- Scientists develop experimental silicon-based hippocampus replacement. World’s first known brain prosthesis. Any device that mimics the brain clearly raises ethical issues. The brain not only affects memory, but your mood, awareness and consciousness – parts of your fundamental identity, says ethicist Joel Anderson at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.
- Serbian prime-minister assassinated by mafia?
- Death rate for eating disorder not unusual Anorexia nervosa: Mayo Clinic study looks at patients over 60-year period
- Serbian Prime Minister Assassinated: The Serbian government said later in a statement that a Belgrade-based criminal group was behind the assassination. It called the group the Zemun clan, named after a Belgrade municipality, and said it was responsible for many murders and kidnappings during the past few years. It also named several alleged leading figures. It reminds me of the line in ‘The Godfather’: “If history has taught us anything, it is this: Anyone can be killed.”
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