When it dawns upon us, the size of the crimes we committed against nature.

Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time (via futurism.com).

By measuring brain signals, a neuroscience research group at the University of Tübingen has demonstrated for the first time that corvid songbirds possess subjective experiences. (…) “The last common ancestors of humans and crows lived 320 million years ago (…) It is possible that the consciousness of perception arose back then and has been passed down ever since.”