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Imagine “climate editing” — a potential massive future network of precise, local, and mutually-coordinated interventions.
By Nir Eyal Last week, over 200 experts called on the next Director General of the World Health Organization to prioritize factory farming in an open letter. Announced in articles in the New York Times and The Lancet, the…
An opportunity for graduate students and young scholars; application deadline March 11 Applications are invited for participating in a five day working conference and summer school on ethical issues posed by randomized trials in development…
Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her subjects have included John Ashbery and Edward Albee, among many others. Before joining the magazine, she was a senior editor at Lingua Franca…
Facebook RSVP When: Tuesday, April 21, 6:00pm Where: Harvard campus, Science Center E Oxford and Harvard philosopher Derek Parfit is described by Encyclopaedia Britannica as “the most important moral philosopher of the 20th and early 21st centuries”. The New Yorker called his books…
You are invited to the Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Society 2015 Conference: “Big Brother Is Watching: Paternalism and Bioethics” Saturday, March 28th, 3.30-6.30pm, Harvard Hall 104 RSVP Here Coffee and desserts will be served A panel discussion and talks by…
Harvard College Effective Altruism presents: The Past, Present, and Future of Violence with Steven Pinker Monday, November 17th, 7 PM Science Center D RSVP here. Contact Harvard College Effective Altruism at harvardea@gmail.com.
Join us for a Skype call and Q&A with the founder/CEO of AMF! Monday, October 27 at 5pm, Sever 102. RSVP here.
From Harvard College Effective Altruism: The Risks of Biotechnology, with George Church Monday, Oct. 20, 5.30pm, Sever 102 Genetic manipulations can reintroduce extinct viruses or create viruses much deadlier than ever before. What are the…
As indicated in the revised poster below, the event with Elie Hassenfeld, scheduled for tonight, October 13th at 8pm, has been moved to Lowell Junior Common Room. Apologies for the hassle!
