editorial
Dear Readers,
I am really glad to bring you this latest issue which is full of varied topics, all
equally interesting. Our contributor Ellie
Pownall goes into personalised medicine.
In recent years, the path of medicine has
progressed both scientifically and socially; one of these recent developments is
the ideology of personalised medicine.
Personalised medicine is an emerging
practice of medicine that uses an individual’s genetic profile to guide decisions
made in regard to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Also in this issue, I make my own contribution with ‘The Enigma of the Thracians
and the Orpheus Myth’. The Thracians
are well-known for their exuberant fighting spirit; but the history of a population is not just built on its wars and the
exploits of its soldiers and leaders, as is
usually read in encyclopaedias and history books. Spread across South East
Europe were groups of men and women
who were highly skilled in working with
refined metals, were followers of a delicate mystique that worshipped the mother goddess and had complex funerary
rituals immersed in symbolism.
And to top off the final contents, John
Baruch walks us through Jupiter, the lord
of night sky, and an attractive proposal.
Our computers take us into amazing
worlds where anything is possible but
reality can also deliver the amazing. How
about using computers to take us into the
real world, to control robots that will take
images for us of the far distant reaches
of the Universe?
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Mado Martinez
Editorial Director
Ispectrum
magazine
Published Bimonthly
ISSN 2053-1869
Editorial Director
Mado Martinez,
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Art Director
Rayna Petrova
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Contributing Editors
Bradley Terblanche
Laura Hayes
Contributing Writers
Ellie Pownall
John Baruch
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