Author: Daniela
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Quote For The Day
Originally posted on The Dish: “The suggestion that any feature of this ruthless business is designed to afford “protection” to the pigs, much less to the babies, is perverse. Normal, healthy mother pigs, for example, do not after birth fall over and crush their young — as if they were all just naturally clumsy. These…
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Sunday Prayer
Chilly fall morning, the deck rimed with frost. Warm and serene at the kitchen table in the early hours of the day. Buddy’s outside, bright yellow ball closely guarded at his side, erect and alert, nose twitching – sniffing, sniffing something interesting in the air. The sky ribboned in pale blue, rose and the faintest…
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The Perfect Response to Conservative Advocate of More Guns in NY Times Op-Ed
Stacy Manhattan 6 hours ago Only when you have betrayed civil society and the ideals of equality before the law, neighborliness, civic tolerance and reasoned discourse, does the notion of arming everyone look like “progress.” The American Right in 2014 cannot see past its own dark fantasies of perpetual threat and dim fears of chaos…
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Memories Passed Down in DNA
New research from Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, has shown that it is possible for some information to be inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in DNA. During the tests they learned that that mice can pass on learned information about traumatic or stressful experiences – in this case a fear of the smell of…
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Nobel laureates call for a revolutionary shift in how humans use resources
Reposted from theguardian.com, Deforestation is among a growing list of planetary ailments, the Nobel laureates warn. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features Eleven Nobel laureates will pool their clout to sound a warning, declaring that mankind is living beyond its means and darkening its future. At a conference in Hong Kong coinciding with the annual Nobel awards…
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