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Whether that happens will ultimately come down to all of us, since we have the chance to choose better food three times a day (or more often, if we're particularly hungry). It's true that most of us would prefer not to think too much about where our food comes from or what it's doing to the planet - after all, as Chipotle's Ells points out, eating is not exactly a "heady intellectual event." But if there's one difference between industrial agriculture and the emerging alternative, it's that very thing: consciousness. Niman takes care with each...
...theory before they try it out in humans. But sometimes they go in the opposite direction, using animals to see whether certain theories apply only to humans. A new paper in Science does exactly that, investigating whether a widely documented human phenomenon - the fact that we tend to prefer people who behave the same way we do in social interactions - exists in other species...
...happen at all? There is no sensible answer for the Big Bang unless you move over into the religious side and say, "Well, it began because God began it." That's why quite a lot of scientists are nervous about the Big Bang. They quite prefer having something that doesn't require somebody sort of poking a finger in and saying, "Now it's starting." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
Today, Cubao X is buzzing. Shops come and go quickly, so you never know who will open their doors at 4 p.m. - the hour that most of the owners, being night owls, prefer to commence business. "It's completely different from a mall - it's still independent and nonmainstream," says indie filmmaker Bong Salaveria. His appointment-only antique store, Vintage Pop, was one of the vanguard establishments of the newly recolonized compound. Salaveria closed it in July - he is about to emigrate to Canada - but Vintage Pop's range of 20th century kitsch, which Salaveria sometimes customized, was emblematic...
There are also plenty of options for kicking back, Pinoy-style. In the daytime, you can hide out from the heat in the cool confines of My Breathing Space, tel: (63) 929 450 7733, and sip a Philippine barako coffee (or, if you prefer, a Vietnamese rose tea) among a bewildering medley of model cats and novelty knickknacks. If you get hungry, you can order a thin-crust pizza at Bellini's, tel: (63-2) 913 2550. ? If you simply want a drink, sit back and people-watch at Mogwai, tel: (63-2) 913 1060, which also features...