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Future Residential Design

Truthfully, the finishes represented are just a matter on interest in moving away from the "picket fence" mentality and the nostalgia that has long held o to architects.

 

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A New Crop of Scientists Are Using Their Children as Research Subjects - NYTimes.com

A New Crop of Scientists Are Using Their Children as Research Subjects - NYTimes.com

Test Subjects Who Call the Scientist Mom or Dad

Even before his son was born, Pawan Sinha saw unique potential.

At a birthing class, Dr. Sinha, a neuroscience professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stunned everyone, including his wife, by saying he was excited about the baby’s birth “because I really want to study him and do experiments with him.” He did, too, strapping a camera on baby Darius’s head, recording what he looked at.

Dr. Sinha is among a new crop of scientists using their children as research subjects.

Other researchers have studied their own children in the past, but sophisticated technology allows modern-day scientists to collect new and more detailed data. The scientists also say that studying their children allows for more in-depth research and that the children make reliable participants in an era of scarce research financing.

“You need subjects, and they’re hard to get,” said Deborah Linebarger, a developmental psychologist who directs the Children’s Media Lab at the University of Pennsylvania

This is quoted from New York Times

The question: Is this trend -- using offspring as test subjects -- dangerous, unsavoury, ot in any way unethical?

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In Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalists Turn Cautious - NYTimes.com

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Quoted from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/technology/start-ups/05venture.html?_r=2&ref=technology:

In Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalists Turn Cautious - NYTimes.com

CLEAN TECH GETS REALISTIC Venture capitalists are still chasing clean technology. Through September, $3 billion was invested in technologies that create alternative energy and conserve power, up from $1.9 billion the year before, according to the National Venture Capital Association. But big, expensive projects like building factories to manufacture solar panels or biofuels are falling out of favor.

“The economic arguments for those businesses literally went upside down in a year,” said Paul Holland, the general partner in charge of the clean tech practice at Foundation Capital.

Instead, some venture capitalists are looking at technologies that monitor energy demand, like software that tracks and regulates a building’s energy use.

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