tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14265376436338034782011-04-21T14:43:43.724-07:00ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.brittany benjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545899399979647939noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1426537643633803478.post-13117572581448638672009-03-18T06:22:00.000-07:002009-03-18T07:00:40.997-07:00Last week, <a style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/designerdebate.html?cid=151335993#comment-151335993"><span style="font-style: italic;">Wired</span> Magazine</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"> </span>reported about a Los Angeles clinic that allowed parents to choose the eye color and hair color of their future babies.<br /><br />The response was frantic-- the clinic shut down. Transhumanist John Hughs doesn't know why:<br /><p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;"> <strong>"Hughes:</strong> Insofar as the choices are eye color and hair color, that's not going to exacerbate inequalities in society. It's a minor way in which greater wealth allows more reproductive choice, but it shouldn't be a reason to override reproductive freedom. </p><div style="font-style: italic;"> </div><p style="text-align: left; font-style: italic;"> If PGD had the ability to double the IQs of children — which it doesn't — then that would be the sort of inequality that warranted a social policy against it. I'm worried about that situation, not hair and eye color.<span>"</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">I imagine Mr. Hughs has never seen Jane Elliott's "Eye of the Storm"-- you know, that film about a teacher who tells her third graders that blue-eyed people are superior to brown-eyed people? Thanks to Frontline, you can watch the whole thing (or read about it) here: <a style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/</a></p>The results are fairly jarring.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 211px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ohc0pJG-Ks0/ScD7frPtqpI/AAAAAAAAACE/rZd7XzaPZww/s320/eyestorm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314524081900333714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><img src="file:///Users/brittben/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1426537643633803478-1311757258144863867?l=brittanybenjamin.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>brittany benjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545899399979647939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1426537643633803478.post-90142420597018112912009-03-07T19:28:00.001-08:002009-03-07T20:01:57.324-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">it's time for a teeth cleaning.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ohc0pJG-Ks0/SbM7-XDY-sI/AAAAAAAAABc/WlmnPHBmSL0/s1600-h/HarvardDental"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 255px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ohc0pJG-Ks0/SbM7-XDY-sI/AAAAAAAAABc/WlmnPHBmSL0/s320/HarvardDental" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310654328126110402" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">dental hospital.<br /><span class="viabasic">Dannes-Camiers, France.</span><br /><span class="viabasic">circa 1915.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and maybe some group therapy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ohc0pJG-Ks0/SbM8a7qd_WI/AAAAAAAAABk/uQncL3LrS1I/s1600-h/IMG_0136.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ohc0pJG-Ks0/SbM8a7qd_WI/AAAAAAAAABk/uQncL3LrS1I/s320/IMG_0136.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310654818990030178" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">pathologists.<br />massachusetts state hospital.<br />1917.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">and don't forget about physical exertion.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ohc0pJG-Ks0/SbM_dgOYkDI/AAAAAAAAABs/Azy5Ic-FcsI/s1600-h/boysGym"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ohc0pJG-Ks0/SbM_dgOYkDI/AAAAAAAAABs/Azy5Ic-FcsI/s320/boysGym" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310658161698967602" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">boys in gymnasium class.<br />old colony chapel on tyler st.<br />1900.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">these kids love exertion.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ohc0pJG-Ks0/SbNBWp7pVvI/AAAAAAAAAB0/PIg_mok4_Uo/s1600-h/childfranceexercise"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 208px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ohc0pJG-Ks0/SbNBWp7pVvI/AAAAAAAAAB0/PIg_mok4_Uo/s320/childfranceexercise" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310660243068901106" border="0" /></a><br /><br />children stretching.<br />buzy, france.<br />1920.<br /></div><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1426537643633803478-9014242059701811291?l=brittanybenjamin.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>brittany benjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545899399979647939noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1426537643633803478.post-35834213152094555642008-05-10T07:00:00.000-07:002008-05-10T07:01:30.510-07:00i recently learned that the internet is a lot of fun.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1426537643633803478-3583421315209455564?l=brittanybenjamin.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>brittany benjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545899399979647939noreply@blogger.com0