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Superhumans?

Subject(s): Science | Biology | How science works | Age: 11-14 | 14-16 | Type: Activity sheet | Publication Year: 2000 - 2009
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This main unit in the Ideas and Evidence pack from the Pupil Researcher Initiative explores the possible benefits and risks of a new technology. The unit uses the example of whether in the future it should be permitted to allow people to have ‘superbrains’ with computer chips implanted in them.

Contents
• Questions
• Repairing bodies
• The Brainlink chip
• Thinking ethically
• Teachers’ notes

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