Tag: The Conversation
What Do Orcas Want? Rights! When Do They Want Them? Now!
Apparently orcas are threatened in an area of Canadian waters. The government has suggested voluntary sanctuaries.
It’s Unjust Patriarchy to Own a Pet!
Corey Lee Wrenn argues that what is done to an animal should be judged in the same fashion as if the same thing were done to a human.
Early Cambrian Complexity and Other News
Stephen Meyer’s case for intelligent design in Darwin’s Doubt keeps getting vindicated by new fossils.
Gecko, Fairyfly, Manta Ray: Animals Push the Limits of the Possible
What are we to think of humble animals that make the semi-miraculous look routine?
The Chin Enigma
A scientific theory that on principle refuses to see the obvious is an achievement of which only humans are capable.