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Topic: Humanity

Human hand touching robotic hand. (Getty Images / Andriy Onufriyenko)

AI liberation could be our best hope

Topher McDougal

Doctor holding tablet showing brain human and body (Getty Images/Vithun Khamsong)

AI, health care and human realities

Arjun V.K. Sharma - Undark

Planet Earth and moon from space (Getty Images/photovideostock/NASA)

Earth is exceeding its planetary bounds

Neanderthal skull (shutterstock)

Studying the past to change our present

Elizabeth Sawchuk, Mary Prendergast - The Conversation

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Parrots teach themselves to dance: study

Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History
by Adam Rutherford (Getty/00Mate00/The Experiment)

Why humans are unique among animals

Adam Rutherford

Gwyneth Paltrow (Getty/Phillip Faraone)

Gwyneth Paltrow is a human after all?

(Getty Images)

The science of serendipity

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Koko and her Lifelong Teacher and Friend, Dr. Penny Patterson (The Gorilla Foundation)

The gorilla who taught us to be human

(AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

How globalization became an insult

Michael J. Brenner - The Globalist

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier (Henry Holt and Co/Getty/Grandfailure)

How virtual reality proves we are real

(Getty/Chet Strange/Salon)

the mindset of the neo nazi

Kali Holloway - Alternet

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(Reuters/Kimberly White)

Joanna Rothkopf

(Comedy Central)

Nye on science of racism

Joanna Rothkopf

The truth about crying

Michael Trimble

Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman in "Marathon Man" (Paramount Pictures)

The secret language of pain

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(Patrick Hall/Screenshot)

Mary Fallin (AP/Cliff Owen)

GOP governor's ugly blood lust

Natasha Lennard

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