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honey bee
Photo credit: Tanner Smida, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Bees Feel Pain. Therefore…Insect Rights?

As we learn more from research about how various life forms respond to experiences, a more complex picture may raise political issues. Read More ›
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Photo: C. S. Lewis, via Asar Studios/Alamy (Celestial Images).

2022 YouTube Film Festival: The Magician’s Twin

Today we highlight a short documentary exploring C. S. Lewis’s life-long struggle to find intelligent design in a world filled with pain. Read More ›
dolphins
Photo: Dolphins, by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

These Animals Know How to Self-Medicate

The “animals’ pharmacy” mainly aims at treating parasites and wounds using plants and insects. Read More ›
octopus
Photo credit: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.

Can Largely Rearranged Genomes Explain Why Octopuses Are So Smart?

Even compared to each other, the genomes of three cephalopods studied had been broken up and extensively reorganized. Read More ›
pregnant
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If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

How is it that a leading professor of biology could fundamentally misunderstand the biology of human development?  Read More ›
earthworm
Photo: An earthworm, Swifts Creek, Victoria, by Fir0002/Flagstaffotos.

Evolutionary Psychologist Argues that Worms Feel Pain. But How?

Wait. Barash’s hypothesis overlooks the fact that suffering is more than an alarm system. An alarm could be going off in an empty building. Read More ›
crab
Photo credit: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Researchers Ask — Serious Question — Do Crabs Have Emotions?

Recent research has created some unexpected ethical problems for the seafood industry. Read More ›
octopus
Photo credit: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.

Octopuses Get Emotional About Pain, Research Shows

The smartest of invertebrates, the octopus, once again prompts us to rethink what we believe to be the origin of intelligence. Read More ›
honey bee
Photo credit: Tanner Smida, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Put Some of This on That Wound, Honey

The antiseptic properties of natural honey are getting more attention as antibiotic-resistant bacteria proliferate. Read More ›
surgery
Photo credit: Piron Guillaume, via Unsplash.

Egnor: Disturbing Questions About Consciousness

Think about this next time you are put under general anesthesia, which I hope neither you nor I will be anytime soon. Read More ›

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