prof Black, who will take up her appointment alongside her current role at Lancaster, said: “I know this will be a challenging position and I view it as national service.
“I have been incredibly fortunate throughout my career and if those experiences can be brought to bear in government decision-making, then I can only promise to do my best which I hope will be enough.”
Prof Black is a familiar face to many thanks to her books, television documentary appearances and media work.
She currently leads the 2.5million euro H-unique project designed to identify serious criminals based on their hand anatomy.
Ancestry estimation a method used by forensic anthropologists to determine ancestral origin by analyzing bone structures is rooted in race science and perpetuates white supremacy, according to a new paper by a forensic anthropologist at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
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Recompose, the first human-composting funeral home in the U.S., is now open for business By Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times
Published: January 24, 2021, 6:00am
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2 Photos Washington is the first state to legalize human composting. This is a rendering of what a Recompose facility for human composting could look like. MOLT Studios Photo Gallery
Somewhere in Kent, tucked anonymously into acres of warehouses and light-industrial workshops, the first full-service human-composting funeral home in the United States is operational.
After nearly a decade of planning, research and fundraising not to mention a successful campaign to change state law Recompose is finally converting people into soil.
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BLOOMSBURG, Penn., Jan. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Conrad B. Quintyn, Ph.D., explores how scientists seeking to repair defects in humans have ushered in the age of the new eugenics in his new book The New Eugenics: Modifying Biological Life in the Twenty-First Century (published by Archway Publishing).
The author argues that increasingly, scientists believe that improving the health, environment, and safety of humankind justifies the risks. The book encompasses many biotechnologies within the definition of the new eugenics because these technologies are used to improve the stock, when the stock in this case are all humans. In addition to discussing the new genetics in terms of in vitro fertilization and PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) like other researchers, Quintyn talks about other biotechnologies as well. Additionally, he includes animals in the new eugenics because the success, advances, techniques, and science of genetic engineering could not have