Tag: human
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Babies imitating. Not.
For decades, there have been studies suggesting that human babies are capable of imitating facial gestures, hand gestures, facial expressions, or vocal sounds right from their first weeks of life after birth. But, based on new evidence, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 5, 2016 now say that just isn't…
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Child molestation. Justice. Schiller.
Thirty years ago, Judy Johnson, a mother in Manhattan Beach, Calif., took her 2 1/2-year-old son, Matthew, to the pediatrician, fearing he had been sexually abused by his preschool teacher. By today’s standards, the medical evidence in Matthew’s case was inconclusive: He had a rash on his bottom and rectal bleeding. But at the time,…
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Killing giraffes. Playing human.
A giraffe killed because its DNA was similar to the others! (what?!?) (1, 2, 3, 4) Genetic screening in its most wrong version. Now you can die because something MIGHT happen in the future! (or maybe cut your breasts, thanks to Angelina Jolie) And the possibility that the giraffe did not reproduce or was hosted…
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Be no one.
Be no one if you want to be someone... Letters to a young friend (Nandini Mehta, Bombay) - Letter 11, by Jiddu Krishnamurti (1)
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Voles, humans, ladders...
Isolated water voles in London are being provided with miniature ladders to encourage them to venture further afield. [1] I wander what voles think of those miracle ladders... I can imagine of the genuine joy and gratefulness a vole must feel when he discovers that gift... I wander what kind of ladders have been placed…
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