Ethically Yours

An interesting video claiming that focusing math education on learning statistics would be better than trying to get students into calculus.  TED: Arthur Benjamin

http://scientopia.org/blogs/ethicsandscience/2011/04/06/how-can-you-have-a-university-without-a-philosophy-department/

“’Math is for boys’ stereotype still alive.”   Improve grades for minority students. “What does not kill you does not always make you stronger.”  Experimental Philosophy And Another License those Bioethicists

Lots of missing information here, but the initial numbers should raise some interesting questions or research ideas…   Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941:  Japan Surprise Attack on  Pearl Harbor 2,388 US Personnel Killed 1,178 US Personnel Wounded 21 US Ships Sunk, Beached, or Damaged 323 US Aircraft Destroyed or Damaged Dresden, February 14-15, 1945:  Allied [...]

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Interesting points raised by this little spoof….   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Robot Edition from Chad Meserve on Vimeo.

Rory Miller at CHIRON offers some good advice for how to read a book.  He also has some interesting comments related to early education.  The parts on reading are based on reading for “maximizing comprehension and retention", not on “pleasure.”   Good for those hard to understand math textbooks or philosophical works…not so good for rereading [...]

Stories Related to Military Ethics, Medical Ethics, and a bonus visual.  “US apologizes for infecting Guatemalans with STDs in the 1940s.”  Brought to us by the same doctor who ran the Tuskegee experiment, CNN reports on the “U.S. Public Health Service Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study of 1946-1948.”  "Things researchers find when looking for other [...]

Stories and Events Related to Military Ethics, Medical Ethics, and some fun.  "Forest, Maker of Celexa, to Pay More Than $313 Million to Settle Marketing Case." Natasha Singer from the NYT reports on the settlement where a pharmaceutical company illegally marketed a drug for off-label use.  The company was also accused of making payments to [...]

Many of us take it for granted that health care is readily available.  Yet for many people in the world, including the uninsured in the US, health care workers are not readily available.  I recently ran across an interesting website that may help people interested in providing or sharing community health care.  Hesperian:  Publishing for [...]