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Monkeys Have Morals After All

Darwin himself might have raised a bushy eyebrow at the idea that monkeys and apes have a sense of morality and the capacity to tell right from wrong. Such moral qualities have been widely held to be part and parcel of what distinguishes us from our furrier simian relatives – but fresh research implies otherwise.

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James Lovelock Says Live It Up: We’ve Got “20 years before it hits the fan”

This is a follow-up to my previous post, “If You Knew the World Would End in the Near Future, What Would You Do?” Smile, this guy says we’re all screwed! It’s not the way I wanted to start my Saturday, reading that James Lovelock, the author of the [...]

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If You Knew the World Would End in the Near Future, What Would You Do?

It’s a new take on the age-old question that takes the form, “If you could do something without getting caught, would you?” A retreating ice shelf in Greenland. Photo by John Rudolph Usually, the ’something’ involves having an affair, stealing a large amount of money, or even killing [...]

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