First Humans to Receive ID Chips
"Eight people will be injected with silicon chips Friday, making them scannable just like a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket checkout line."
Big Brother Gets Volunteers
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Skanky Teen Singer Barbie?
"Ruth Handler, legendary founder of Mattel Toys and creator of Barbie, the company's most successful product, died last week, thereby prompting the most urgent cultural debate since Botox made the headlines. Was Barbie, as feminists said, poisonous for young girls' self-image and the cause of an epidemic of anorexia and bulimia? Or was she – as conservatives insisted, taking the view that 'the enemy of my feminist enemy is my friend' – simply good childhood fun?"
"Actually, both sides are wrong. Barbie may not have prompted a national crisis in female self-esteem, but she's no innocent either. The vampy fashion doll helped to bring about the sexualization of childhood, evidence of which is everywhere today. In truth, Barbie is the not-so-spiritual godmother of Britney Spears."
Reply to “Too Close to Call?”
[Today, I welcome the guest commentary of my roommate Jerry Nora. He finished his baccalaureate work this week with three degrees: physics, philosophy, and molecular biology. He is highly devoted to the study of bioethics, which he will pursue as a MD/PhD student next year. He is former president of the University of Pittsburgh's Students for Life group and has participated in efforts to bring a chapter of Do No Harm to Pitt. – Funky]
This is a reply to "Too Close to Call?" posted Wednesday, April 17
The chief objections to Casey's gubernatorial race that Funky Dung raised are that (1) he's not as experienced as Rendell or would be as effective in getting the commonwealth's economy moving, and that (2) even though Rendell is pro-choice, a governor has little sway in bioethics. I'll take on these two objections in turn.
Astrobiology
Antifreeze Discovered in Space
"Ethylene glycol, the chemical in automobile antifreeze, has been discovered in an interstellar cloud of gas and dust. The compound is also involved the formation of complex sugar molecules that are necessary for life."
McClone?
Scientists Clone Calf From Dead Cow
"The researchers on Thursday introduced K.C., a healthy female Angus-Hereford cross delivered earlier this week. Her genetic material was extracted from the kidney region of a cow two days after it was killed."