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The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas

The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas by Francine Patterson & Wendy Gordon Published in 1996 as part of The Great Ape Project: Equality beyond Humanity edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer We present this individual for your consideration: She communicates in sign language, using a vocabulary of over 1,000 words. She also understands spoken English…

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The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas
The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas
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Apes, Humans, Aliens, Vampires and Robots

By Colin McGinn Published in 1996 as part of The Great Ape Project: Equality beyond Humanity edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer As a child, you tend to take your position in life for granted, as written into the natural order of things. You were born, say, into a…

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Apes, Humans, Aliens, Vampires and Robots
Apes, Humans, Aliens, Vampires and Robots
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I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.

Robert Jay Lifton’s 2019 book is an amazing instrument for any reader attempting to slough the distinction between their own sincerity and our greater shared reality. With style and grace, Lifton begins by introducing the question “Who can own reality?” and then aptly commands attention to a top ten list…

Tell Tchaikovsky The News

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I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
Tell Tchaikovsky The News

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5 books to prepare yourself for late spring

Originally Published on LinkedIn (5/5/2020) Don’t know where to start? Try ‘ere. The Ambassadors: America’s Diplomats on the Front Lines / Paul Richter Often by design, middle-persons seldom get accolades for the rich and complex problems they solve on behalf of others. While some may consider it appropriate for all the credit to trickle up to the top, the exercise of…

Water Beside The White

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5 books to prepare yourself for a late spring
5 books to prepare yourself for a late spring
Water Beside The White

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TALKING WITH THE PLANETS

By Nikola Tesla First Published in Collier’s Weekly on February 9th, 1901 The idea of communicating with the inhabitants of other worlds is an old one. But for ages it has been regarded merely as a poet’s dream, forever unrealizable. And yet, with the invention and perfection of the telescope and the ever-widening…

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TALKING WITH THE PLANETS
TALKING WITH THE PLANETS
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Sep 18, 2022

Böswillige Beeinflussungskampagnen: Was sind sie und wie können sich Gemeinschaften wehren?

Im Jahr 2015 organisierten nachdenkliche und intelligente Führungspersönlichkeiten der Universität von Missouri eine Informationskampagne rund um den Hashtag „#PrayforMizzou“, die darauf abzielte, Wahrnehmung, Warnung und Wirkung in als Reaktion auf ekelhaft rassistische und homophobe Aktivitäten zu schaffen in der Gemeinde. Tage nach dem Start der Kampagne innerhalb einer kleinen Gruppe…

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Böswillige Beeinflussungskampagnen: Was sind sie und wie können sich Gemeinschaften wehren?
Böswillige Beeinflussungskampagnen: Was sind sie und wie können sich Gemeinschaften wehren?

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Aug 12, 2022

Continued Perplexities

An excerpt from Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain First Published in 1883 There was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with…

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Continued Perplexities
Continued Perplexities

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Jun 29, 2022

Anti-Abortion Campaigns and Rhetoric Boosted by Known Russian Disinformation Operations, Documentation Shows

Special Thanks to DefendingDemocracyTogether.Org for maintaining RussiaTweets.com “And on the pedestal, these words appear” - Percy Bysshe Shelley With the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe V. Wade with the sorrowful Dobbs decision, people in the United States and around the world find themselves horrified by a renewed threat of…

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Anti-Abortion Campaigns and Rhetoric Boosted by Known Russian Disinformation Operations…
Anti-Abortion Campaigns and Rhetoric Boosted by Known Russian Disinformation Operations…
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Jun 14, 2022

Circles

By Ralph Waldo Emerson First Published in 1841 Nature centres into balls, And her proud ephemerals, Fast to surface and outside, Scan the profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here. The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the…

Cha Cha Cha

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Circles
Circles
Cha Cha Cha

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May 16, 2022

HOW TO SIGNAL TO MARS

Wireless the Only Way Now, Says Nikola Tesla — Mirror Plans Not Practicable. by Nikola Tesla First Published in the New York Times on May 23rd, 1909 To the Editor of The New York Times: Of all the evidence of narrow mindedness and folly, I know of no greater than the stupid belief that this little planet is singled out to be the…

I Do Believe In Fairies

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HOW TO SIGNAL TO MARS
HOW TO SIGNAL TO MARS
I Do Believe In Fairies

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