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NATURAL SELECTIONS

Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 30, 2008
Mass ignorance on 'half-human embryos'
On Sunday a couple of weeks ago, an extraordinary statement was read out in many churches in Britain. It had been prepared by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales with the aim of fomenting protests to Members of Parliament.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 9, 2008
Can we be forever young?
Jeanette Winterson's latest novel, "The Stone Gods," is set in the future on a distant planet whose resources have been over- exploited by colonizing humans.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Dec 12, 2007
How do chimps top us in a brain test?
"We are 98.77 percent chimpanzee," Tetsuro Matsuzawa told me last week. "We are their evolutionary neighbors."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 14, 2007
In vino veritas — or not
I was drinking a beer and eating sashimi in a tiny bar in Tokyo's trendy Shibuya district last week when one of the office workers there wondered aloud, "Is evolution the same as progress?"
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 31, 2007
Meditations on meditation and enhancing the mind
At Enkakuji Temple in Kamakura, at dawn on a March morning several years ago, I came as close as I ever have to satori, the Zen term for spiritual enlightenment. Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming any sort of deep insight, just that there, in that corner of Kanagawa Prefecture, I came to understand...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 10, 2007
Not all of us know how to play fair
I remember, as a child, seeing in a museum the skeletons of birds, bats and apes, and someone pointing out to me that they all had the same bones in their arms. It was the first time I grasped that we all had a common evolutionary ancestor, though at the time I hardly thought about it in those terms...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 12, 2007
Feelings we share?
To what extent do animals consciously experience emotions?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 29, 2007
Let's (try to) get serious about silliness
August is known as the "silly season" in the media in the United States and the United Kingdom, as newspaper editors faced with legislators all gone on holiday struggle in vain to fill their pages and resort to, well, silly stories.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 8, 2007
How is it our time seems to speed up?
"I never think of the future; I find it comes soon enough."
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jul 11, 2007
Satellite of love
Empress Michiko has a habit of gazing at the moon on New Year's Day. How do I know? Well, here's the poem the Empress wrote for this year's New Year poetry reading:
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jun 13, 2007
Religion's cute, but creation chemistry is complex
The ancient Chinese believed the universe began inside a cosmic egg. In Japanese mythology, two gods, Izanagi and Izanami, stirred the oceans with a giant spear, forming the islands of Japan and, eventually, its people. There are countless more creation myths. Every culture has them. But I like to think...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 30, 2007
Sex, morals and DNA
It wouldn't be surprising to see a message along the following lines on an Internet dating site: "SJF, 26, wants to meet kind, generous, romantic, honest man."
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 9, 2007
OK computer, is that person's face happy or sad?
Afriend of mine told me the other day about the time she was teaching special needs children in Miyazaki Prefecture. One boy had autism, and threw terrible tantrums the first few times my friend came to teach.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Apr 11, 2007
Bye-bye 'Borneo'
For how much longer will the name "Borneo" conjure up the same sense of magic as it does now, or as it did when I was a child?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Mar 14, 2007
What's 'separate' about humankind?
In a sense, I'm a mind reader. In writing this, I believe that you think that I want you to think that I intend to persuade you of something I believe. Got that?
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Feb 14, 2007
Brain-scanning gets closer to reading minds
Is the world inherently good or bad? You might believe that people are essentially good. Then again, you might believe that most people just pretend to be good -- and some don't even bother to conceal that they're not. You might complain that it's a stupid question in the first place.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 31, 2007
England's white Africans cast ironic new light on reality TV's racism row
Reality TV shows, genetic research papers, politics, Hollywood and Bollywood rarely get mentioned in the same article. This week, though, in a maneuver akin to an astronomical alignment that only comes around once in a generation, I will attempt to achieve just that.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 10, 2007
New light cast on capital-punishment issues
It's not especially pleasing to write about death in the first column of the New Year, but there's a lot of it about.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Dec 13, 2006
Polonium, peacocks -- and a dead spy
It's one of the biggest stories of the year -- and certainly the most unusual. I'm talking about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy living in London who was poisoned with a radioactive isotope last month. Nothing like this has been seen for nearly 20 years, back when the Cold War...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 29, 2006
Cell findings point to other animals with 'consciousness'
Elephants looking at themselves in mirrors, a humpback whale washed up on a beach north of New York, and a freak dolphin that was caught off Wakayama Prefecture.
Who needs AI when you have Hatsune Miku?
Over the first six months of 2024, a handful of songs using Vocaloid singer Hatsune Miku’s voice have enjoyed widespread attention, underlining a global interest in the character and the technology she represents.
Bloodied Trump survives assassination attempt at political rally
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is surrounded and evacuated by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Trump was rushed off stage at the rally after shots rang out.
Shooter came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
An aerial view shows the stage where Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump had been standing during an assassination attempt the day before, and the roof of a nearby building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.
Yen’s woes seem too big for even a BOJ hike this month to solve
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
Think air conditioning is a requirement for a Tokyo summer? Think again.
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.
How to tweak your diet when temperatures spike
Most people think of hydration as a strictly liquid-based concept, but eating foods with high water content is an essential part of making it through a Japanese summer unscathed.

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