We have a new pope, round-the-clock news coverage, reporters and commentators all over the world talking about St. Francis of Assisi, and not a word about whether this might relate to how we live our lives in relation to our fellow animals.
The new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has taken the name Francis, after the patron saint of animals.
Just as Starbucks lures you into its coffee shops with the promise of a tasty treat and a nice buzz of energy in pleasant surroundings, many…
As you look at one area of this picture, other areas may appear to be rotating. (And there are lots of other examples of what’s known…
Fresh from analyzing a sample of rock, the Mars rover Curiosity has answered a key question: Could the Red Planet have once supported life? “From what…
If you thought the crow who goes snowboarding was just a one-off, this video, also from Russia, would seem to say otherwise. Or maybe it’s just…
What brought about the demise of the Neanderthals? Was it the arrival of the Cro-Magnon early-modern humans? John Fa of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust suggests that it was rabbits – or more precisely, the Neanderthals’ lack of skill in catching them.
Of course, those of us who studied ancient history under Prof. Monty Python know that killer bunnies were wiping out whole armies of humans well into the Middle Ages …
Long before cats invented the Internet and walking on keyboards, they had to make do with books. Emir O. Filipovic tweets this photo of a kitty…
10: He keeps saying, “There’s hardly any meat on this one.”
9: Points at the favorite in the “working dogs” category and says, “You’re fired!”
Just in time for Fashion Week, the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather has created a video that turns the tables on your typical fashion show. Instead…
Manatees – those peaceful herbivores who roam the inlets of Florida – are an endangered species. Maybe that’s why they appear to have taken off into…
When the British newspaper The Observer set up its 2012 investment challenge, the editors invited a team of three experts from a wealth management company, a…
The husky aces it. (But the #1 photobomb is still this one from last year.)
Photo by Brazil’s General Superintendency of Prisons of Alagoas (SGAP) in Arapiraca, Brazil. Authorities in Sao Paulo, Brazil, have announced that they are trying to get…
A hobbit in the movie, and what real-life hobbits (homo floresiensis) looked like when they flourished on the island of Flores in Indonesia for about 80,000…
While religion itself is not in itself bad for animals, religions that seek to separate humans from the natural world are indeed a problem.
(And, incidentally, there’s very little difference between a fundamentalist religious believer and an atheist transhumanist worshipper of technology.)
How are churches trying to adapt to the fact that fewer and fewer Americans are identified with a particular religion? And what does this have to…
And, honestly, wouldn’t you? [readon]
It is said that more than a thousand times ten years went by In which there was peace on this virgin Earth.Peace in the sky,Peace on…