Ethics
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In Defense of Difference
July 09, 2010
Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world's rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.
biodiversity, demographics, development, ethics, globalization, languages, population
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The State of the Scientist
July 08, 2010
The identity of the modern scientist is, in every possible sense, a work in progress.
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The Cost of Scientific Misconduct
April 14, 2010
Scientists are facing increasing temptations to publish questionable results. Ethicists are exploring the roots of misconduct, and researchers wonder what can be done about the problem.
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Truth or Lies
August 17, 2009
A new study raises the question of whether being honest is a conscious decision at all.
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Roboethics Redux
July 31, 2009
After Fox News misrepresents a military robot’s dietary habits, the world muses over what ethical behavior means for intelligent programs and machines.
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Week in Review: May 29
May 29, 2009
Stem cell guidelines from on high, geoengineering on the cheap, how genetic engineering could have created a new model organism, and the evolution of big brains.
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Week in Review: May 1
May 01, 2009
Swine flu looms large, a study finds prayer has no effect on medical treatment, Obama speaks at the National Academy of Sciences, neuroscientists plan to beef up Wikipedia, and a Republican senator switches to the Democratic Party.
diplomacy, disease, ethics, information, pandemics, politics
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Hungry for Land
April 27, 2009
Growing food in foreign lands has a long history. But the 21st century version of outsourced agriculture presages something fundamentally new.
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Week in Review: April 24
April 26, 2009
Fire bombings over animal research, Jim Carrey and the anti-vaccine movement, fossil of walking seal discovered, senator proposes science envoys, and transcription mapped.
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Letter to Obama
January 16, 2009
Forty-nine American Nobel laureates and other distinguished American scientists call the president's attention to the importance of increasing funding for scientific research.
democracy, ethics, funding, governance, law, policy, politics
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Of Primates and Personhood
December 12, 2008
Will according rights and "dignity" to nonhuman organisms halt research?
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Turning a Blind Eye
September 25, 2008
An image said to reveal an "unknown" tribe instead exposes a history of our ignorance and greed.
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Carnivores Like Us
May 15, 2008
Humanity's rapidly increasing appetite for meat is fast becoming a matter of global consequence. Paul Roberts on the science, and morality, of our planet's modern palate.
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Rise of Roboethics
July 16, 2007
Grappling with the implications of an artificially intelligent culture.
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PZ Myers on Richard Dawkins
October 22, 2006
Richard Dawkins hasn't stopped his tirade against religion and its "dangerous nonsense"—he's fighting smarter. Has Darwin's rottweiler been house-trained?
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Egg On His Face
November 30, 2005
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
