Word: speciesism
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The crowd is young, hip and thirsty. But there is plenty of cold beer around and the spirits are, um, high, especially when the word gets out that the brew is made with hemp - marijuana's non- psychoactive cousin. Despite the rowdy comments about getting stoned, this is not a...
1988 ENDANGERED EARTH For the second time, the magazine selected a thing rather than a person: Planet of the Year (the first time: 1982, when the computer was Machine of the Year). The choice, prompted by mounting environmental crises, was a call to arms. TIME saw mankind in "a war...
While both Bush and Cheney are political creatures, they are of utterly different species. Bush loves the foreplay of politics; Cheney can't stand it. Bush learned it at his father's knee; Cheney came to it much later and as a student. Worse, he was a student of political...
Sometimes wrong but rarely in doubt, Stephen Jay Gould was a 19th century naturalist plunked down in the 20th century. His most notable scientific achievement was the theory of "punctuated equilibria" (co-authored with Niles Eldredge), arguing that species don't evolve gradually, as the conventional wisdom suggested, but rather...
The eradication of smallpox was one of humanity's great success stories. After thousands of years of suffering at the hands of the virus, the human race gathered all its wit and cunning and conquered the scourge, eradicating it forever. Well, forever lasted less than 25 years. It does not...