Life and death - trolley ology. Interest in “trolleyology”—a way of studying moral quandaries—has taken off in recent years.
Some philosophers say it sheds useful light on human behaviour, others see it as a pointless pursuit of the unknowable The “trolley problem” thought experiment is designed to test our moral intuitions A shocking memo leaked to Prospect, drafted by civil servants from the treasury and the department of health, exposes the stark reality of future cutbacks. Women's eggs $$ "Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality," says the headline in the New York Times.
Health care reform, college aid, and stimulus-funded jobs are evening out the distribution of resources. An age of equality is dawning. Will Saletan writes about politics, science, technology, and other stuff for Slate. He’s the author of Bearing Right. Follow him on Twitter. Cannibalism. While strolling last month through one of the dimly lit backrooms in a wing of the National Galleries of Scotland, my inner eye still tingling with thousands of Impressionistic afterimages, pudgy Rubensian cherubs, and gothic quadrangles, one irreverent painting leapt out at me in a very contemporary sort of way. It was part of an early-16th-century triptych showing what appeared to be a solemn, middle-aged clergyman in gilded ecclesiastical robes commanding three naked adolescent boys before him in a bathtub. Now, I must say, my first thought on seeing this salacious image was that the Catholic Church has been a hebephilic haven for far longer than anyone realized.