Science and Technology
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- Embracing Change with All Four Arms
- This paper sets out to defend human genetic engineering with a new bioethical approach, post-humanism.
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- Eubios Ethics Institute
- A non-profit group founded by Darryl Macer in Christchurch, New Zealand and in Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Site provides links, general information and conference abstracts.
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- Eugenics, Genetic Engineering, and Cloning
- Considerations and arguments on several scientific procedures that possibly could improve human life.
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- National Information Resource on Ethics & Human Genetics
- Compilation of links, journals and other publications that offer research about the ethical and moral aspects of applying genetic knowledge to humans.
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- National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
- A specialized collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics. The library holdings represent the world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research. This collection functions both as a reference library for the public and as an in depth research resource for scholars from the U.S. and abroad.
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- Who Owns the Human Genetic Code? An Annotated Bibliography
- Article on whether or not the United States Patent Office should issue patents on gene sequences.
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- Inch Perfect
- An assortment of articles asserting the superiority of British weights and measures to the French decimal system, including nineteenth century sources.
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- Salish Indians Against the Metric System (SIAMS)
- Criticizes Canada's imposition of metric measurements on its aboriginal peoples.
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- Presidential campaign could use some anti-metric mania
- Column by neoconservative columnist Jonah Goldberg on Tesco's decision to restore imperial weights and measures, and on metrication as an ideological tool of the EU and WTO. (August 01, 2000)
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- Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
- CRN investigates the societal implications, long-range risks, and effective use of nanotechnology, and educates those who will influence its use, or be affected by it.
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- Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology
- A starting point for exploring ethical, social, and environmental implications of nanotechnology.
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- Plutonium Investigation
- WISE-Paris Project on plutonium in the world. WISE-Paris is a highly respected reference source on energy and environment issues.
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- Ross Mayfield's Weblog: RFID Hacks
- Weblog entry argues that the more people grapple with RFID to learn how it operates and how it can be manipulated, worries about its misuse should decrease.
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- csmonitor.com - Can your razor blade spy on you?
- Radio frequency identification tags could simplify inventory, but they worry privacy advocates. (November 06, 2003)
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- Americans to Ban Cloning
- Group of Americans promoting a global, comprehensive ban on human cloning.
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- Hello Dolly!
- An entertaining and informative look at the science behind Dolly, from the Why Files at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.