by Ethos Institute | Sep 21, 2015 | Pulse
September 2015 Pulse On 3 Feb 2015, the British Parliament voted 382 to 128 in favour of legalising a technique in assisted reproductive technology known as mitochondrial replacement, after much heated debate. The UK is the first country in the world to legalise this...
by Ethos Institute | Sep 6, 2015 | Pulse
September 2015 Pulse On 24 May 2015, the citizens of Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage, making the predominantly Roman Catholic country the first in the world to do so by popular vote. 1,201,607 or 61% of the voters said ‘Yes’ to same-sex marriage in a...
by Ethos Institute | Aug 16, 2015 | Pulse
August 2015 Pulse The American sociologist Peter Berger is perhaps one of the most interesting scholars of secularism and religion. In his book The Sacred Canopy published in 1967, Berger presented the famous secularisation thesis which postulates that as modernity...
by Ethos Institute | Aug 3, 2015 | Pulse
August 2015 Pulse In the summer of 1956, a group of scientists gathered at the campus of Dartmouth University for a two-month workshop that would launch the modern artificial intelligence (AI) programme. At the end of the workshop, MIT scientists Marvin Minsky, Claude...
by Ethos Institute | Jul 19, 2015 | Pulse
July 2015 Pulse In October 2014, Apple and Facebook made the headlines by announcing that they would pay the expenses of women employees who wished to freeze their eggs. This unprecedented move has revived debate on the ethical issues surrounding this particular use...
by Ethos Institute | Jul 5, 2015 | Pulse
July 2015 Pulse Without a doubt, the advances of modern Western medicine have benefited society in many ways. From vaccinations against debilitating but preventable diseases to targeted cancer therapies, modern medicine has contributed to the unprecedented decline in...
