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...19th century Britain, however, after Darwin demonstrated how humans evolved from animals, humane societies formed, vegetarianism and pets became popular, and reports of animal suicide resurfaced. The usual suspect this time was the dog. In 1845 the Illustrated London News reported on a Newfoundland who had repeatedly tried to drown himself: "The animal appeared to get exhausted, and by dint of keeping his head determinedly under water for a few minutes, succeeded at last in obtaining his object, for when taken out this time he was indeed dead." (See the top 10 animal attacks on humans...
...Endeavour paper points to Iberian folklore on suicidal scorpions; when surrounded by flames, they will sting themselves in the back. In the early 1880s in Britain, a debate on the topic blossomed after a London zoologist placed a scorpion in a glass container, administered chloroform and claimed he observed the animal trying to sting itself. To prove him wrong, the psychologist Conwy Lloyd Morgan set up a series of traps for the critters. "He surrounded them with fire, condensed sunbeams on their backs, heated them in a bottle, burned them with phosphoric acid, treated them with electric shocks and subjected...
...then move back and forth in time, in seemingly random order, with characters from different time periods - sometimes older and younger versions of the same person - often overlapping on the stage. Only gradually do the stories emerge of two apparently unrelated families, one in London and one in Australia, who have been scarred in different ways by tragedy and abandonment...
...real change will have to wait for the retirement of Formula One's most influential figure. At most races sits a black-and-white bunker-mobile with blacked-out windows. That belongs to Ecclestone, who is not beloved and doesn't try to be - in an interview with the London Times last summer he appeared to give qualified praise to Adolf Hitler, saying that the German leader "could command a lot of people" and was "able to get things done...
...Expanding the U.K. election debate to people in the developing world could yield insights that ordinary British voters might not have. "Notoriously, at election time, nobody talks about global issues," says May Abdalla, who is coordinating the program in London. "It's all very parochial." There's even a chance the initiative could inspire a renewed interest in British democracy. "It's kind of re-energizing," says Onyeka Igwe, a documentary filmmaker in London who heard about the project on Facebook and plans to participate. "Giving up my vote actually makes me feel like my vote has more power than...