2 from the nytimes

The first one
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/science/telling-the-story-of-the-brains-cacophony-of-competing-voices.html?sq=neuroscience&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print

discusses some of the findings of research into how the brain works.  It is interesting, but challenges popular ideas about free will and agency.  From the course perspective, how does this affect morality?  Can you have morality without freewill?  Does this affect which frameworks we should choose to use?

The second one is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/business/at-the-sec-questions-about-its-own-privacy-controls.html?tntemail1=y&emc=tnt&pagewanted=print

This is an example of the danger of data collection, even for valid/legitimate/noble purposes.