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Friday Link Roundup: Corruption and Unethical Business

Corruption can be found in every area of society; from government, to corporations, to individuals. The core similarity that they all have is the willingness of those who participate to act unethically in order to profit unfairly at others’ expense.

Friday Link Roundup: War and Peace

Yesterday, I highlighted Antiwar.com as our Site of the Week. Today’s link roundup then will focus on some recent news and commentary that relate to the themes highlghted by the Antiwar.com site. I’ve collected up some links about the Iraq inquiry, China’s detention facilities, CIA secret prisons and some other pieces of interest.

Friday Link Roundup: New Religious Movements

Given yesterday’s Site of the Week, I figured that it would be appropriate to use this week’s Link Roundup to focus on cults and new religious movements.

Friday Link Roundup: Longevity and the Methuselarity

It is often thought that by the end of this century, medical advancements will have progressed to such a degree that we are literally gaining more than a year of life for every year that passes. Which means that we will, when speaking about natural lifespans, be technically immortal.

Friday Link Roundup: Stem Cell Research

This week’s selection of links touch on several aspects of stem cell research. These topics range from the controversy and ethics of stem cell treatment, to new advances in genetic research as well as current uses in society today.

Friday Link Roundup: The moral economy

Many people don’t quite realise just how close the global financial sector came to complete and total collapse. Now that we have seemingly emerged from the worst of it, there is a lot of discussion occurring around the world about what went wrong and, more importantly, how to stop it ever happening again.