Discussions about genetic engineering tend to focus around pesticide resistance and Monsanto. Much like with electricity, genetic modification is simply an enabling technology: its ethical repercussions are dependent on what is being done and how. With the emergence of Australian genetically modified bananas, which
Respect is a complex issue, and lies at the heart of every movement for equality or against abuse. The primary struggle against racism, misogyny, and genocide are all directly related to the limited number of people who have taken the time to understand respect
In a brand new interview on NBC, Snowden lays out why the central focus on meta-data is backwards: costing us more than just money while failing to provide more safety, and also costing us our rights on the side. It is not a secret that
This video, of Max (the Labrador) and Savanna (the Cheetah), originates from the Cincinnati Zoo in December, 2013. To understand how they can play together so easily, it helps to know that the two slender animals have known each other since September. They met
This 5 minute video shows a compilation of a great deal of human knowledge, and does so efficiently, artistically, and impressively. If you didn’t know: you will better understand. Anything you did know, will be refreshed and become more accessible to you. It helped
Now, to be a fully functional person is a lot more complicated than following 10 steps (some of which you hopefully already knew), but these 10 will certainly help make you a better person, and the world a better place. 1. We live in a
If written or spread early enough, and not investigated, any myth can start to cement itself into the consciousness of human populations. All it takes to uncover the truth is to the look into real data, but we rarely look past what we think
From the international to the local level, climate change (or a state shift in terms of climate states) is a leading issue. The factors that weigh into climate systems are many, and we cannot forgot that no system on this planet is driven by
The power to perceive and interact with your surroundings is a part of being conscious, being alive. Solving complex problems is limited to animals with a neocortex, which takes up the majority of the human brain. Elephants actually have a far bigger brain than
Asking the question of whether it is safe to be taking birth control pills yields differing results, depending on the context. Officially, and publicly, according to the US Department Of Health And Services: “Birth control pills are safe and work well in preventing pregnancy. Using
