Word: speciesism
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DISCOVERED. LAONASTES AENIGMAMUS, believed to be a member of an entire family of mammals previously unknown to science; in central Laos. In 1996, scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society spotted the small, ratlike animal being sold as food in a Lao market. Genetic analysis revealed the animal...
Few game designers are ambitious enough to even contemplate a game in which you get to control the entire evolution of a species, from the bacterial level all the way up to the galactic. Then again, few game designers are as quietly ambitious as Will Wright, creator of Sim City...
Ambitious as all this is, Wright and his brain trust have taken pains to make the game as fast and easy to run as possible. It will also be interactive: all players' species will coexist in the same galaxy, via the Internet. The game itself will decide, say, which planet...
In many ways, the packs of tourists who survey the Yard have convinced me that we are a unique species. No one walks to class quite like a Harvard student. No one struggles under the weight of laundry quite like a Harvard student. No one sneezes quite like a Harvard...
North America's biggest cat is making a comeback and seems to be heading east in the process. After retreating to the western half of the country for more than a century, scores of cougars--a.k.a. mountain lions--have been spotted in the Midwest in recent years, thanks to the...