genesis

A bewitching survey looks at the unexpected, centuries-old genesis of the divination cards, and the ways they endured and changed in the modern era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

The genesis of this self-published guidebook occurred when the pair realized they were not receiving a portion of a royalty stream they were owed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

James Whale’s 1935 freakquel, “Bride of Frankenstein,” imagined the companion briefly alive, sporting a white-streaked, electric-shocked bouffant before being killed by the Monster moments after her genesis.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

Sustaining the momentum for disarmament, Reykjavik was the genesis of several crucial treaties that did indeed reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026

The genesis of proteins was thus perfectly synchronized with the requirements of the environment: supply the correct sugar, and a set of sugar-metabolizing genes would be turned on together.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Morris Trophy started 44 years ago, the geneses of Traci Morris Drake, who first got then-Washington coach Don James on board with the idea before pitching it to the rest of the conference.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

His idea of evolution also epitomizes the spirit of the nineteenth century with its search everywhere for geneses and transformations—in religion, philology, geology, biology.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various