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Monthly Archive for: ‘July, 2010’

A new publisher for H+ Magazine

The design, launch, and initial management of a new magazine, as with any startup, is the most exciting, but also the most risky period in the life of the project. When H+ Magazine was born, its publisher, Betterhumans,Inc., did a great job creating great design and content — and brought together a community around it. After an initial period, the …

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Interim elections for the Humanity+ Board of Directors

Recently Humanity+ board members Sonia Arrison, and Kristi Scott resigned. We are sorry to see them leave but we are also thankful for the contributions they both made. We wish them well in their endeavors. To bring the board back to full operating capacity, and to fulfill the organization’s constitution, we are now asking for nominations for new board member …

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Presidential Commission on Bioethics

We receive the following guest post by Brian Bishop on the issues of synthetic biology: Last week, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues convened a conference to explore the subject of synthetic biology. President Barack Obama, aware of the news from the lab of Craig Venter, requested that his commission study the technical, legal, social and ethical …

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