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    Such close observations of apes and birds and dolphins remind us that humanity is part of a great animal kingdom. All species within this kingdom differ from one another in significant ways, to be sure, but the kingdom does not seem to be organized on the superior/inferior hierarchy. Species are merely different from one another; they are not better than, nor more or less advanced than, each other. The core experience of all animal life is strikingly similar.

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    Public Option to Start in 2013 - Yea Right

    Firedoglake has a story about America’s Affordable Health Choices bill just released by the House.  The proposed legislation conveniently delays the start of the Public Plan option until 2013 in order to buffer the cost projections and get the total under $1 trillion over ten years.

    How great is it that we may have a new President before the meat of the bill [...]



    the know-nothing prize

    Once again, the Templeton prize has been awarded not for new discovery, but for the admission by a scientist that there are mysteries that science cannot penetrate, and therefore the answer is WOO:

    French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d’Espagnat won the Templeton Prize for religion on Monday for work which acknowledges that science cannot fully explain “the nature of being”.

    He [...]