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We may make snap judgments, or mull things carefully. Possibly two kinds of thought: intuitive, based on past experience; and rational, rule-based, to evaluate intuition or come into play when decisions are difficult.

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Scientists can clone cells from tissues taken from dead people who donated their bodies for medical research. Much of it is frozen stored tissue, and cells can be viable for up to thirty years. UK, not US.

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"The goals of this project are to gather testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, to organize them in meaningful ways, to make them widely available online, and to preserve them there in perpetuity."

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the author's own ideas plus links to other major Powerpoint strategies; he says, and I agree, do not have things you will end up reading to audience; think about how to engage audience

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athletic enhancements, diagnostic refinements, bionic disease cures or stabilization--these may cause a class divide in the near future; well written essay; need for "ability studies," not just "disability studies."

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it's always a good idea to study up on behavioral cues that will help you fit in, and it's a mark of respect to do this kind of background research before traveling to a new place

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Rebecca Walker has written the Mommy Dearest of the feminist movement about her mother, Alice Walker.

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Culture, mind reading, tool use, morality, emotions, personality

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chilling report about 2002 conference FBI held with behavioral psychologists, prefiguring much of US interrogration practice to come

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extensive set of web links on torture; international; kept up to date

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Kenneth S. Pope resigned APA over policy on psychologists participating in the planning or implementation of detainee interrogation. Here is his important, long bibliography on topic.

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interview with author of I Am a Strange Loop, about what "I" means to us humans in age of cyborgs.

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liberal reproductive and embryo legislation; I am not sure about saviour siblings, having a baby for sake of surgically saving another child; embryo ok, but more than that? a heavy existential burden for all

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surprising and profound video essay from self-advocate for people with cognitive disabilities; make sure to see all videos in this series; contribution to autobiographical media

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"Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them"; useful analysis of something most of us have observed about others and possibly about ourselves

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A brief introduction to Giddens' general approach, plus more detail on his ideas about self, gender and identity in modern societies; great mother site for culture and media theory

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"scientists are learning to harness the body's own power to regenerate itself, with astonishing results." Includes a powder to sprinkle on an amputation, say a finger, so the finger will regenerate itself--it's already happened.

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Barthes writes on the power relations, temporality, and states of consciousness and desire involved in this moment. He does not see that is it mostly women who wait.

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links to blogs that analyze reactions to Obama's speech on race, furthering the discussion of race in US today; it has been a long time since I have seen such a sensible, full discussion of race in public discourse here

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"interrogating contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies"; postcolonial, race, cultural studies theory, with a focus on the politics of everdaylife

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