Category: Biology Philosophy
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Immortality: Possible.
Many living beings are literally immortal. [1] From trees [2] to lobsters [3] to Hydra [4], immortality is more common than we may think. Our lost contact with Nature is probably the reason we have denied ourselves this possibility. We consider us as one of the most evolved species and yet we die younger than almost any…
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Bark! Bark! (Admitting your limits)
A dog thought-to-speech device! The future! Technology! Hip Scandinavians! A thing that translates your dog’s thoughts into people-speak! Open up your check-book and post-date one for The Future! But wait. Isn’t there something missing in the promotional video? Something important? Right. It doesn’t show a real demonstration. (1) “What I saw in their video can’t…
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Sexism. Politically correctness. Obstacles to science.
The latest neuroscience study of sex differences to hit the popular press has inspired some familiar headlines. The Independent, for example, proclaims that: The hardwired difference between male and female brains could explain why men are “better at map reading” (And why women are “better at remembering a conversation”). The study in question, published in…
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Feeling different! Feeling human!
Two interesting news… First: Where do humans fall in the food chain? You can probably already guess it’s somewhere between cows and polar bears, but a new study now puts a number to it: Somewhere between 2.0 and 2.6, depending on where you live. That’s on a scale of 1 to about 5, in which…
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Grant legal rights you… god!
Αn animal rights group known as the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a lawsuit in a New York Supreme Court in an attempt to get a judge to declare that chimpanzees are legal persons and should be freed from captivity. (1) We give legal rights to animals. But… who gave us the right to give…
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