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This project is in connection with MIT's OpenCourseWare STS.069/STS.092 website.  Here, approximately 80 essays -- all in their original form, all written for the MIT undergraduate 2003 spring semester STS.092 course -- are listed, analyzed, and cross-referenced under multiple different categories.  As all of news and life is interconnected and each element influences the next, each essay here cannot fit under a single restrictive category.  For instance, can a news report on the recent health epidemic SARS really belong to just "health"?  It pertains to "science," "politics," "world," "travel," "economics/business," and "national" too.  Many of the thoughts and perspectives in these essays still linger today.  We have actually experienced what has occurred in the months since the initial ponderings and predictions, and it is amazingly interesting to see what is now true and false.

For more clarification, a more thorough background and introduction is presented here.  Additionally, MIT STS Director and Professor Rosalind Williams' wonderful and deeply insightful essay, concerning STS, the OCW site, and the respective courses, is also posted.   

The students essays are arranged, as shown by the links below, by date written, by author, by general subject, by specific topic (or keyword), and lastly, by concept or STS idea.  Click on a link, and you will be brought to a listing of dates, authors, subjects, keywords, and ideas respectively.  Each sub-category contains any and all relevant essays.  Additionally, a separate essay page, containing an excerpt and PDF file, will show all other categories to which the essay also belongs.