Furby comes to life~!

Recently, scientists have rediscovered the existence of the pygmy tarsiers. For 8 decades, these creatures have long been considered extinct but scientists working in Lore Lindu National Park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi accidently trapped one while trapping rats.

Many people have said that these species look similar to the Furby. The first time I saw this article, I was amazed and a little creeped out when I saw how similiar the pygmy tarsiers and the Furby looked. Even though I'm not a big fan of the Furby, I think it's really amazing that scientists were able to rediscover these creatures becuase now scientists can track where these creatures live and possibly help them to repopulate.

"designer babies"?

The idea of the "designer babies" have been lurking around the news for the past few weeks. The word "designer baby" is a term used by the media describing the new idea of human genetic alteration to create "select" babies. Meaning, parents can decide what they want their child to look like and what they want their child's personalities to be. Scientists are looking more into this new discovery.

Overall, I think this idea is morally wrong because I believe that humans shouldn't have the power to change what people look like or should look like. However, I think that this method could be beneficial in a sense that it could help parents to detect genes that could put the baby more at risk of a family disease and prevent that gene from being passed on to the baby. I know that in the future, more people are going to start to accept this idea and "designer babies" will become more common, but at this moment, I feel that, unless parents are willing to use this method solely to help prevent passing on disease genes, it should not be considered. But I know that that's not going to happen...