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	<description>Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing--and will change--human beings in fundamental ways.</description>
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		<title>VSEL Technology and the Future of Regenerative Medicine: An Interview with Dr. Mariusz Ratajczak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very small embryonic like stem cells (VSELs) are purified from adult tissues and are potential sources of stem cells for application in regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies. In contrast to embryonic stem cells (ESCs) their derivation does not require destruction of embryos and thus are non-controversial from an ethical point of view.]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/02/08/vsel-technology-and-the-future-of-regenerative-medicine-an-interview-with-dr-mariusz-ratajczak/</link>
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		<title>Morality of the Machine: Sentience, Substance, and Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As computers begin to reach a human level of intelligence, some consideration must be given as to their concept of ethics. Appropriately aligning moral values will mean the difference between a contributing member of society and a sociopath.]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/02/07/morality-of-the-machine-sentience-substance-and-society/</link>
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		<title>Rationality Training: Call for a Global Approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through the due exercise of reason, human thought processes can approximate rational thinking. Rationality skills are a prerequisite for humans to understand how the world works and in order to be able to make better decisions about how to act in the world. Progress in science and technology would not have been possible without the human ability for rational reasoning.]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/02/06/rationality-training-call-for-a-global-approach/</link>
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		<title>Brave Bioart 2: Shedding the Bio, Amassing the Nano, and Cultivating Emortal (Posthuman) Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contemporary biotechnologies, and especially emergent technologies, are taking art into wet yet nimble associations with science fiction, science fraction and science fact.  Bioart and its subsets are working with genetics, cloning and hybridization, and its practitioners are “co-creators” alongside the gods, stirring up moral issues, and portraying the role of lab-technician, scalpel in hand.]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/02/02/brave-bioart-2-shedding-the-bio-amassing-the-nano-and-cultivating-emortal-posthuman-life/</link>
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		<title>The Ethics of Boosting Animals from Sentience to Self-Aware Consciousness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question of boosting the intelligence of animals other than humans, to the level of self-awareness and consciousness, is one that cannot be considered in isolation from the general process at work in the social and speculative movement known as Transhumanism. ]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/02/01/the-ethics-of-boosting-animals-from-sentience-to-self-aware-consciousness/</link>
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		<title>The Molecular Biology of Compassion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of scientific studies have examined the possible genetic causes underlying brain/mind disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, violence and criminality, and psychopathy. The more positive side of human behavior, with aspects such as altruism and empathy, has been studied much less – even though these are obviously much more valued from both transhumanist and typical humanist perspectives.]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/01/31/the-molecular-biology-of-compassion/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Race Against The Machines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are we on the verge of totally new social and economic paradigm brought about by the increasing power of computation in our machines?]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/01/29/book-review-race-against-the-machines/</link>
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		<title>Augmenting Humans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week has brought several interesting articles about human enhancement. Although much of this technology is still in the research phase, some tech is beginning to make it to the market.]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/01/27/augmenting-humans/</link>
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		<title>Four Legs Good: Animals and the Posthuman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Claude Lévi-Strauss famously stated, “animals are good to think.” For the last ten years, scholars have been thinking about animals very seriously, particularly about the place of non-human creatures vis-à-vis the “posthumanities”.]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/01/26/four-legs-good-animals-and-the-posthuman/</link>
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		<title>Occupy &#8212; Brand of the People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard that the entire left was selling products under the Occupy name my natural reaction was disgust. I am very critical of liberals because I have experienced their hypocrisy on a firsthand basis.]]></description>
		<link>http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/01/24/occupy-brand-of-the-people/</link>
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