Michael Cook

1 month ago | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

After 23 years, BioEdge ceased published in May 2024. Not that there isn’t lots to report on and talk about, but our resources proved insufficient to move forward in an increasingly competitive environment. We began publication in 2001, smack in the middle of the controversy over embryonic stem cells. The mainstream media was full of news about promising new developments — based mostly on press releases from scientists working with human embryos.

Oct 26, 2024 | northplattebulletin.com | Michael Cook

I recently started reading the Project 2025 Plan in an effort to understand what was proposed as the ultimate solution to all the conservative concerns that they have against the liberal Democrats. I looked at what I thought were the most significant parts of this 900-plus page saga of what the authors want this country to look like in the future. What concerns me the most are the effects on our Education System, our Health System, and the appointment of government officials?

Jun 28, 2024 | jscholarship.library.jhu.edu | Michael Cook |Steven Ross |Steven Lindsay Ross

This study was a quasi-experimental design (QED) that examined the impact of Intervene K-12 tutoring on mathematics achievement for Grade 9 ELL students identified by HPS as having experienced considerable learning disruptions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and having recently arrived in the United States. Achievement gains for treatment students, who received tutoring services, were compared to those of comparison students, who did not receive tutoring.

May 8, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

“Enhancement” normally connotes adding powers beyond normal human functioning. However, there are dark kinds of enhancement which remove them. A Norwegian national living in England has just been found guilty of several counts of grievous bodily harm for running a castration website catering for men who want to be “nullos” – males without genitals. Marius Gustavson, 46, and others carried out many mutilations through his “eunuch-maker” site, which had about 23,000 subscribers around the world.

May 8, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

There is growing acknowledgement of the fact that the backgrounds, ideas, and politics of American academics are out of step with the backgrounds, ideas and politics of the American public. “Tenured and tenure-track college professors are drawn from a narrow and idiosyncratic slice of society,” writes Musa al-Gharbi, a journalism professor at Stony Brook University.