Science and technology

Not spilling the beans is a healthy choice

Mark Seery | 10 June 2008 | comment 5

It’s your trauma and you can keep it to yourself if you want to, no harm done, says a psychologist.

Oracles of Science

Michael Cook | 13 March 2008 | comment 10

Some scientists are out of their depth when they wade into philosophy and theology.

Overweight and over-hyped

Michael Cook | 29 February 2008 | comment 4

Panicking over the obesity epidemic won't help anyone.

A realistic strategy for fighting African AIDS

Matthew Hanley | 29 February 2008 | comment 39

Discussion of the African AIDS crisis is riddled with ideology. The evidence shows that utilitarian HIV prevention guidelines are failing. 

Mind and soul

Aaron Kheriaty | 29 November 2007 | comment 13

Psychiatry has typically shunned religion, but a unique forum at one university has them talking to each other - for the sake of the patient.

Protecting the pill

Carolyn Moynihan | 16 November 2007 | comment 18

Why does the medical establishment keep playing down the risks of oral contraceptives?

Red, blue and grey matter

Michael Cook | 20 September 2007 | comment 11

American neuroscientists claim that liberalism and conservatism are located in the brain, in the anterior cingulate cortex, to be precise.

Playing catch-up with scientific change

Stephen Buckle | 16 August 2007 | comment 3

One of the great cliches of modern journalism is that technology is racing far ahead of morals. A very convenient excuse, says a philosopher.

Virtue on the brain

Andrew Mullins | 26 July 2007 | comment 5

Neuroscience is demanding that we put good habits at the centre of child rearing.

Patenting life

Margaret Somerville | 21 June 2007 | comment 8

An American biologist's race to create artificial life raises knotty ethical questions.

The silver lining in the climate change cloud

Margaret Somerville | 18 May 2007 | comment 8

The risks of climate change offer a unique opportunity to have a serious ethical discussion -- whatever your ethics may be.

Death for sale is a step into the dark

Michael Cook | 09 May 2007 | comment 16

Suicide and the internet make a potent brew, as the work of one of the world's most prominent euthanasia campaigners shows.

Saintly scientists: Hate the disease, love the diseased

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 April 2007 | comment 11

The Frenchman who discovered trisomy 21 was heroically professional when he insisted it could be cured.

FOCUS ON TRANSHUMANISM
The quest for proactive evolution

Jerry Salyer | 08 July 2006 | comment 1

"Throw caution to the winds" is the motto of a technology-infatuated group which wants to improve the human race.

FOCUS ON TRANSHUMANISM
Merging man and machine

Bob Moniot | 07 July 2006

“Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.” Discuss and give examples from the theories of Ray Kurzweil.

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