The genome is an instruction manual containing the 100,000 or so genes that govern human development, operation and maintenance.
In "The American Religion," Bloom speculates about a time when American Mormons are so numerous and so wealthy "that governing our democracy becomes impossible without Mormon cooperation".
That's because of the 4,000 or so different laws that govern the alcohol industry and give individual states unprecedented rights to regulate sales and consumption within their borders.
The rules are especially powerful when it comes to dealing with those dreaded financial ratios that govern so many lives and lead so often to pathological consequences.
The menu, too, is a departure from the hypercreative impulses that govern so many Miami fusion kitchens.
But they will not feel empowered to do so if the institutions that govern them are, in the authors' words, extractive and bent on plundering their wealth.
But as Ms. Noble, with the help of Jeremy Neideck's superb sound design, sends her subjects and her audience down a meticulous rabbit hole of her own making (and unmaking), the result is an oddly comforting shedding of the conventions that govern so much of what we take for granted during a live performance.
There are so many complex factors that govern our lives and limit our abilities as parents that sometimes we just have to "make do".
The radical and magnificent dance theatre performance Nothing to Lose deconstructs the oppressive body ideals that govern so many of our desires, cherishing the impact of real, human forms.
The lyrics translate as: "Our rights, our rights, we're here to claim, so that the ones that govern us can hear us today; we are entrepreneur women who want to work; we need a space to display our products … courses and training so we can design and not just cook recipes.
