The classics never cease to deliver
I tend to see it as the Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice. He is not allowed to cast his gaze on her and when he does, he loses her forever. We are all Orpheus. We will always be. Curiosity drives us, after all. To be Orpheus is to care.
I remember doing a Special Issue with them a long time ago...
I get all of those connections. This was very obviously the intellectual context from which we drew this.
They are here: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
I've done one of them myself. Lots of visibility and feedback (but I could have written it better ;-)) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
seems like an excellent potential contribution to this rubric: collections.plos.org/collection/t...
"Ten Simple Rules" provide a quick, concentrated guide for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists face in their careers.
Yeah, in the protestant reformation, it took a little longer for power to shift
They tap into a small set of historical analogies that indeed, as you write, serve to display assessments of (usually undesirable) morality (overarching motifs are religion and war). I hadn't seen all of them, but most are very familiar and the list is a lot longer of course.