Month: April 2010

Natalie Angier unimpressed by Bush’s assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks Vapo Rub for the national charley horse.

Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet.

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.

It is forbidden to work as a teacher under the current puppet regime. Teachers must recieve a warning; next time, a beating; next, death.

Iran’s most prominent political dissident talks to the philosopher.

Chills the blood.

The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.

Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.

Appendix F – a must read.

A world cured of its worst remediable deprivations and horrors is worth aiming for.

A ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas ‘across Whitehall’.

Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.

Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.

Paddy Doyle’s timeline of Irish Industrial Schools and failed attempts to reform them.

On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.

We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.

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”

Debate human nature.

Books by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.