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On watching a repeat of Planet Earth with David Attenborough, a thought sparked; we are pretty shit animals. Camels have huge reservoirs of fat to sustain them for weeks. Lions have killer teeth, tigers can disappear in one slight move. Bats and dolphins have their own in-built sonar systems to track down food, and jellyfish [...]

Don’t get me wrong, the internet is great, it’s basically an extension of consciousness, it’s a step toward telepathy – I honestly believe that within 20 years they will have figured out a way to put it actually in our brains and get rid of all these stupid computers. We’ll have to wear special glasses [...]

So I’m talking with my family over dinner and, inevitably, the question of vegetarianism arises thanks to my boycott-meat sister. Either her mouth spits out irrational veggie ideals, or the mere fact that the abstracts exist at the table provoke me into questioning. “So you don’t care about eating meat? How would you like it [...]