Derek Sorensen

December 6, 2007

Blogging tip: How to plagiarise without getting caught

Filed under: humour, musings, blogging, ecademy — Derek Sorensen @ 12:53 am

Isn’t it frustrating when you copy and paste someone else’s writing into your blog, only to have some interfering busybody point out that you aren’t the original author. They might even go so far as to email the *real* author to tell them you have copied their work. And all you were doing was quite innocently trying to pretend you had some knowledge you didn’t have. How unsporting of them. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
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December 4, 2007

Confused about Genetic Engineering

Filed under: science, technology, environment, musings — Derek Sorensen @ 10:21 pm

I hold some conflicting opinions about GM. On the one hand, I can see that GM has the potential to offer much that is good to humanity. On the other, I think it’s a dangerous technology which needs extreme care, and I’m not convinced that enough care is being taken now that it’s become such big business.
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