Creature discomforts
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Research fellow in theology and animal welfare at Mansfield College, Oxford, England, Andrew Linzey believes that theologians and church leaders are starting to question traditional Christian attitudes towards animals. Linzey argues that theologians have been wrong in believing that God created the world solely for the benefit of human beings. He believes that humans owe animals justice, pointing out that both are sentient beings. Linzey maintains that the public ridicule he has received from some of his opponents shows that his ideas are now perceived as 'threatening and controversial.'
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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Round beet makes world sweeter
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The bottom of the sugar beet plant has been altered by biotechnologists from a conical shape to a rounded one which has been designed to avoid soil erosion when plucked from the ground. The round-bottomed plant can be cleanly removed from the ground. The wider-shaped table beet is not as efficient at accumulating sugar as the conical-shaped beet and so table beet was genetically engineered to accumulate more sucrose. The research was carried out by De Montfort University's Norman Borlaug Institute for Plant Science Research.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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Amazed by muscular fleas
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Scientists are often engrossed with wonder in the same way that children are. This sense of wonder may be excited by fireflies and may be linked to obsessional interests which a scientific career allows them to pursue. The jumping power of fleas and the aesthetic sense of bower birds are also reason for wonder, yet the achievements of humans are also able to excite scientists. Stephen Jay Gould still finds the endless movement of the world worthy of wonder.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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