"Spindle neurons - the specialised brain cells thought to process our emotions and that may even enable us to love and suffer - have been found in whales."

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19225804.000

I am very, very glad that the Democrats won control of the senate. Without that, Bush's unconstitutional creeping tyranny might have gone unchallenged as his enablers papered things over again and again ( Read more... )

Parents of a severely disabled girl in the US have revealed that they are keeping her child-sized in order to give her a better life.Looked at one way, this is a sensible and humane decision in response to a horrible situation. If someone is inherently so severely limited that they require constant care and attention, and will never have the ( Read more... )