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Letters to Guardian on Chomsky Interview *

Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by

From Chomsky, and Kemal Pervanic, who survived the Omarska concentration camp.… Read the rest



The Electromagnetic Chaos Eliminator *

Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by

Also magnetic toe rings, crocodile protein peptide, balancing vibration.… Read the rest



Scott McLemee on the Lisbon Eearthquake *

Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by

Voltaire was sarcastic, Rousseau was unabomberish, Kant pondered gas pockets.… Read the rest



Paul Gross on Science Standards [pdf] *

Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by

Draft Science Framework for the
2009 NAEP gets a C – it needs work.… Read the rest



House Republicans Work to Cut Food Stamps *

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Must pay for upper bracket tax cuts somehow.… Read the rest



Cardinal Says ‘Faithful’ Should Listen to Science *

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But then demands that science listen to religion as ‘an expert voice’. Expert in what?… Read the rest



Guy Takes 15 Years to Start Questioning Moonism *

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Still, better late than never.… Read the rest



Quantum Mechanics Must be Wrong *

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Or maybe Mills got his math wrong, or maybe his critics did, or maybe not.… Read the rest



We Live in 2005, not 905 *

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Danish cartoonists dare to tease the prophet. Marches ensue. … Read the rest



Cass Sunstein Takes a Look at Alito’s Dissents *

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He is often more conservative than his colleagues.… Read the rest



Anomalies

Nov 3rd, 2005 7:20 pm | By

Catherine Bennett is amusing.

It is strange, isn’t it, to think that this fine-looking couple, recently seen experiencing spiritual ecstasy in East Grinstead, presumably believe in Scientologist founder Ron L Hubbard’s story of Xenu, the galactic tyrant who froze his victims and stored them in the Earth’s volcanos?

Yeah? I didn’t know that. I don’t keep up with Scientology (too busy keeping up with Feng shui, I guess), and I didn’t know that. The galactic tyrant! Froze his victims! Stored them in earth’s volcanoes. Very cool. Almost as cool as playing football in pyjamas with no goal and no crossbar and no hugging.

If, as Madonna says, she has been ridiculed for professing her beliefs, her best expedient would

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Jon Pike Reviews Ted Honderich *

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‘book ought to have done very serious damage to his reputation as one of Britain’s leading philosophers.’… Read the rest



Eve Garrard Reviews Michael Ignatieff *

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Rights are far more ethically significant than a useful device to ensure that executive power is not abused.… Read the rest



French Hijab Ban Widely Accepted *

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Bizarre headline bears no relation to article.… Read the rest



Turtles? Red Bracelets? Xenu? Holy Water? *

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Lionel Blue maundering on Thought for the Day looks like golden age of secularism.… Read the rest



E O Wilson: Can Biology Do Better Than ‘Faith’? *

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Rapprochement between science and religion may be neither possible nor desirable.… Read the rest



McMartin Preschool Case: ‘I Lied” *

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If he gave an answer they didn’t like, they asked again until he gave the right one.… Read the rest



Well Why Bother Then? *

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Bush is widely expected to pardon Libby if he is convicted.… Read the rest



Emma Brockes Interviews Noam Chomsky *

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Things get bad-tempered over Bosnia and Srebrenica.… Read the rest



Norm Geras on the Reductions of the Left *

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Category of ‘imperialism’ so exhausts the thinking of part of the left as to lock it into regrettable positions.… Read the rest