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Modern science already offers ways to enhance your mood, sex drive, athletic performance, concentration levels and overall health. But is such medically driven self-improvement always a good idea? Nick Bostrom, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, believes it's time to open the ethical debate surrounding human enhancement - a term that is growing to include genetic, pharmaceutical and technological ways to improve our physical and mental abilities and even dramatically extend human life. He recently edited a collection of essays on the subject, Human Enhancement, and in an e-mail exchange explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Human Enhancement | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

FlyBy thinks that might be how it would feel if it watched the play WATERBOARD, an Institute for Intermediate Studies production. Club Oberon in Harvard Square will open the play on Sunday...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: A Tortured Affair | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...most obvious. Without doubt, it takes some degree of control to avoid sneaking a Coconut Congo Bar after 11 hours of not eating. However, the benefits of discipline in this context trickle down to multiple aspects of our lives. Speaking personally, it has helped me overcome the urge to open a new Gchat window every 45 seconds...

Author: By Bilal A. Siddiqui | Title: Days of Deprivation | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

With the grand opening of BoYo (“Bo”ston “Yo”gurt) in May, a third Berryline location flourishing in Fenway, and South Korean frozen dessert chain Red Mango set to open its first Boston location this fall, tangy frozen yogurt competition in Beantown has seen an uptick of late. And for at least one yogurt peddler, no time of year is busier than the beginning of a new fall semester. Whitney Chicoine, who has worked at Berryline’s Fenway location since its opening in June, said she noticed that...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fro-Yo Stores Crowd Boston | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...advertisement, submitted by Bradley Smith, founder of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, challenged readers to “provide, with proof, the name of one person killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.” It has been pulled, and will not run on other days this week as originally requested by Smith...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holocaust Ad Printed in The Crimson Elicits Outrage | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

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