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Article Announcement: Silicon Valley’s Creepy Obsession with Longevity

Article Announcement: Silicon Valley’s Creepy Obsession with Longevity

by Heather Zeiger | Aug 7, 2017 | Announcements, Science, Technology

Originally, I wanted to write an article about parabiosis since it was a hot topic in the news. But, it turns out what the company Ambrosia is doing isn’t exactly parabiosis. It’s more akin to expensive blood transfusions. Parabiosis involves attaching two...
Article Announcement: Turning Life into a Game

Article Announcement: Turning Life into a Game

by Heather Zeiger | Aug 7, 2017 | Announcements, Society, Technology

I’ve written critically on how social media and the gaming industry uses psychological hacks to get people hooked, but is there a positive side to hacking our brains? Gamification is using gaming techniques to motivate users to do things they may not otherwise...
Article Announcement: Technology and Addiction: How Big Gaming Hacks into Our Psyches

Article Announcement: Technology and Addiction: How Big Gaming Hacks into Our Psyches

by Heather Zeiger | May 3, 2017 | Uncategorized

In this second article on technology addiction at MercatorNet, I look at the data from Adam Alter’s book Irresistible: The rise of addictive technologies and the business of keeping us hooked.
Article Announcement: Addiction or compulsion: Our love/hate relationship with technology

Article Announcement: Addiction or compulsion: Our love/hate relationship with technology

by Heather Zeiger | Apr 5, 2017 | Announcements, Book Review, Science, Society, Technology

This first of two articles I review Sharon Begley’s book Can’t Just Stop: An Investigation into Compulsions. Begley says that our need to check our cell phone every five minutes is not an addiction, but a compulsion. Begley is a science writer and has...
Article Announcement: Manipulating Science News

Article Announcement: Manipulating Science News

by Heather Zeiger | Feb 15, 2017 | Announcements, Science

I have a new article at MercatorNet on embargoes on scientific reporting and how they can go wrong. When journalists report on breaking science news, they actually receive the journal article information and press release a week before the research is published in a...
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  • Embryoids: Unique Entities or Human Embryos

    Embryoids are made from pluripotent stem cells and have many of the features of embryos, but are not technically embryos. So, what are they and is research with embryoids ethical?

  • Do You Like Me?

    Studies continue to show that teen girls have higher incidence of depression and anxiety when they spend more time on social media.

  • Boys Beating Girls (as in boys out-number girls)

    My Casualty Report in Salvo Issue #46 is on modern-day eugenics. In several countries, the ratio of boys born compared to girls is well above the naturally occurring ratio…

  • Young & Restless

    My Casualty Report in Salvo Magazine (Issue #45) gives recent statistics on issues affecting our culture. My latest Casualty Report is politically incorrect even though the statistics are from well-known journals and media sources.

  • Can We Trust Killer Robots and Drones to Act Ethically?

    New technologies create geographic distance between the combatants and the war zone, but some people are concerned that it also create emotional distance.

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