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GUIDO NÚÑEZ-MUJICA
Guido Núñez-Mujica
is an undergraduate Student of Biology and
Computational Physics at the Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida,
Venezuela. In 2001, he became the founder of
AREV,
the
first and only skeptical association of Venezuela, devoted to
spreading critical thinking and rationalistic views. He
is
an active transhumanist and has become a speaker about Transhumanism
in a course on Bioethics in the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad
de Los Andes.
Guido is also a writer on science popularization and futurism
and
was winner of the 2006 World Transhumanist Association's J.B.S.
Haldane Award for Best Undergraduate Transhumanist Paper advancing
transhumanist thought, analysis, or applications. He was also the
winner of
the 2006 Sowing the Future Award of the World Future Society
Venezuela and has contributed to the development of the 2007
"State of the Future" of the Millennium Project. He is an
independent consultant in Biotech for emerging markets and an activist
for an open society.
Currently he is doing his thesis on mathematical modelling of
biological systems, specifically the metabolism of the parasite that
causes Chagas' Disease and is also developing research in analyzing
genomes using bioinformatic tools.
Guido authored
Employing Geoethics to Avoid Negative Nanotechnology Scenarios in
Developing Countries,
The Ethics of Enhancing Animals, Specifically the Great
Apes,
XO Laptops for Uruguay: The wheels are spinning!,
Grow muscles as a Marvel character or The Real Mighty Mouse,
Lava lamps and DNA or Thermal Cyclers for everybody,
Ten Commandments of Systems Biology,
Why Chagas' Disease matters,
Top Ten most interesting extra solar planets,
It's Official: India needs Biotech,
Child Mortality at historical low!,
World of Warcraft as model for epidemiology,
Medieval Times,
New Utopias, and
Sumisión: Ayaan Ali Hirsi y Theo Van Gogh.
Read his blogs
Globally Connected and
La Ira desde el Tercer Mundo.
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