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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Group Two

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Last class we brought continued on with the idea of human "immortality."  As a class, we had many different view points.  Some wer...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Humanity Enhanced

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Before or after exam #2 tomorrow we'll preview our next read, Russell Blackford's Humanity Enhanced. His website is here . And his t...

Group 2 Study questions

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1. The idea of teleportation originated with Gene Roddenberry.            (False) 2. The biggest misconception about teleportation is...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Group 1 Study Guide Questions

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1. What two scientists are credited with the discovery of the structure of DNA? James Watson and Francis Crick 2. True/False: Ribosomes tr...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Group 3 Study Guide Questions

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1.T/F. There is as much biomass in the subsurface of the Earth as in the entire visible world. (True) 2.What are some key producers of g...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Group 1 Post

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After discussing the Quiz, we began going over late-posted questions and browsed through discussion questions on the different posts, includ...

Daily Quiz

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March 27 T/F 1. The idea of teleportation originated with Gene Roddenberry. 2. The biggest misconception about teleportation is that it...

Group 1- Chapter 10 Discussion

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I was not able to be in class on Tuesday, but I wanted us to have somewhere to post our questions! I am sure I missed a great discussion!
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Group 2

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On Tuesday, our discussion focused on the idea of longevity/immortality (at least in respect to age).  We bounced around the question, ...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Group 3 Ch. 11,12

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During the last class, primarily, our group was targeted with a thought-provoking question of whether we would want to live forever. In my o...
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Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future

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"Health authorities have struggled to convince the public that this is a crisis. In September, Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director of the ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Daily Quiz

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March 25 1. FQ: Name 1 of the 5 guiding ethical principles which are considered relevant to the social implications of emerging technologi...

Group 2: Peripatetic

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During our peripatetic experience, we started towards the KUC to get a map.  We felt the best place to start was to continue where we left o...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Group 3 Ch. 8,9 Peripatetic Experience

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During our peripatetic walk we have considered whether or not Ventor claimed that he had synthesized the ''first synthetic life'...
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Group 1 Chapters 8/9

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On Thursday, the class split off into outdoor groups in order to test the Peripatetic waters. It didn't prove difficult for us to mainta...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

Venter Sets His Sights on Aging and Death

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If you missed this, during Spring Break: "J. Craig Venter is the latest wealthy entrepreneur to think he can cheat aging and death. A...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Daily Quiz

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March 20 1. What does Venter think Hamilton Smith's work on restriction enzymes laid the groundwork for? 2. Why do most scientists w...

Group 1 Discussion of Chapters 6 and 7

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Our group did not discuss who would post for today, so I just want us to have something up! We were part of the class discussion that disc...
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Group 2

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We discussed the idea that life is an information system.  The information system of life gets its data and programming from DNA.  That thou...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Group 3

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We talked about the view on how humans and all other organisms are no different than computers. Each organism has characteristics according ...
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