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Twitter Links Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?
The pine trees framing the entrance to the forest appear to be normal. Unremarkable. But the crackling dosimeter says otherwise. On this freezing February…

April 20 2012, 7:36am | Comments
Twitter Links Bespoke pets: Just press “print” | The Economist
Thanks to 3D printing, it will soon be possible to design and build household animals to order. GeneDupe’s Universal Pet Printer is loaded with…

April 5 2012, 3:02am | Comments
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November 22 2011, 4:49pm | Comments
Link Is mental time travel what makes us human?
A stonishing animals show up everywhere these days. Cooperative apes, grief-stricken elephants, empathetic cats and dogs crowd our bookshop shelves. It’s all the rage to plumb the cognitive and emotional…

October 28 2011, 10:32am | Comments
Link Being Human (Blame it on Andy)
Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a…

September 29 2011, 3:55am | Comments
Twitter Links Implications of 'uplifting'
Is it Ethical to Make Animals as Smart as People?

August 30 2011, 5:52am | Comments
Link A Home Before the End of the World
Our ignorance is truly staggering. According to some estimates, 95 percent of organisms in the soil alone are unknown to science. Many of them labor unseen, in the dark, serving…

June 29 2011, 4:11pm | Comments
Link Man Is Not Cat Food
In the last decade, human vanity has taken a major hit. Traits once thought to be uniquely, even definingly human have turned up in the repertoire of animal behaviors: tool…

June 12 2011, 8:12am | Comments
Link Where Do Animals Come From?
The origin of animals was one of the most astonishing and important transformations in the history of life. From single-celled ancestors, they evolved into a riot of complexity and diversity.…

March 20 2011, 5:37am | Comments
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March 3 2011, 2:11am | Comments
Link Art for animals
Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Fuller gave a brief but fascinating overview of artworks that make a direct address to the perceptual world of non-human animal species. As you will see quite…

November 27 2010, 7:44am | Comments
Link The beastliness of modern art
Taxidermy (and the chemistry of the morgue) has been something close to a cult obsession with our contemporary gang. We get it, we get it, you often want to howl…

October 17 2010, 2:35pm | Comments
Link The beastliness of modern art
Taxidermy (and the chemistry of the morgue) has been something close to a cult obsession with our contemporary gang. We get it, we get it, you often want to howl…

October 17 2010, 2:35pm | Comments
Link What explains the ascendance of Homo sapiens? Start…
Who among us is invulnerable to the puppy in the pet store window? Not everyone is a dog person, of course; some people are cat people or horse people or…

September 30 2010, 4:22pm | Comments
Link What is Posthumanism?
Perhaps you have had a nightmare in which you fell through the bottom of your known universe into a vortex of mutated children, talking animals, mental illness, freakish art, and…

September 13 2010, 3:19am | Comments
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June 27 2010, 8:03am | Comments
Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational…

June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments
Link Are Animals People?
The recent fatal attack of a SeaWorld trainer by the orca Tilikum has led to renewed questions about how humans should deal with potentially intelligent animals. Was Tilikum’s action premeditated,…

March 27 2010, 5:18pm | Comments
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January 17 2010, 5:00am | Comments
Link Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]
Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an…

October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments
Link The Man Who Eats Badgers
To many, the A30 is just a road, but to retired civil servant Arthur Boyt it's more like a delicatessen. Arthur eats roadkill. He has sampled cat, barn owl, squirrel,…

August 10 2009, 6:27am | Comments
Link Ant mega-colony takes over world
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same…

July 2 2009, 9:10am | Comments

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