Bulletin: Not everybody loves your dog
Farhad Manjoo doesn’t want to pet your dog. In fact, he’d prefer it if you’d keep your dog to yourself — out of the park he wants to read in, away from the cafe where he enjoys his Frappuccino, and...
View ArticleAnother unlikely friendship: A dog and a fox
We humans, with our vastly superior intellects, and being the far more evolved and civilized species, don’t need no stinkin’ animals to show us how to live life. Do we? You’d think not — especially...
View ArticleDrones and droids and robot dogs, oh my!
The older I get the more wary I become of technology. What I haven’t figured out is whether one necessarily follows the other: Am I just becoming more fearful as I age, or is technology proving itself...
View ArticleRun-on sentience: Are we going way overboard in attributing emotions to dogs?
Lately, it seems, hardly a month goes by without either some viral video or paper-writing scientist suggesting that — contrary to what scientists and the media think we think — dogs feel emotions much...
View ArticleThe robot dog: An idea whose time never came and (we hope) never will
Can we go ahead and bury the robot dog, once and for all? It was an inane idea from the get go — thinking that Americans or people from any other reasonable country would want a pet with batteries. The...
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