The Ethics of Brain Organoids

Today you’ll learn about whether or not birth order affects how rebellious you are, how researchers are working to turn a human brain into a machine, and what Zimbabwe is doing to try and solve their energy crisis. 

Birth Order   

• “New study disputes the birth order theory that later-born are “born to rebel”” by Laura Staloch
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/02/new-study-disputes-the-birth-order-theory-that-later-born-are-born-to-rebel-68636
• “Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the ‘born to rebel’ hypothesis” by Gareth Richards et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886922005487
• “Rebelling Against Born to Rebel” by Frederic Townsend (PAYWALL, first page free)
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1061736197900096
• “Steppenwolf’s Jerry Edmonton: The Man With The ‘Born To Be Wild’ Beat” by Paul Sexton
  • https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/jerry-edmonton-steppenwolf-drummer/
• “Mars Bonfire” by AllMusic
  • https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mars-bonfire-mn0000793570

Braincell Computers 

• “Scientists unveil plan to create biocomputers powered by human brain cells” by FRONTIERS
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980084
• “Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish” by Lena Smirnova et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2023.1017235
• “What lab-grown 'mini-brains' are revealing about this mysterious organ” by Clare Wilson
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533962-300-what-lab-grown-mini-brains-are-revealing-about-this-mysterious-organ/

Zimbabwe Hydro

• “In Zimbabwe, drought is driving a hydropower crisis—and a search for alternatives” BY ANDREW MAMBONDIYANI
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/zimbabwe-drought-driving-hydropower-crisis-and-search-alternatives
• “A Grid for all Seasons: Enhancing the Integration of Variable Solar and Wind Power in Electricity Systems Across Africa” by Sebastian Sterl
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40518-021-00192-6
• “Hydropower plans in eastern and southern Africa increase risk of concurrent climate-related electricity supply disruption” by Declan Conway, Carole Dalin, Willem A. Landman & Timothy J. Osborn
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0037-4
• “Potential for Battery Energy Storage System in Zimbabwe” by Njovana G. Allen et al.
  • https://www.jree.ir/article_155040.html
• “Biomass explained” by EIA
  • https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/biomass/landfill-gas-and-biogas.ph

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