Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.
Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.
It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.
Human divisions would be child's play for any reasonably competent alien overlord to exploit - check the masterful 'Twilight Zone' episode 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street' for an example of how that might play out.
Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.
Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.
For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no 'us' and 'them.' No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally.
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.
The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
