Word: speciesism
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Monterey, Calif. - It was the day for the kind of tough questions at TIME?s Future of Life conference that raise temperatures and unleash tempers: Should we begin planning for an onslaught of designer babies? Has the genomics revolution hoodwinked investors? Are genetically modified crops a menace or boon to...
Dramatic as it was, the exchange didn?t cloud the generally upbeat view of the future voiced by most of the speakers. None of the sessions showed this positive mood more clearly than the one on the loss of species, which ecologist Thomas Lovejoy estimated was occurring at an alarming...
Fitzgerald has been upwardly mobile in his free time since then, working as a draftsman for a South Boston architecture firm last summer and attending night school to learn computer assisted design. In high school, he’d had an interest in studying endangered species, but self-deprecatingly admits...
Yes, he would surely have been right at home bantering with fellow free spirit Jim Watson or debating evolutionary theory with Richard Dawkins or exchanging ideas about biodiversity with E.O. Wilson. And though he wasn?t ?a molecule man,? he recognized good science when he saw it. He would have...
When Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed to eliminate illegal drugs from "every square inch of the country" by Apr. 30, listeners could be forgiven their doubts. This was the man, after all, who once pledged to untangle Bangkok's perpetually snarled roads. Traffic, it turns out, is still a...