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The mental territory we can claim to be uniquely human’ is shrinking at an alarming rate.
Wasps can distinguish faces, dolphins call one another by name, pigs use tools and pigs.
Chimps, meanwhile, exist in complex cultures, rather like ours, with fashion trends.
We end up empathising only with the animals we know well, such as our pets.
At the height on anthropodenialism, in the 19th century , experiments on dogs triggered huge protests by anti-cruelty leagues, but the fate of other animals attracted little interest.
We have a surfeit of laws against pet cruelty, but continue to treat farm animals badly.
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The placenta is the human body's only dispensable organ, which you once grew of your own flesh, then, upon entering the world, no longer needed.
For many months , this was the organ that, using resources from your mother, fed you.
It was a steely, dogged organ. It lived only to serve. It gave up its life within minutes of your birth.
Every species of mammal currently alive has its own kind of placenta that has been crafted and tinkered with by natural selection for more than 100 million years to find the right balance between the survival needs of mother and the thirst for blood of embryos.
The human placentas appear to be among those with the fiercest appetite for maternal nutrients.
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President Joe Biden bragged about his spending for his climate change agenda while inadvertently admitting that his gigantically-priced “Inflation Reduction Act” was not really about reducing inflation.
The bill was passed by Congress and signed into law by Biden in August 2022 .
According to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania , the IRA had a statistically insignificant impact on inflation and may have even exacerbated it.
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When Kamala Harris ran for president in 2020 , she expressed support for banning plastic straws.
On Thursday , a Harris campaign official said she no longer supports such a ban.
She has also reversed her stance on Medicare for All and mandatory gun buyback programs.
Critics say she has been light on details about her policy agenda this election cycle.
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Richard Dawkins explains the binary nature of sex and describes the significance of this to the understanding of inheritance in general, both for Charles Darwin and for us today .
Author Iona Italia was publicly disowned by the American Humanist Association after a tweet inviting discussion about the habit of “identifying as’s”.
The one -drop rule’ asserted that one drop of African “blood” was enough to make a person count as black.
James Morris’s choice to identify as a woman and his gruelling and costly transition to Jan Morris earned our deep respect for that very reason.
The binary nature of sex nearly handed Charles Darwin the key to discovering the genetic laws now correctly attributed to Gregor Mendel .
Jenkin and Darwin wrongly assumed that heredity was “blending’ and that children were a kind of fluid mixture of mother and father: intermediate, like mixing paint.
Genes (as they are now called) are particulate. Heredity is digital, not analogue, and inheritance is Mendelian .
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There is a refusal to acknowledge the role green policy played in this tragedy.
The original facade of Grenfell Tower , comprising exposed concrete and, given its age, likely timber or metal frame windows, would not have provided a medium for fire spread up the external surface’.
Since the Grenfell Tower fire, no new cladding has been put on to tower blocks to reduce climate change.
Millions of pounds have since been spent removing dangerous cladding from these blocks.
Billions more has been earmarked to complete the de-cladding of more than 500 buildings that are still considered dangerous.
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Recent findings suggest that the Shroud of Turin dates back 2,000 years , reopening the profound mystery at the heart of Christianity .
The ancient cloth bears the faint image of a man who appears to have suffered crucifixion, a detail that has both inspired reverence and skepticism.
Despite being one of the most studied relics, the Shroud continues to defy definitive scientific explanation.
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Environmental groups want to destroy four dams on the Snake River in Washington state.
They claim the dams are driving salmon to extinction.
John Sutter says salmon populations are higher than they were in the 1980s and ’90s .
Sutter: Environmental groups don’t raise money by acknowledging good news.
“It’s more about feeling good than environmental results.” John Stossel is the author of “ Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters , Cheats , and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media .”.
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California lawmakers passed a law requiring all science classes to include an emphasis on climate change.
The law will be implemented in full this school year .
At least five other states, including Connecticut , New Jersey , Maine , Illinois , and Washington State , have also added climate requirements to school curriculums.
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The Biden administration is giving local governments in dozens of states $521 million to build EV charging ports in mostly underserved areas.
The money flows through the Department of Transportation ( DOT ), which proudly claims that the “number of publicly available Electric Vehicle chargers has doubled since the start of the Biden-Harris Administration ” The administration is subsidizing the EV industry with a staggering $15.54 billion .