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In Prestigious Journal, Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction

The human-extinction movement used to be pretty fringy but it may be gaining traction within bioethics and philosophy. Read More ›
Panama_Jungle_from_Panama_Canal
Photo: A jungle in Panama, by Paul Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Mainstream Media Discover “Nature Rights”

Concomitantly, China would never be so stupid as to grant rights to nature. They don’t even grant them to humans. Read More ›
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The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart

Two signaling molecules — strigolactone and ethylene — can work independently to begin the process of leaf senescence. Read More ›
Qafzeh
Photo: A skull from the Qafzeh Cave, by Wapondaponda, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?

Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do. Read More ›
cow
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Animal-Rights Philosopher, Published by Oxford University Press: “Let Animals Vote!”

If you want to see what is going so badly wrong in society, read the professional and intellectual journals. Read More ›
Tongan island
Photo credit: Miyasige Tosikazu, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Thoughts of Goodness in an Evolutionary World

What you’d expect is humans more or less on the level of animals — not greatly exceeding them in evil, or greatly transcending them in good.  Read More ›
Middle East from space
Photo credit: Stuart Rankin, via Flickr (cropped).

Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World

Nowhere in the animal world do we see evil that comes anywhere close to comparing with the unfortunate depths of evil displayed by humanity. Read More ›
Jumping Spider
Photo: Phidippus audax, a North American jumping spider, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism

Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Read More ›
Charnia-masoni
Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

"It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant." Read More ›
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Asking Questions Demonstrates Human Exceptionalism

This human trait of question-asking begins almost as soon as we learn to talk. Young children can confound their parents with their rapid-fire questions. Read More ›

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