Last week's piece drew responses that throw into relief how much the language we use depends on our most basic assumptions about how the world works. If left…
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A proper community is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its…
A proper community is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its…
Has anyone else noticed that most professors of ethics aren’t exactly…ummm…ethical? At least the ones who get quoted, anyway. A professor at the highly esteemed…
Humans are evolving more rapidly than previously thought, according to the largest ever genetics study of a single population. Scientists reached the conclusion after showing…
Every modern generation has had its own idiosyncratic obsession with telepathy, the hope that one human being might be able to read another person’s thoughts.…
Human activity dangerously compromises four of the nine systems that are key to maintaining the stability of Earth, report researchers. The study establishes planetary boundaries—thresholds beyond…
Scientists warn that our fate is in our own hands as humans now control almost every aspect of the planet, on a scale akin to…
We humans are an epic fail. In internet-speak, that term can be used derisively or sympathetically. A failure of grand proportions can be labeled “epic”…