“Cheddar Man” and Bad Science

There was a recent discovery announced two weeks ago in Great Britain that made by analyzing the mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) from the skeleton of a Mesolithic man, discovered in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England. According to the announcement, what researchers discovered in their…

“Designer Babies” and Society

With recent class discussions and readings on eugenics and how it is still prevalent in modern society led me to further look into recent accounts of this concept. A recent local news article by Desert News Utah has presented the positive effects of new gene editing tool…

Interdisciplinary approach

People are starting to realize that the world is incredibly connected and that an interdisciplinary approach to…

Interdisciplinary Study For Future Artificial Intelligence Development

DNA Rights and the Earliest British Man

This week, I read an interesting article titled ‘Cheddar Man,’ Britain’s Oldest Skeleton…

Local and Indigenous knowledge are part of Science also.

In class this week, my fellow students talked about science as a value free study. Although there may be different believes in scientific theory, there should be no different culture in science. We now ask the question Is modern…

Climate Change: from Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Generalist Training

Expanding Subramaniam’s Theatre

People tend to separate CS from other sciences is because it’s man-made: it does not occur in nature like chemistry or physics; or they group it with mathematics, because at its heart it’s the theory of computation. But why do those distinctions matter? Is it even important…

The Haunting of White Privilege

Banu Subramaniam takes creative liberties to address the essence of past scientific ideals as ghost. A word that becomes more appropriate the way she describes these ideals as “haunting”, being unsubstantial but constantly having an impact in the way scientific reasoning is…

“Western Science” and its Influence in Representations on Popular Media

While one of the goals of the course is examining the question of what science really is, this week saw a focus on science as an organ of Western society, steeped in Eurocentrism. We especially focused on…