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I Always Knew Flamingos Were Gay
2008-05-18 02:30:00
And now a scientist says so, so that proves it. According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many others. If homosexuality is natural in the animal kingdom, then there is the question of why evolution hasn’t eliminated this ...
Monkey Wars
2008-01-06 18:07:00
In just a couple of months, this nation will have been at war in Iraq for half a decade. To date, 3,909 American soldiers have perished. Tens of thousands more have been physically and psychologically wounded. Who are these men and women who fight on our behalf? Often, they are those ...
Can You Say ? Anthropomorphizing?
2008-01-03 14:58:00
Maybe the Invisible Hand of the market is tickling monkeys too, which would make it kind of like the Hand of God, but I?m not convinced.
Naturally Cooperative
2007-08-17 13:17:00
Here’s an interesting article from today’s Washington Post: Birds’ Cooperative Breeding Sheds Light on Altruism Why do we help out our relatives when one of them needs a buck or a meal, and who gains the most from such acts of generosity? It’s a tough question to answer in human populations, where self-awareness and cultural expectation cloud the ...
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