Word: speciesism
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Fischer is the poster boy for the mad chess genius, a species with a pedigree going back at least to Paul Morphy, who after his triumphal 1858-59 tour of Europe returned to the U.S., abruptly quit the game and is said to have wandered the streets of New Orleans...
Over the past two million years, Earth’s climate has cycled about a dozen times between periods of cold and warm conditions. Most of the species on Earth today have thrived over this period because they can accommodate a wide range of temperatures. However, today’s...
Natural ecosystems are the ancestral sources of species that we now manage for crop production. These evolved under climate regimes that are now being supplanted by new conditions, mostly warmer, some wetter, and some drier, and some rapidly alternating between wetter and drier. In many areas the unusually warm conditions...
To ensure the preservation of most or all of the 3,000 threatened species, the center hopes eventually to create a $15 million endowment. "That works out to about $5,000 per species," says Thibodeau. "In fact, for $5,000 we will be delighted to save an endangered plant in...
Charles Krauthammer's article "In Search of the Silver Bullet" [ESSAY, Nov. 4] puts science into perspective. No new theory and no technology will extinguish the tendency in man to kill members of his own species. Evil is as permanent as the sun and the stars. When we figure out...