BioTech & Human Enhancement Theory/Ethics

Tuskegee Study - Research Implications

Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects or the “Common Rule”

The Tennessee Municipal League (TML) is a voluntary, cooperative organization established by the cities and towns of the state for mutual assistance and improvement.

On the occasion of the first major survey of the work of CARROLL DUNHAM, which runs through February 2, 2003, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, ROBERT STORR looks back on the career of this idiosyncratic artist who has spent over two decades “exploring Surrealism’s more id-enriched recesses.”I FIRST SAW A WORK BY CARROLL DUNHAM NEARLY TWENTY YEARS AGO on a wall in Dorothea Rockburne’s studio. I was there to rehearse the execution of one of her wall drawings, Neighborhood, for the Museum of Modern Art’s 1984 show “A Century of Modern Drawing.” The Dunham in question was a smallish

Recently, I was visiting a first-time pregnant friend and, without a second thought, I took my thumb and index finger and wiped my 2 year olds snot from un

Organization: Family Achievement Center Associates Name & Discipline: Rachel Kuenzli, SLP & Shawna DeHaan, OTR/L Presenting Problem: PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified, or PDD-NOS, for short, is a condition on the spectrum that exhibits some, but not all, of the symptoms associated with classic autism.) Client Background: 3-year-old male “W” diagnosed with […]

Biology can explain but not excuse our worst behavior. Testosterone may drive a vicious warlord, but social triggers shape his actions. David Barash reviews “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst” by Robert M. Sapolsky.

Robert Stern is an ice cool metaphysician brooding on Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Deleuze and the whole of nineteenth century philosophy. He has written Hegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object, Transcendental Arguments and Scepticism: Answering the Question of Justification, Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegelian Metaphysics and Understanding Moral Obligations: Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard. He thinks the British Hegelians were heavy dudes and that his own metaphysics isn't house-trained. He thinks McDowell and Peirce plough the Hegelian groove and that Hegel is the funky bridge between Kant and Frege. Holy Hegeliana Batman! Published on: Jul 21, 2012 @ 06:42

The Don Young “wetbacks” incident offers an object lesson about the dramatically different levels of credibility and attention so often afforded the same member of Congress inside the Capitol versus out in the actual world. The sea captain’s face and craggy voice of Alaska’s solitary House member was all over the cable news networks Friday […]

An exemplary method for handwritten character generation includes receiving one or more characters and, for the one or more received characters, generating handwritten characters using Hidden Markov Models trained for generating handwritten characters. In such a method the trained Hidden Markov Models can be adapted using a technique such as a maximum a posterior technique, a maximum likelihood linear regression technique or an Eigen-space technique.

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Fired from St. Louis Magazine 14 years ago, Steve Friedman went straight to New York, where he coated his Midwestern psyche with enough urbane nonchalance to nail a job as a GQ editor.

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