Stuff We Like: Moving forward, defining transhumanism, and debating health care reform

LIFE AFTER CAMPAIGNING
"5 Questions with: Charlie Wheelan" (Chicago Public Radio blog, Mar. 6, 2009)
After finishing sixth with 7 percent of the vote in the primary race to fill Illinois's Fifth District congressional seat, Charles Wheelan, PhD’98, goes back to living a normal life: "It feels like that post-final exam period in college, only I feel like I just finished three months of finals."

ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR
"What Is Transhumanism?" (Exception Magazine, Mar. 23, 2009)
In an editorial about technological progress and medical care, Russell Blackfrod and Parijata Mackey, '09, ask: "Is transhumanism too outlandish, too futuristic to be taken seriously?"

A CLOSER LOOK AT HEALTHCARE REFORM
"Should We Finesse One of Reform's Thorniest Issues?" (The Treatment blog, New Republic, Mar. 23, 2009)
Public-health-policy researcher Harold Pollack writes that the "proposed public health care plan's bargaining power over providers is a feature rather than a bug."

March 31, 2009

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