11/27/18

BIOL*1500
L20 - Brave New World

In the news ...

According to the research described in

this news article, which of the three
species is predicted to benefit the most –
and for what reason?

(Global News 2018.11.21)

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In the news ...

(CBC 2018.11.22)

In the news ...

u But even officials don't travel to North

Sentinel, where people live as their
ancestors did thousands of years ago
and where outsiders are seen with
suspicion and attacked
u P.C. Joshi (anthropology professor at
Delhi University who has studied the
islands) said t was "a foolish adventure.
He invited that aggression"
What was the cause-effect mechanism
u Joshi noted that Chau not only risked hypothesized to be the mortality risk
his own life, but also the lives of posed by Chau’s travel to the North
islanders Sentinalese?

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In the news ...

u A new US government report delivers a

dire warning about climate change and
its devastating impacts, saying the
economy could lose hundreds of billions
of dollars -- or, in the worst-case
scenario, more than 10% of its GDP -- by
the end of the century
u The federally mandated study was
supposed to come out in December but
was released by the Trump
administration on Friday, at a time when
many Americans are on a long holiday
weekend, distracted by family and
(CNN 2018.11.26) shopping

In the news ...

What simple, basic fact about global

climate change (discussed earlier in this
course) has the USA Idiot-in-Chief once
again demonstrated his complete
ignorance about?

(CNN 2018.11.26)

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Brave New World

u Brave New World (1932): a dystopian

novel by Aldous Huxley
u set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F.
in the book), the novel anticipates
developments in:
u reproductive technology
u genetic engineering
u recreational narcotics
u sleep-learning
u psychological manipulation

Brave New World

u Bernard takes a holiday with Lenina outside

the World State to a Savage Reservation in
New Mexico, in which the two observe
natural-born people, disease, the aging
process, other languages, and religious
lifestyles for the first time
u they meet John (The Savage), ostracized
natural son of a woman from the World
State who has only two sources of outside
knowledge
u a scientific manual
u complete works of Shakespeare

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Brave New World

when hearing of the technologies and

customs of civilization:

John:
“O brave new world," he repeated. "O
brave new world that has such people in
it. Let's start at once."

Ecosystem Cleanup

What was the reaction of the new Québec

Provincial government to the march?

(CBC 2011.11.10)

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Ecosystem Cleanup

Based on recent research cited in the

article, a significant reduction of
Indonesia's plastic waste would directly
benefit what global ecosystem?

(CBC 2011.10.23)

Ecosystem Cleanup

u He's become so disgusted with the

illegal dumping into the ocean that
he's has started a non-profit group
called Clean Harbours Initiative

What two specific kinds of dumped waste

did Bath identify as being particularly
harmful and requiring immediate
removal?

(CBC 2011.10.10)

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Ecosystem Cleanup

What are the five general categories of

negative CO2 emission management that
are currently available for use on a large
scale, if/when Humans decide to use
them?

(BBC 2011.10.25)

Ecosystem Cleanup

u What are the six innovative waste

reduction/elimination strategies
identified in this article for the
restaurant industry?

(CBC 2011.10.18)

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Ecosystem Cleanup

u According to the World Health

Organisation (WHO), what percentage
of the current global Human
population still don't have access to
basic sanitation facilities?

u Exactly how are these new sanitation

technologies revolutionary?

(CBC 2011.11.06)

Energy

u What was identified in the article as

the biggest 'problem technology'?

u What was identified in the article as

the single biggest mechanism
required for achieving the necessary
changes?

(CBC 2011.10.24)

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Energy

u "We think this is a very important waste

stream, but it's under-evaluated and
it's underutilized," He said

What are three desirable characteristics

of coffee grounds that give it a strong
advantage as a prospect for converting
biomass waste to fuel in Canada?

(CBC 2011.11.03)

Energy

What combination of technologies has

been identified by Hurtigruten to try and
reach zero emissions on at least 6 of its 17
ships by 2021?

(CNN 2011.11.20)

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Technology

What are three potential advantages to

LED-raised food plants, over conventional
open field-based grow operations?

(WPost 2011.11.06)

Technology

What two Human disease eradication programs

cited specifically in the article are currently
being attempted with CRISPR - and what role do
non-Human animals play in each?

(CBC 2011.11.11)

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Technology

What revolutionary technology was used

to achieve these stunning advances in
reproductive medical research?

(CBC 2011.10.12)

Technology

If these space elevators advance from

materials research to construction, how
might this technology have significant
effects for global Human waste
management?

(NZ Herald 2011.10.26)

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Food

How much did the 2013 first ever lab-

grown burger cost?

(CBC 2018.10.24)

Food

In the case of the chicken nuggets

sampled in this article:
u what cells were used for the bioreactor
production?
u how long did it take to produce a
nugget?

According to this article, how many non-

Human animals per Human are
slaughtered on an annual basis?

(CBC 2018.10.15)

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Food

What agricultural argument was raised in the

article against large-scale production of
leafy vegetables like lettuce?

(CBC 2018.11.22)

Empathy

What kind of evidence was used by the

researchers to come to the conclusion that
early Humans did not in fact cause the
African mammalian extinctions over the last 7
million years?

(BBC 2018.11.22)

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Empathy

How did the kangaroo get in trouble while

swimming?

Exactly what did the Humans do to save

the kangaroo?

(CBC 2018.10.28)

Empathy

Although not explicitly mentioned in the

article, what is a highly likely cause for
the box turtle’s injury?

(CBC 2018.10.03)

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Artificial Intelligence

What are the two different parts of the AI

algorithm that created Portrait of Edmond
Belamy?

(CBC 2018.10.25)

Artificial Intelligence

In the article’s 2017 example in which two

chatbots were tasked with inter-chatbot
negotiations, what revolutionary kind
behaviour did the computer programs
exhibit?

(CBC 2018.11.02)

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Artificial Intelligence

How wide was the meteor that caused the 2013

explosive air burst in Chelyabinsk?

What is NASA’s percent estimate of identification

for asteroids ≧ 1km width in Earth’s field?

(CBC 2018.11.09)

Yonder

If this entity is indeed a probe from another

extra-terrestrial civilization, what form of
propulsion was hypothesized by the authors?

Why is this research not yet considered

primary scientific literature?

(CBC 2018.11.14)

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Yonder

What arguments are raised in the article to

continue investing in the search for extra-
terrestrial intelligence?

(NBC 2018.04.11)

Yonder

What is the InSight lander’s mission on Mars?

(What major question is NASA trying to answer?)

(CBC 2018.11.27)

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