Ethics of Stem Cell Research
May 21, 2005, 4:01p - Ethics
With the development of technology to create personalized stem cells, we'll soon be able to order personalized organs that are virtually identical to our own. If you suffer from kidney failure and you need a new kidney, you'll no longer have to spend a year on a waiting list hoping for a donor organ, which your body may very ... more »
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Gokul Rajan
- Nov 21, 2010, 8:34a
hey! what you are talking about here is embryonic stem cell... but we can get stem cells from bone marrow and umbical cord too... Infact, these days stems cells can also be obtained from menstrual blood and peripheral blood also.. in all these methods we need not destroy an embryo to get stem cells... so these ethical questions don't arise! stem cell is really a breakthrough in regenerative medicine!! and we cannot afford to loose this technique cos of some silly ethical issues!!!
Mind Ruts
May 13, 2005, 2:11a - Thinking
I often find my mind getting stuck in ruts, like a wheel-barrow taking the same path over and over again, constraining the flow of my mind with its walls. Some types of mind ruts:
1) Circular Rut - Often I think the same thought over and over again, sometimes for as long as an hour. For example, when I wake ... more »
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Blogging instead of Jobbing
May 8, 2005, 10:05p - Business
I think it would be cool to be able to blog for a living. I was thinking about this the other day on the long drive to the WC (Walnut Creek) from my job in the MV (Mountain View). In thinking about how I could pull something like that off, it became clear that this problem was but a single ... more »
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Keith Gould
- May 23, 2005, 7:06a
Hi!
Slashdot uses the model that you find most palatable. As a paying subscriber, the ads are gone, but most fun is my news 15 minutes earlier than non-paying subscribers.
CHEC
May 1, 2005, 8:54p - Health and Medicine
My mom finally launched a website for her work, available at chec.healthcare.ucla.edu.
She works at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, in the Center for Humane and Ethical Medical Care (CHEC). Dr. Arthur Rivin founded CHEC, which is a non-profit, several years ago. One of the goals of CHEC is to educate the public on medicine, ethics and human values. Dr. ... more »
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Meepster
May 1, 2005, 8:31p - Friends
My friends Sachin Agarwal and Aki Jain recently launched a new website for buying and selling goods and services, called Meepster and available at meepster.org. They've been working on it for more than half a year.
The site's goal is to provide a marketplace for people to buy and sell stuff, similar to craigslist and ebay. They weren't happy ... more »
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Book Notes: Don't think of an elephant! by George Lakoff
May 1, 2005, 9:05a - Book Notes
Don't Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff
I read this book while in India, and it has definitely given me a new perspective on American politics and the present divide between progressives and conservatives. I highly recommend it, and it's really short (only about 100 pages). Notes from the book:
- "Thinking differently requires speaking differently" (xv). This is ... more »
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Bill
- Nov 29, 2005, 12:18p
I respect Lakoff for his work with Johnson on metaphors and embodied philosophy. That is brilliant work.
Lakoff's little side journey into politics is nothing more than political masturbation for the already convinced--otherwise known as "preaching to the choir." Any writer who is capable of passing high school composition could write a superior work, placing "liberals" in the disadvantageous straw man position in which Lakoff places conservatives.
I passed through the leftist camp years ago, brushed briefly past the US conservative base, landing in the individualist libertarian/anarachist camp. Right now I owe none of those groups any loyalty and feel contempt equally for all political (and religious) persuasions. Lakoff is just another true believer, politically speaking. Trivial, banal, pedestrian.
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