Ethical debates with Genetically modified foods (GMFs)
by In recent years, the ways of artificial selection got diversified. People now can mutate the genes of plants directly through radiation and recombinant technology. The …
Author: Zhouyi Qian
Science and Democracy
The debate between science and democracy can become heated. Science, on one hand, usually proceed with a calm and logical manner. When science is used …
Science and Social context
With this week’s lesson concerning how Darwin developed his ideas on the theory of evolution and natural selections, I realized that social context plays an …
Science/Technology and Word Wars
There were many wars in human history, and some of them are big, which we call them world wars. The most well-known world wars are …
“The Two Cultures” in universities
This week, we talked about the article “The Two Cultures”. In this article, the author explores the issues of multiple cultures in the academic area. …
Feminism and science
In this week’s reading, we talked about feminist critique of science. In this topic, we explore how females are treated in the scientific fields and …
Do we control technology or technology controls us?
This week we read a new novel called Frankenstein. This novel talks about a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who created life with the intention of …
Philosophy in Scientific Revolution
This week, we talked about the concept of scientific revolution and what did mean to the past society. As the period of scientific revolution goes, …
How technology evolves?
In this weeks’ discussion, we talked about the philosophical understanding of what constitutes as real science and how science and technology developed over time. If …
How is technology tricky?
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ~Aldous Huxley For the past several hundreds of years, since the invention …