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Peoples.. Sinds gisteren ben ik met mijn scriptie bezig.. Hoewel ik genoeg lees-stof heb, sta ik altijd open voor nieuwe input. Mochten jullie dus ergens iets tegenkomen over nieuwe biotechnologische technieken (bij voorkeur kloneren) en hun gevolgen/invloeden voor/op de maatschappij, dan hoor ik het graag. Ik verwacht niet dat jullie stof gaan opzoeken, maar mocht er een lichtje gaan branden mbt dit onderwerp of mocht je toevallig iets tegenkomen, laat het me weten..
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Lebber, F

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Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science | Online

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“In January 2003 thousands of us from across the world gathered in Porto Alegre in Brazil and declared–reiterated–that “Another World Is Possible.” A few thousand miles north, in Washington, George W. Bush and his aides were thinking the same thing.

Our project was the World Social Forum. Theirs–to further what many call the Project for the New American Century.”

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Kevin Bankston, EFF’s Equal Justice Works/Bruce J. Ennis Fellow, sez, “This is an incredible, two part series in Salon about cops spying on political activists post-9/11. It is an absolute must read.”

“What we’re seeing is something much larger in scale and danger than anything that occurred in the 1950s and 1960s,” he says. “That’s because of computers. Now, instead of having these agencies working in semi-isolation or occasional cooperation, there’s the equivalent of the great Alaska pipeline running between them, and the information flows in both directions. In addition, in the 1950s or ’60s, it took weeks of pavement pounding and doorknobbing for the FBI or police or military to collect personal information about people, the kind of information you need to put them under surveillance. Today that kind of information can be obtained by a few computer keystrokes. The harassment potential is much greater.”

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LANGUAGE, BIOLOGY, AND THE MIND A Talk with Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus is a young research psychologist whose interest in the literature of biology and resulted in new and interesting ideas about the biological basis of mind. He believes that “the mechanisms that build our brains are just a special case of the mechanisms that build the rest of our body. The initial structure of the mind, like the initial structure of the rest of the body, is a product of our genes.”

His goal is twofold: (a) “to track closely the progress in genetics, and try to think about the question of how a tiny number of genes can lead you from an ancestral chimpanzee view of the world to a human view of the world”; and (b) “to rethink linguistics as a question of adapting from primate systems that are already in place. Instead of assuming that everything about language is sui generis—independent of the rest of the cognitive system—or the opposite extreme, which the anti-nativists might assume—that there’s nothing special about language—I’m assuming there’s something special about language, but that it’s a variation on a theme.”

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Technology and biology are converging fast. The result will transform everything from engineering to art - and redefine life as we know it.

The New Facts of Life
Scientific advances point to a startling conclusion: The nonliving world is very much alive.