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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Hare could run a very profitable shell game. A team led by cognitive scientist Josef Topál of the Research Institute for Psychology in Hungary recently ran an experiment to study how 10-month-old babies pay attention to people. Hare then steps back until he’s standing between a pair of inverted plastic cups on the floor.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view. But it is not implausible to suppose that, for many people, going without meat will have less psychological meaning and consequently strengthen their resolve less than wearing buttons and signing petitions. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Lost

10,000 Birds

The crux of nature’s revenge on our dreadful protagonists is that they get lost, and stay lost, leaving them psychologically broken and at the mercy of a world so outside their comfort zone that they bought ten thousand dollars worth of camping equipment to cope with it for three days. It was sort of a game, getting lost in there.

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