in fact, a child. A baby is not just an item that you should be able to throw away.Pro-choicers also use the term “mother” for pregnant women, when they are advocating for “life of the mother” or“health of the mother” exceptions...
After decades of polite scotomisation, CNN has started interviewing actual Palestinians in Gaza and East Jerusalem about what they’ve been suffering through, instead of leading with traumatised cats and dogs in Ashdod. Here in the UK, it’s gone backwards. Any Palestinian who speaks gets the ...
Aug 2014 TEDSalon NY2014 Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans 19:29Aug 2014 TED@NYC Jarrett J. Krosoczka: Why lunch ladies are heroes 05:24Aug 2014 TED2014 Aziza Chaouni: How I brought a river, and my city, back to life 05...
Rhetoric and Propaganda in Discussions about AbortionWhen you talk about abortion, are you using rhetoric or propaganda? Both rhetoric and propaganda involve trying to persuade another person of something. Rhetoric is the art of trying to persuade someone about a good, or doing something good, like...
Of course tigers and lions should live in their own habitat. It is natural. Despite them being both cats, they are different enough and should be left to their own separate (but equal) societies. But switch to humans and try the same. If you suggest France should be left to French, ...
What domesticated dogs were for husbandry, domesticated cats would be for agriculture (hence also the familiar figure of Abu Hurairah). In Matthew 11:29, Jesus famously equates taking up a yoke with learning — the verb is μανθανω (manthano), to learn, from which English gets ...
There is good evidence that children who live in a house with a cat are less likely to become sensitized. Indeed, a major birth cohort in Detroit reported that children who had a cat at home during the first year of life were still less likely to be sensitized to cat allergens at the ...
The latter’s influence would soon spread throughout Afghanistan, whose fearsome warrior culture would be buttressed by fervent belief in the “one true God.” Toward the turn of the millennium, a group of Turkic warriors who had become fierce converts to Islam founded a kingdom in the ...
“real Muslims” are, dismissing those who practice or espouse terrorism, for instance, as “not real Muslims,” or “not practicing true Islam.” Muslims themselves are even stronger discriminators, and that’s been true since Shia and Sunni split centuries ago. In fact, members of different...
After a roughly ten-hour drive from Chicago on Saturday, I arrived in Vermillion, South Dakota, where reader Hugh Britten, his wife Lynn (both biologists at the University of South Dakota) and their daughter Caitlin greeted me with excellent hospitality, including two cats, a d*g, and a lo...