Thursday, February 8, 2024

Lesson 6

 Students who had to re-submit their homework from yesterday (or submit it for the first time) did so at the beginning of the class.

We reviewed the 3 kinds of irony, and discussed examples from previous classes.

In small groups, students discussed the nature of scientific experimentation and the ethical lines they believe should/should not be crossed.

We watched the following video on GENETIC ENGINEERING and talked about all of the ways in which it is already outdated.

We also discussed:

Scientists who have done what was once thought impossible - Dolly the Sheep

Scientists who started with CRSPR and continued with MRNA vaccines

A scientist who thought he was cutting edge, but it seems was not meant to tell anyone about his human experiments

and good old hubris in this excellent scene from one of the Jurassic Park films

 


 

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