Counter-Productivity in Technological Advancement
By Richard Revia

College was once reserved for a small minority of people seeking highly advanced education, but now a four-year degree is essential if a person wants to succeed in a career in which they hold some degree of authority or expertise. However, this trend continues to expand, and soon eight or more years of higher education will become the standard. As the amount of knowledge needed in order to contribute to society grows, so does the amount of time spent in school. But will the amount of time spent in school reach an impractical limit, and if so, how will we deal with it?
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Making Mice Human: An Ethical Frontier
By Nicholas A. Jew

Whirling into view, the complex chemical helix that spirals past is the molecular basis, the foundation, upon which all life takes shape. The intricately woven structure of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and hydrogen defines, at the most basal level, our identity. As the double helix of deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA) whizzes by, the sequence of nitrogenous bases begins to form into coiled chromosomes of an animal, and the farther the progression, the more clearly it is determined that the genome before you is that of a mouse—but not just any mouse. Suddenly out of the code leaps a foreign element, a segment of human DNA. This creature, not merely a mouse, represents the future of biotechnology and biomedical research—it is a transgenic mouse.
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The Nazi Experiments: The Ethics of Using Past Data
By Rachel Jerome

Should the scientific community use the information collected from the Holocaust death-camps?
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Enchantment Lost
By Susannah Payne

Death lingers at a bedside table, perusing the demons escaping the hand of a shriveled up old man. His Paradise Lost is no longer a concern; John Milton had long ago sifted through the ideas of spirituality and the unknown afterlife to come out with a soul practically gleaming, these demons were not his own. A Bible lay open to Psalms 104, eyes continuously seeking a place of rest between the passage and an ink smudged atonement, a final promise to a friend thirty years dead. Softly he spoke to the air, “”You fixed the earth on its foundation, never to be moved. The ocean covered it like a garment; above the mountains stood the waters. At your roar they took flight; at the sound of your thunder they fled.”, finally I see where your struggles commenced Galileo, to the allurement of a poem no less.”
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Life on the Streets
By Jared Chen, Zach White, and Iris Bautista

In this documentary, Pete Murray, Max, and Mark Starwatcher are interviewed to get their perspective on what life is like for someone who is homeless.
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