Topics

• Video -- A Vision of Students Today, Kansas State University

• Emerging technologies
  • Diagnostic testing
  • Genomics: personal genome, risk assessment
  • Internet: reporting, diagnosis, teaching, mapping, ...
  • Database integration and mining
    Caveat: Ethics of big sister versus big brother; health insurance, employment, ...
  • Medical automation
  • Communication; team work; rapid detection -> rapid response
  • Information: vast quantities; up-to-date; rapid access; free to world; questionable quality;
    FILTER DATA AND IDEAS -- THINK BEFORE USING!!!

• Test 6

• 5 Minutes University

• So what will you remember?
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  • Rate versus standing crop
  • Cause versus effect -- Is it a scientific experiment or a correlation?
  • How to design an experiment to test a hypothesis?
    • Control + experimental treatment(s)
    • Randomize
    • Replicate
    • Test results statistically
  • Question assumptions -- What are the hidden ones?
  • Reproductive success -- measured in the number of surviving offspring in future generationS
  • Units of selection
    • The Selfish Gene
    • Group selection fallacy
    • Kin selection
  • Evolution -- changes in gene frequencies (Hardy-Weinberg Principle)
  • Limits to growth -- exponential versus logistic growth -- birth versus death rates
  • Reality is more complex than models -- add complexity -- age structure, ... -- still very, very difficult to predict the future
  • Climate change -- or not? Science versus politics, economics, ...

• Overcoming the Tragedy of the Commons -- the challenge to your and future generations

• Instructor evaluations