Tags
Adverts ART Assisted Suicide birthday BookReview Bucktown Chicago childhood Christ church Cloning Covenant CT dignity dog embryos ESCR EverydayTheo Fiction Film Film funny hospice IVF Keller Lost me membership Misc MovieReview Novel OT Plato politics President's Council quote QuoteBoard random satire Stem Cell stories The Office Transhumanism TV WilberforceCategories
Archives
Monthly Archives: April 2009
An Important Task
In Christianity Today, Thomas Hibbs examines three recent films in order to tease out “one of the important tasks for a contemporary Christian approach to film.”
Posted in Film
Leave a comment
Comming Attraction
I’ve often recommended the novel My Sister’s Keeper as an interesting exploration of what the British call savior siblings — using reproductive technologies and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in order to have a child that can be an organ or … Continue reading
Embryo Research and Cloning
Over at The Daily Beast, “Neurobiologist Maureen L. Condic investigates 11 common arguments in favor of embryonic stem-cell research, and explains why science may not need the controversial technique, after all.” Well worth reading.
Yet Another Use for Twitter
A theater in suburban Chicago is hosting MuVChat, which allows audience members to twitter their thoughts about the movie for display on screen. “I’ve described it as a mash-up of ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000′ and Twitter,” said Rien Heald, the … Continue reading
President Obama’s Stem Cell Executive Order
Several members of the President’s Council on Bioethics have weighed in on the President’s Executive Order on Stem Cell Resarch. Although members of the President’s Council on Bioethics have been divided on this question and some of our colleagues disagree … Continue reading
My Favorite Magazine
Is Wired. Because of the breadth of reporting. Case in point, “The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist” from this month’s issue. Another great article is “High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the … Continue reading
Eternal Sunshine?
My friends at MercatorNet have a thoughtful piece on a new drug that may dull bad memories. We are only at the threshold of understanding how memory is integrated into our personal identity. Blunting the memory of trauma might bring … Continue reading
The Pursuit of Paradoxical Projects
Books & Culture has an interview with the always excellent Jean Bethke Elshtain where she discusses, among other things, her assertion: In our own liberal society at the moment, and in most of the Western democracies in general, we are … Continue reading
I’m Only A Little Surprised
. . . this hasn’t gotten more blowback. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been funding plotline placement in a handful of primetime shows.
Posted in TV
Leave a comment
Excellent article by Zinsser
William Zinsser writes on drafting and revising his On Writing Well over the past 35 years. HT: Justin Taylor
Posted in On Writing
Leave a comment