Natalie Angier unimpressed by Bush’s assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks Vapo Rub for the national charley horse.… Read the rest
Cambridge Mosque press release [on mosque site] 
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet. … Read the rest
Iran’s bloggers in censorship protest
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their blogs after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities.… Read the rest
The new Taliban codex
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It is forbidden to work as a teacher under the current puppet regime. Teachers must recieve a warning; next time, a beating; next, death.… Read the rest
A Conversation with Akbar Ganji and Martha Nussbaum [audio]
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Iran’s most prominent political dissident talks to the philosopher.… Read the rest
Hearings into child abuse at Goldenbridge
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Chills the blood.… Read the rest
Kenan Malik interprets the Dispatches Muslim Survey.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.… Read the rest
The Cardinal’s concern for children.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.… Read the rest
Feynman on the Challenger
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Appendix F – a must read.… Read the rest
Norm Geras on Minimum Utopia
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A world cured of its worst remediable deprivations and horrors is worth aiming for.… Read the rest
The ‘Faith Community Liaison Group’
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas ‘across Whitehall’. … Read the rest
Remember Hazlitt
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.… Read the rest
Newspaper articles on child abuse in Ireland
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.… Read the rest
A History of Neglect
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Paddy Doyle’s timeline of Irish Industrial Schools and failed attempts to reform them.… Read the rest
Carl Sagan on Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.… Read the rest
Joel Achenbach on Carl Sagan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.… Read the rest
John Stachel on recurrent hostility to Einstein
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Relativity has been attacked in the name of US pragmatism, German idealism, English Hegelianism, French Bergsonianism (by fellow Jew Henri Bergson!), Soviet “diamat” (dialectical materialism) and Nazi “Deutsche Physik”… Read the rest
George Scialabba on Jacoby, Bernstein and Multiculturalism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Books by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.… Read the rest
