Don’t prosecute people who mention them, just forget they ever happened.… Read the rest

At least five injured at science conference in Bangalore.… Read the rest

India’s CBI to investigate claims that remains are those of victims of religious riots in 2002. … Read the rest

Some believed the student, some doubted, so questions were pressed…… Read the rest

U. of Phoenix founder: ‘We’re not going for that “expand their minds” bullshit.’… Read the rest

The idea that it takes a big fancy smart thing to make a lesser thing.… Read the rest

The spell he hopes to break is not religious belief but the conviction that it’s off-limits to scientific inquiry, taboo. … Read the rest

Which is stunted in childhood as play is displaced by organized sports, television, video games… Read the rest

Cinnamon roll said to look like Ma Teresa grabbed by someone who found it irritating. … Read the rest

Ancient piece of cheese on toast said to resemble Virgin Mary. Scoffers not convinced.… Read the rest

The skeptical librarians were right. Well done, skeptical librarians.… Read the rest

Sen sees identity as a personal choice that must be guided by a process of careful reasoning.… Read the rest

Le livre noir is doing its bit.… Read the rest

Ayn Rand Institute called unpaid voluntary work an ‘unforgivable act of altruism’.… Read the rest

Sharia police force modelled on Saudi moral enforcers subjects women to public humiliation. … Read the rest

The tension between the claims of national self-determination and universal human rights.… Read the rest

‘Those who refuse to submit publicly…must be denied citizenship.’… Read the rest

‘Darwin’s biography projects the politically correct image of a Christian who loses his faith through scientific inquiry.’ Eh?… Read the rest

Industry-funded bioethicists should not be writing the guidelines under which their own activities will be regulated. … Read the rest

‘Thinking small is not the novel’s motto; it is its subject.’… Read the rest