Word: revealing
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...Jack Bauer-esque terrorist standoff, is it ethical to torture a horse if it would compel a terrorist to reveal the location of a ticking bomb and save thousands of lives? At the April 24 “Facing Animals” colloquium, this scenario is presented as one of many to explore the controversial nuances of ethical animal treatment. “I think our intuitions provide clear direction. We ought to torture the horse,” says Patricia Herzog, panelist and author. Not all panelists agree: Martha C. Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics...
...feedback as in a noisy heavy metal performance or an infinite corridor of TV screens on videotape. So consciousness isn’t a regular loop; it’s a strange loop.Meanwhile, while presenting arguments of logic, clever bits of analogy here and there add up to reveal that the book itself is more than just a friendly essay: everywhere you turn, “Strange Loop” is drawing back on itself, too. For example, the book’s arguments are made almost entirely through symbols, analogies, and tales of personal experience. Appropriately, Hofstadter devotes much...
Next, the video devolves into a frenzy of successive shots showing motionless frames of plastic models in order to reveal the violence that plagues the town. The reasons for the chaos are unclear, but the band’s sinister, plastic presence seems like the driving force. The animals in the zoo are let free and run amok. Violence and nudity await at every street corner...
...said. “Back in those days, you thought it kinda might be fake, but if you believed anything, you thought it was more real than not real.” Hesoon learned the truth, but it took longer for the business to reveal itself to the fans...
...drug use and memory. Volkow’s team at the Brookhaven National Laboratory has made scientific breakthroughs indicating that traditional treatment for drug addiction may not be the only way—or even the best way—to reduce drug abusers’ cravings. Her findings reveal the role in addiction played by the section of the brain responsible for self control, as well as the part associated with pleasure. Volkow said her team had proved this with a number of experiments, including one in which rats were administered cocaine upon an auditory cue. When the experiment...