What I've been reading

• Undead Babies (William Saletan - Slate Magazine)
  The retreating boundaries of organ harvesting.
• MIT-led Team Asks: How Would Extraterrestrial Astronomers View Earth? (The Daily Galaxy)
  As astronomers become more adept at hunting for, and finding, exoplanets orbiting stars beyond the Solar System, an international team of astronomers has figured out just what alien eyes might see using the increasingly sophisticated technologies being developed on Earth.