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NY Times Suggests Babies Are Not Conscious
NY Times Suggests Babies Are Not Conscious
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
The New York Times has decided the open question in science this week is whether a baby is conscious. Not a cluster of cells. Not a theoretical model. An actual newborn baby.
Carl Zimmer's 5 October piece, "Are Babies Conscious?" (yes that's a real headline) walks readers through a lab test and then informs them that a "squirming, gurgling infant" does not seem conscious, "at least not in the way adults are."
Zimmer's setup is the oddball-sound test. A...
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Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times,
Charlie Becker's family bookstore in Houston has been connecting people with literature for more than 30 years.
Becker said the family has "seen a lot of changes" since his dad opened the used and rare book store in 1993.
Charlie Becker, owner of Becker’s Books, in Houston on Aug. 8, 2026. Mark Felix for The Epoch Times
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Details of the much anticipated US-Japan trade mega deal have finally been revealed. First, Trump previewed in a Truth Social post on Tuesday: "Our MASSIVE Trade Deal with Japan has just launched!" He then boasted that "The scale of these projects are so large, and could not be done without one very special word, TARIFFS."
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