The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS In Stephen Jay Gould essay the "The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS" informs the reader about a deadly disease killing humankind. We the humans are at a time where we should not ignore AIDS. AIDS is at threat to humans today. So far there is no cure to this dea...

Richard Preston's The Hot Zone is an excellent nonfiction account of a deadly virus from the central rain forests of Africa that suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington DC. The Virus is highly contagious and has no cure. This book describes many frightening encounters with this virus and ...

It is a horrific sight of sauntering through an over-populated urban city where many of its inhabitants are plagued with disease. These ailments, which cause the public to alter from a customary lifestyle, tend to have not only a detrimental effect on general health but also can induce premature de...

THE ETHICS OF CLONING "We simply cannot stand by and allow humans to be copied. That would be breaking through an ethical barrier that goes far beyond even the barrier of the atomic bomb." Juergen Ruettgers, German Research Minister As we approach the three year marker of the first o...

Human Nature: The Savage Within Us If you compare Mother Theresa and Jeffrey Dahmer, it's difficult to believe that they are the same species. But which of them is an example of the human race in its purest form? Are humans inherently good or evil? With such a broad spectrum of ...

Cloning, Ethical? The cloning of an adult sheep and the possibility that human cloning could soon follow has raised some serious ethical questions. Some people object on a purely ethical level while others favor cloning solely for the scientific advances it will produce. In the debate over cloni...

AI: Artificial Intelligence Film Review Description and Critical Discussion: This is because a robot, if it is to have human level intelligence and ability to learn from its experience, needs a general world view in which to organize facts. It turns out that many philosophical problems take new ...