Word: humanism
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...After downloading the software to your PlayStation, you log into Home and create your virtual character, whom you'll pilot around. Using your PlayStation controller, you've got a seemingly infinite array of choices to customize your human. Everything from the height of the cheekbones to skin color and hair (color, texture, length) is customizable - within limits. Want your character to be 8 ft. tall? Forget it. Humans are sized like the real deal. No really enormous noses, either. You want your character to be as obese as a tech-gossip blogger? Sorry, only the slightest of beer guts...
...owner will tell you that canines are compassionate and can sense human emotions. But a new study suggests that dogs' emotions are closer to ours than once thought. According to a study published Dec. 10 in the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, along with the most primal emotions - anger, fear - dogs also feel a simple form of envy...
...first to demonstrate that animals other than primates experience envy, which has long been considered an emotion that requires self-consciousness. "It gets very exciting if you can find a bit more primitive behavior in another species that's not a primate - maybe [that behavior] is not uniquely human," says Friederike Range, principle author of the study. (See pictures of presidential First Dogs...
...They wanted the same reward for the same work," says Paul Morris, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Portsmouth who specializes in animal behavior. Morris is quick to explain that the study's results aren't anthropomorphic: "I'm not saying that dog jealousy is precisely like human jealousy." Instead, he says, the dogs likely experienced a primitive form of envy...
...jihadis--and not just those in Pakistan--Kashmir has become a symbol of injustice against Muslims everywhere. Extremist websites and literature are replete with examples of atrocities by the Indian army and state police, which have ruthlessly put down the pro-independence militant movement. Human-rights groups also blame Indian authorities for widespread abuses like rape, torture and disappearances, but note that militants have engaged in similar brutal tactics. Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 50,000 people--civilians, soldiers and militants--have been killed in the past 20 years. Some activists say the toll is tens of thousands...