The suffering of animals in war is a topic usually reduced to horses, dogs, and pigeons. To those “noble” creatures that humans managed to tame and then deploy in their conflicts with such elegance that, years later, they even build them monuments. In London, on Park Lane next to Hyde Park, there really is a…
Recently, I read an absolutely fascinating article by two Japanese scientists who study ant behavior. They described how one species of ant uses sophisticated chemistry to wipe out an entire colony of another species. The process unfolds as follows: The queen of the parasitic species approaches the colony of another species. Since ants rely on…
Because I regularly watch both British and Czech television channels—and therefore also the commercials that run on them—I was reminded of a quote from Norman Douglas’s book South Wind. He wrote it back in 1917, and the quote goes: “You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” That line inspired me to…
