Category: Science
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Tuesday Open Comments
Okay, I admit it – I was assigned some office work in junior high and was able to sneak a peek at my testing file when the counselor wasn’t looking. Fortunately for me, the scores didn’t indicate that I was a moron (which is probably why I can never vote Democrat, but I digress.) In…
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Ethical Dilemma
A doctor who studies brain functions has an interesting problem related to his research (beyond the actual research itself). In his studies, he develops various chemicals, which he injects into rats in order to study how their brains process information and react to various stimuli. The ethical dilemma isn’t what he does to the rats…
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Open Comments – Monday Christmas Aftermath Edition
I came across this interesting story last night. In early 1934, Clarence Hickman, a Bell Labs engineer, had a secret machine, about six feet tall, standing in his office. It was a device without equal in the world, decades ahead of its time. If you called and there was no answer on the phone line…