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Why you should donate your body parts
by Michy Lynn
Daily, there are people who indeed do things that might put their own life at risk in order to protect or save the life of another. These are good people... helpful people... modern-day heroes.
Yet, currently there are 92,000 people who are dying and on the organ transplant lists-and many of these same modern-day heroes are not nor have ever considered becoming organ donors-something that doesn't even
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Yes
In our society, human cloning is a stepping stone to defining the ethical boundaries of science. The
No
by Tricia Lye
At the rate at which science understands everything from stem cells to cloning, it would be a
"It's not going to happen" will be the short and tragic answer to the question if governing bodies throughout the world continue to
by Ann E. Smith
As a popular 80s song proclaimed, "Everybody's working for the weekend." And to some degree, it's true. Many people kick off the weekend
Reflecting on prisons in the United States today, we are faced with an ugly truth. They are simply trying to keep criminals off the
THE NODDING DONKEY
One of my first impressions when relocating to the north Texas plains was the proliferation of strange mechanical
- The meanings behind flower colors
- Plant profiles: Southern marsh orchid
- Overview of Australian species of the Brachychiton genus
- Plant profiles: Hovea
- What are ananas comosus?
- Plant profiles: Australian cordylines
- Trees of Australia: Salmon gum
- Who were the Aryans?
- How culture and the natural environment are interrelated
- The inductive approach to cultural anthropology
- The anthropology of political movements
- Aztec gods: The legend of Quetzacoatl
- Reasons for Japan's low birth rate and aging population
- Food procurement systems: An introduction
- How brain scans work
- Stem cells can treat traumatic brain injury in children
- Conditions detected in the brain using CT scan
- Mobile intraoperative electron-beam radiation extends cancer patient life expectancy
- Specialty areas of biomedical engineering
- Microfluidics: A ten minute blood test
- History of the discovery of anesthesia
- Understanding the seven perspectives of modern psychology
- James Marcia and the four identity statuses theory
- What do you know about the power of white as a colour?
- Animal intelligence: Rote behavior vs. creative intelligence in dolphins
- Book reviews: Cities of Dreams, by Stan Gooch
- The difference between being shy and being rude
- Buying lottery tickets: Reflecting on the behavior of those who play the lottery
