Heavy Metal Bioethics

No one disputes that music is powerful and can elicit strong emotions. Can this power be harnessed in research to draw bioethics closer to the human beings who are experiencing the disease states and other life challenges that we seek to understand, and for whom we desire to promote flourishing and beneficence?

Here’s a great piece from David Nantais in the Hastings Center Bioethics Forum. I love how David goes beyond the concert-going experience to explore how music can help bioethicists “promote flourishing and beneficence.”

A handful of hail. #stlwx

Onomatopoeia Odyssey

A fun website from the pudding that answers the question: How do animals sound across languages?

Unfortunately, for Arrested Development fans, chickens are left unaddressed.

Finished reading: The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey 📚

The more you trust, speed increases and expenses are reduced. Right?!?

This would be a fun book to be on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

The Trump Administration Has Fired Pentagon Staff Working To Prevent Civilian Casualties

…employees at the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Reduction office at the Pentagon were informed Monday that their office will be closed, as will the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, and all positions … that offer advice on limiting the risk to civilians during airstrikes.

This administration is villainous.

Trump-Zelensky Meeting Implodes, Threatening Hopes for Peace

POTUS & V-POTUS are bullies. They disrespected President Zelenskyy and embarrassed the United States today.

The damage they are doing (both domestically and internationally) will take generations to repair.

Musk Tells Government Workers to Detail Their Workweek or Face Termination

It is mind-boggling to me that anyone who has paid any attention to Twitter after October 2022 would say: We should do that to the federal government!

Finished reading: Hope by Pope Francis 📚

Had to add a new readwise.io tag.

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