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   * final wrap-up and departure
+=== Bioluddite conundrums ===
+  * what do you think [[http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/11/why-the-climate-corporation-sold-itself-to-monsanto.html|Climate Corporation being sold to Monsanto]]?
+  * should [[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/06/18/asia%E2%80%99s-food-security-conundrum-more-apparent-real.html
+|biotechnology be used to feed]] the growing population in Asia?
+  * [[http://bit.ly/R5E3Qh|would you like to be told]] that you are very likely to develop an incurable disease within a few years? Should a doctor automatically give such information to a patient? Genetic screening has raised this issue by giving doctors the ability to diagnose genetically related (but still untreatable) disorders…
+  * should we use [[http://fringejoyride.com/2013/12/23/human-invasive-interactions/|invasive species as a resource]]?
+  * when asked about the amount of medical help one would choose in a dire situation, most doctors choose to die at home without medical help, arguing for a quality of life rather than quantity. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-choose-die How should that affect the rest of our seemingly obvious choices about survival? Are doctors role models?
+  * in 2012, Target the consumer store sent baby coupons to a teenage girl who had not told her parents she was pregnant http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml What's the role of companies in our seemingly private bodily changes?