Have you ever wondered what chickens are talking about? Chickens are quite the communicators—their clucks, squawks, and purrs are not just random sounds but a complex language system. These sounds are their way of interacting with the world and expressing joy, fear, and social cues to one another.

Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A Goldthwaite, eds.  Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically.  New York University Press, 2024. I did a blurb for the back cover: In Ethical Eating, authors from all walks of life relate their daily struggles—moral as well as economic—to eat diets that

In September, scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health announced they had successfully grown “humanized” kidneys inside pig embryos. The scientists genetically altered the embryos to remove their ability to grow a kidney, then injected them with human stem cells. The

The heyday of generative AI is upon us, with millions of images and billions of words per day being produced by models like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and GPT-3. By 2025, experts predict up to 90 percent of new online content could be AI-generated. But what does this mean for human creativity? How

In 2017, the Scottish philosopher William MacAskill coined the name “longtermism” to describe the idea “that positively affecting the long-run future is a key moral priority of our time.” The label took off among like-minded philosophers and members of the “effective altruism” movement, which sets