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The University of Oprah
Has anyone in the country--in the world--got an educational platform as large as Oprah's? Her power is enormous. She banks on the understanding that what women know determines how society rolls. A continuation of that concept is that the better educated women are, the better off society is. Unfortunately, education... (read the rest)
Pacino To Bring Kevorkian to the Silver Screen
So Jack Kevorkian's dream has come true. The flamboyant inventor of the Thanatron and part-time painter of rotting skulls will get his much longed for appearance on the silver screen. Barry Levinson the director who brought us the fictional, 'Homicide: Life on the Street', has recruited Al Pacino (Al Pacino!!)... (read the rest)
Interview with the Bioethicist
Okay, it's not quite as provocative as an Anne Rice novel...no vampires or anything, and not anywhere as long, but if you want to read about what our colleague Lisa Eckenwiler is doing at George Mason University, the Washington Examiner will tell you. Summer Johnson, PhD... (read the rest)
Stem Cell Treatment Tourism Reported on the Local News!
Southern Illinois Man Seeks Stem Cell Cure in China. That's the headline. From KFVS12, Live from the Heartland. Meanwhile, Midwesterners are raffling off big ticket items to make it possible for Chuck Melton, sufferer of a spinal cord injury, to make multiple trips to China, to receive umbilical cord stem... (read the rest)
Dr. Gupta Goes to Washington?
Reported by Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post yesterday, Obama administration officials have announced that Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN and CBS news fame has been offered the job of Surgeon General of the United States. Is Dr. Gupta going to leave behind the teleprompters and exotic locations for... (read the rest)
Smith and WaPo: What Does It Mean to Be a Good Science Journalist?
Within one 24 hour period last week, two articles discussing science journalism and questions of evidence versus interpretation appeared. The first was a Washington Post column by Deborah Howell which tried to make "sense of science reporting". In particular, what struck me from this column was a comment by... (read the rest)
The Brothers Emanuel
So, this isn't news (it originally aired June 16th this year)--but who wouldn't want to watch Ezekiel Emanuel, Chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the NIH, duke it out with his two brothers, Rahm--soon to be Chief-of-Staff for the Obama administration--and Ari, on whom the... (read the rest)
Stem Cell Update: Welcome New iPS Cell Lines!
While the media has been sidetracked with the Olympic games, the mental illness of the anthrax scientist, a hyped report about water on Mars, and drugs that turn mice into athletes, stem cells researchers have been quietly announcing truly spectacular work - the creation of 11 induced pluripotent stem (iPS)... (read the rest)
Bioethics and pop culture watch
Two recent items that probably don't mean a whole lot, but might be interesting in a bioethics-in-pop-culture kind of way: + Oprah's interview with the pregnant transsexual man scored big ratings. + And Tina Fey's surrogacy comedy Baby Mama easily topped the box office last weekend, delivering (!) more than... (read the rest)
Art Caplan on Ben Stein's "Expelled"
Over at MSNBC, Art writes that Ben Stein's intelligent design documentary is not just bad -- it's immoral: Rarely has a movie subtitle so capably assessed a movie’s content as does "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." There is not a shred of intelligence on display in this just released "documentary"... (read the rest)
About that study of teens and STDs
Recently the results of a study conducted by the CDC splashed across news headlines: "1 in 4 teen girls has an STD." Many of the major news networks went on to include a handful of other statistics from the study, which were released on Tuesday at a press conference in... (read the rest)
Reading McLuhan today
From a Nick Carr piece in the Guardian about reading Marshall McLuhan in light of the modern internet (emphasis added): Although he is often presented as a glorifier of technological progress, he painted a subtle, sometimes disturbing picture of the future. In one striking sentence from Understanding Media, he offered... (read the rest)
You're wonderful. Now change.
Most of us are just beginning to become acquainted with the age of enhancement, but there's one group that's already very familiar with it: celebrities. Famous people have been tweaking their appearances -- both physical and virtual -- since, well, probably forever. And while those of us who are... (read the rest)
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