Blogposts tagged 'Debate'

New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions.

The search for perfection

Publication date: April 2002

Summary

Dr Donald Bruce, Director of the Church of Scotland's Society Religion and Technology Project, speaking on the dangers of treating genetic modification as a way to 'perfect' ourselves and the world around us.

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Article tagged as: debate, new scientist lectures, science

New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions.

What is 'natural'?

Publication date: 16th April 2002

Summary
Aubrey Manning concluded that because there is no clear dividing line between our ape-ancestors and modern humans and their inventions that everything, including machine guns and space shuttles were 'natural'. But that still meant we had to behave with responsibility

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New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions

Publication date: 16th April 2002

Summary
Patrick Holden made a plea for more intuitive and emotional elements to be integrated in our too-rationalistic decision-making, and that we have much to learn from nature as well as to take from it.

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Article tagged as: debate, nature, new scientist, reports

New Scientist & Greenpeace Science debates

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions

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Article tagged as: darwin, debate, ecosystems, nature, new scientist

New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions.

What is 'natural'?

Publication date: 16th April 2002

Summary
Chris Leaver explained how all food crops were the products of human intervention and made a plea for genetic modification to be used to feed the world, particularly with a growing population.

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Article tagged as: debate, genetic engineering, GM food, nature, new scientist, reports
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