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A Complicated Answer To A Simple Question

By wwu2
November 1, 2014 - 15:51
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To begin, I would like to ask you some questions. Organic vegetable and pesticide-mutated vegetables, which one would you choose? However, if you have a budget constraint, then which one would you choose, cheap one or expensive one? Most people may pick what is beneficial to them. However, the reality is that the organic food is more expensive than the transgenic food. So what do you think is more important, the price or your health? Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation illustrates different factors woven into human’s attitude towards genetically modified potatoes.

Peter on DYing at 75

By peter
November 1, 2014 - 12:03
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I am both outraged and in agreement with Emmanuel.  I agree that our societal preoccupation with extending life as a goal in itself is ridiculous.  The American immortal is a concoction of the economy in the same way that we put youth and newness on a pedestal.  Life is not a quantity, it is a quality.

Zimbra Email Down

By smartinez
November 1, 2014 - 09:34
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Dear Proffesor Dalke,

 I am continuing to attempt to access the zimbra bryn mawr email ,but it continously refreshes to a page that says 504 Gateway Time-Out. I posted the essay on serendip though. 

Sincerely,

Selena Martinez

This Week's Work Oct. 31 - Nov. 7

By HSBurke
November 1, 2014 - 03:08
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Fri. 10/31: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Sun. 11/2:

(ICPR) Serendip posting is optional this week. Either post or bring to class some reflections on a particular idea or passage from the readings that you'd like to discuss in class. Your reflections can relate either to the Johnson, Singer, and Walters readings for Monday OR to the Price and Waldman readings for last week, which some of you will be reading for Monday. We'll spend some time on both sets of readings and we'll try to stay more focused on the readings in class.