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Einstein’s Morality
Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.
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Hunter Rebecca Francis Has a Thing or Two to Teach Us About the Wild
In an age of social-media shaming, a single tweet can launch a crusade. But maybe Ricky Gervais should have picked another woman to mess with. By Kerry Howley.
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US judge overturns Idaho law banning secret filming of animal abuse at agricultural facilities
A US federal judge has ruled that Idaho’s law banning secret filming of animal abuse at agricultural facilities is unconstitutional, giving animal rights activists across the country hope that the decision will pave the way to overturn similar laws in other states.
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After the Bomb, a War on Information
In the months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government tried to cover up what it had done. By Susan Southard.
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Hiroshima
How six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath. By John Hersey. (August 31, 1946)
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Clicking With a Conscience
How much is your attention on the Internet really worth? By Tim Hwang.
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The Hidden Connection Between Morality and Language
Janet Geipel of the University of Trento in Italy posed fictional scenarios to German-, Italian-, and English-speaking college students in each student’s native language and in a second language that they spoke almost fluently. What Geipel found in her July 2015 study is that “the use of a foreign language, as opposed to a native language, elicited less harsh moral judgments.” She concluded that a distance is created between emotional and moral topics when speaking in a second language.
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Would You Rather Lose Your Morals or Your Memory?
A new study sheds light on a common side effect of dementia—the loss of morals. Strohminger’s research depends in part on an extremely rare type of brain cell, the spindle neuron. Outside of the sharpest mammals, like dolphins, elephants, and great apes, no other animal shares them with us.
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The Problem of Symmetrical Threats
Tim Campbell identifies a problem with the standard view of self-defense.
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Pope Francis permits priests to forgive abortion
In an open letter to Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the President of the Pontifical Council, Pope Francis said priests will be able to grant forgiveness to women who have had abortions.
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Hans Morgenthau and Hannah Arendt: An Intellectual Passion
They maintained an intellectual companionship for decades—colored, it should be said, by an element of the erotic. By Barry Gewen.
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The Worst of the Worst
Judy Clarke excelled at saving the lives of notorious killers. Then she took the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. By Patrick Radden Keefe.
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Touting morality, Billionaire Texas Brothers top 2016 Political Donor List
One Saturday morning in August, Pastor Farris Wilks, a brawny man with a close-cut beard, walked up to the altar of the church he leads, the Assembly of Yahweh, 7th Day.
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Shaker Aamer released from Guantánamo Bay after 14-year detention
No 10 says no plan to detain British resident on return from imprisonment without trial in US military camp where he was beaten.
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Look who’s back
Anna Katharina Schaffner reviews Gavriel D. Rosenfeld’s “Hi Hitler! How the Nazi past is being normalized in contemporary culture.”
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Neuroscience: Tortured reasoning
Lasana T. Harris commends a book exposing the lack of scientific basis to ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’.
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Organ waiting list policy benefits the wealthy, study charges
Wealthier patients can afford to get on more organ transplant lists, giving them an advantage, a new study says. By Laura Beil.
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Plan to Export Chimps Tests Law to Protect Species
A plan to export eight chimps from a research center in Atlanta to a zoo in England is a first test of an endangered species listing that says that only actions that benefit chimpanzees as a species should be allowed. By James Gorman.
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5 Yemeni Guantánamo Inmates Are Sent to United Arab Emirates
The lower-level detainees had been held for nearly 14 years but never charged with a crime, and their transfers reduce the population at the prison in Cuba to 107. By Charlie Savage.
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Is evil a disease? ISIS and the neuroscience of brutality
It's hard to understand how the Nazis, ISIS and other radical groups can turn ordinary people into brutal killers. But perhaps evil is a disease – one we can treat. (Nov. 11)
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