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Twitter: perhaps a comment on society?
Twitter's website says that it's 'a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?' The video on the website (twitter.com) gives the example of a lady finding out about the daily...
Alan White Posted: 16 February 2009 3 comments
Keywords: Science & Technology, Worldviews & Culture,
Attenborough on Darwin
'Above all Darwin has shown us that we are not apart from the natural world - we do not have dominion over it. We are subject to its laws and processes as are all the other animals on earth to which indeed we are related.'So concluded Sir David Attenborough in the BBC's 'Charles Darwin and the Tree of...
John Hayward Posted: 3 February 2009 5 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Science & Technology,
21st-Century Eugenics
Last Wednesday, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the Autism Research Centre called for a national debate about the consequences of screening for autism spectrum disorder in the womb. Then on Friday came the news that the first baby in the UK tested before conception for a genetic form of breast cancer...
Megan Best Posted: 12 January 2009 No comments
Keywords: Health, Science & Technology,
Creationism Confusion
Despite coverage on four pages of today's Times (two paragraphs on the front page, the leader on p.2, the whole of p.3, and opinion piece opposite the letters), I was left wondering what it was that the Royal Society's Director of Education, Professor Michael Reiss, had in fact said about creationism.
John Hayward Posted: 12 September 2008 7 comments
Keywords: Science & Technology,
Prince Charles on GM
At least a couple of people have asked me what I think of the latest assertions by Prince Charles, who has warned that genetically modified crops pose "the biggest environmental disaster of all time."For a well argued response, I recommend Why Prince Charles is right – and wrong on GM in the New...
John Hayward Posted: 14 August 2008 No comments
Keywords: Science & Technology, The Environment,
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill
A couple of people have written to ask me what I make of the votes over the past couple of days on the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Given what I have written previously (see Of Mice and Men and Hybrid Embryo Research Breakthrough), it will come as no surprise that I find the...
John Hayward Posted: 21 May 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Science & Technology,
GM solution to world food crisis
Spiralling food prices around the world have sparked riots in several countries, including Egypt and Haiti, where several people have been killed, and have necessitated emergency action by the World Bank, who have warned that hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of starvation and 100 million people...
John Hayward Posted: 17 April 2008 5 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Science & Technology,
Hybrid Embryo Research Breakthrough
Last night we learned that, even though Parliament has not yet approved the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos, scientists at Newcastle University have created the first cow-human embryos. Concluding that this was not some sick April Fool's joke (the traditional noon deadline had already passed),...
John Hayward Posted: 2 April 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Science & Technology,
Of Mice and Men
"Respect for the religious beliefs of those who have fundamental concerns means we will have a free vote on the three new ethical issues on which the House has not previously taken a view: on whether admixed embryos are permitted within strict constraints; on the question of permitting 'saviour...
John Hayward Posted: 26 March 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Health, Science & Technology, Sex & Families,
robin williams on 7 Jun 2012
I find the use of technology in spreading the word of GOD very useful. We have been doing so by the use...
Jay on 8 Jun 2011
I believe that this is an issue that will not go away anytime soon. Many people are ignorant to the medium...
Cecilia C on 2 Jun 2011
I share much of John Hudson's comments on this case. I wonder if the doctor concerned should have obtained...