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Photo: Great Salt Lake, by Brigitte Werner (werner22brigitte), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Utah Versus Nature Rights

Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong. Read More ›
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Photo: Great Salt Lake, by Brigitte Werner (werner22brigitte), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Kannan Arunasalam, IWMI, via Flickr (cropped).

Stifling Food Production to “Save the Planet”

After Sri Lanka’s government restricted non-organic fertilizer use, the economy and government collapsed. Read More ›
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An Astronomer Considers the Origin of Life, with Sobering Results

In my opinion, only one tooth fairy is allowed per theory, and this one has at least four, making its irrelevance nearly guaranteed. Read More ›
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Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist

A “manifesto” in the science journal Human Evolution declares that chimpanzees and bonobos should be considered legal “persons” with legally enforceable “rights.” Read More ›
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Confirming the Big Bang: The Recent Decades

The Big Bang theory also gives us an age for the universe. The latest estimate, based on several cosmological observations, is 13.80 +/- 0.02 billion years. Read More ›
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Elephants Sue for Habeas Corpus

The point here isn’t to prevent abuse, if it exists. We have animal-welfare laws for that. Read More ›

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