Reports

We'll sign up in class today for midterm group reports, in groups of 2 or 3. Indicate the topic & text you want to work on, if you have one in mind. If not, just put down your name. We'll take time during class for uncommitteds to get together and discuss topical possibilities. 

Reports will take the form of 15-minute presentations (or longer, if needed), plus discussion (be sure to give us at least a couple of discussion questions) and a quiz over your presentation (and over any material you'd like to assign for us to read in advance). Be relevant, interesting, and provocative. Have fun.

Groups, post 10+ pages of relevant text OR a link thereto, AND a 6+ question quiz on your report, at least a day prior to your designated reporting date; see "Step By Step Instructions to Embed a PDF On Blogger" below.


A bonus run to the group that volunteers to go first, a week from today (Feb 8).

• FEB 22 Kayla Bean, Ana Aponte-Berrios, Ilija Zecevic - euthanasia Thursday, Feb 22nd
• MAR 1 Alex Knight, Kimberly Warren, Zach Nix- Origin by Dan Brown
• FEB 20 Chelsea Able, Shay Linell - cryonics - no source yet    
• MAR 15 Clorissa Campbell, Cameron Oldham, Joseph Churchill- Priorities of Biomedical Ethics by Childress
• FEB 8 Vincent Lehman, Kimberly Edwards, and Kyle Jameson - Topic: Greatly extending human life.  Source: Finding Aging + a ted talks "A rodemap to end aging".
• FEB 27 Iman Abdel Khalek, Selwa Kanakrieh, Yazan Musleh-  Topic: Cloning, No sources yet (feb24th)
• MAR 13 Brittney Davis,Tariq McGruder Oryx and Crake
• FEB 15 Jonathan Cannon, Logan Eley: Will editing your baby's genes be mandatory? Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic 
• MAR 20 Katelyne Tatum: book: Brave New World