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On eating plants.
In the mid-1800s, Claude Bernard – the “father of experimental physiology” – began a series of experiments to create carnivorous rabbits. Don’t worry: Bernard wasn’t cultivating predatory beasts like the angry rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. At first he was simply starving animals until their acidic urine indicated that they’d begun to…
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On maternal bonds and cruelty.
We’ve all benefited from cruel research — so what do we do now?
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On brevity and conspiratorial-sounding language.
Many ideas, when phrased too briefly, sound an awful lot like conspiracy theories.
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On monsters and mirrors.
When the wrong people dare to act like our heroes, we call them monsters.
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On cooperation and cons: Our theft from young people.
We demanded sacrifices from younger people to fight Covid-19, but we’re not making sacrifices to help them in return.
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On threat.
We’re not focusing on the threats that will harm us most.
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On hubris and climate change.
I probably should’ve known this already, but climate science is REALLY hard!
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On noticing.
Even now, when many of us feel so powerless, we’re in control of our choices. And they matter.
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On Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘We Are the Weather.’
A lot of climate change is caused by cheeseburgers. Killer superbugs are, too.
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On social norms.
Would you pull over for a fire truck on its way to fight climate change?
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