www.nybooks.com > Natalie de Souza
Editing Humanity’s Future
29 apr. 2021 - With CRISPR, our species can turn its inexorable will to control nature back onto itself. Eventually, we could guide human evolution. Does this mean that we should?
 · china · crispr · deafness · dna · ethics · eugenics · genetics · ivf-pgt · philosophy

hybridpedagogy.org > Shea Swauger
Our Bodies Encoded: Algorithmic Test Proctoring in Higher Education
2 apr. 2020 - Cheating is not a technological problem, but a social and pedagogical problem. Technology is often blamed for creating the conditions in which cheating proliferates and is then offered as the solution to the problem it created; both claims are false.
 · algorithmic-bias · black-struggle · calls-for-papers · education · educational-surveillance · educational-technology · eugenic-gaze · eugenics · facial-recognition · feminism · gender · plagiarism · proctoring · proctorio · racist-technology · sexual-violence · solutionism · surveillance · trans-rights · turnitin

decorrespondent.nl > Thomas Oudman
Hoe komen witte mannen toch zo geniaal, vragen witte mannen in de wetenschap zich af
28 jan. 2021 - Darwin deed jarenlang onderzoek voordat hij conclusies trok. Maar dat mannen intelligenter, energieker en geiler zijn dan vrouwen, stond voor hem al van tevoren vast. Pas sinds de komst van vrouwelijke wetenschappers worden oude, seksistische paradigma’s in de biologie langzaam afgebroken. Het toelaten van niet-witte perspectieven is de volgende horde.
 · academia · biology · black-struggle · diversity · eugenics · feminism · nature-nurture · science

thecorrespondent.com > Sanne Blauw
Race is a construct. So why is race science still around?
19 aug. 2020 - Race is a social construct, not a biological reality. Nonetheless, ancient theories of race have been resurfacing in recent years. Why is it happening? And why is it so dangerous? I asked science journalist Angela Saini, who wrote a book on the topic.
 · black-struggle · eugenics · identity · race-science