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Art All Over - The New Yorker - 2 views

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shared by markfrankel18 on 08 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • At what point does a widely shared yen for aesthetic engagement alter the character of that engagement? We’ve reached that point on many days at the Museum of Modern Art, where the crowds experience mainly crowdedness, and the Picassos and Pollocks take on the glazed miens of traumatized warriors. MOMA’s own planned expansion bodes an architecture keyed to crowd management, which explains the logic behind even the cruel demolition of the intimate former American Museum of Folk Art.
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Ethics Questions Arise as Genetic Testing of Embryos Increases - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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shared by markfrankel18 on 04 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Genetic testing of embryos has been around for more than a decade, but its use has soared in recent years as methods have improved and more disease-causing genes have been discovered.
  • But the procedure also raises unsettling ethical questions that trouble advocates for the disabled and have left some doctors struggling with what they should tell their patients. When are prospective parents justified in discarding embryos? Is it acceptable, for example, for diseases like GSS, that develop in adulthood? What if a gene only increases the risk of a disease? And should people be able to use it to pick whether they have a boy or girl?
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Is Economics More Like History Than Physics? | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Net... - 3 views

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shared by markfrankel18 on 21 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • markfrankel18 on 21 Aug 13
     
    "Is economics like physics, or more like history? Steven Pinker says, "No sane thinker would try to explain World War I in the language of physics." Yet some economists aim close to such craziness. Pinker says the "mindset of science" eliminates errors by "open debate, peer review, and double-blind methods," and especially, experimentation. But experiments require repetition and control over all relevant variables. We can experiment on individual behavior, but not with history or macroeconomics."
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