Tuscan retreat’s therapeutic wellness programme includes detoxifying powder to cleanse the body and painful toxin-eliminating Marma massage.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Thailand: woo goes modern
“Spirit houses” are now being built with modern construction materials like ceramics, glass and granite panels.
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Pakistan: mullahs on strike against “blasphemy” reform
Under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, anyone found guilty of “insulting Islam” faces the death penalty.
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Israel: some question benefits for Torah study
More than 60% of haredi men don’t work, ditto more than 50% of haredi women. Other Israelis are getting restive.
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Remembering Denis Dutton
The lesson on display every day at ALD is that one can be precise and brisk, and nuanced and weird, at the same time.
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Women are trafficked into marriage in India
Shafiqur Rahman Khan is a gender rights activist and columnist; his organization helps rescue trafficked women.
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Dickens’s Xmas Carol is his protest against Xmas
Eric MacDonald does a close reading.
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Apathy about human rights is deadly
Lauryn Oates points out that tyrannies are just as lethal and sorrowful as earthquakes and tornadoes.
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Ashtiani’s fate is still unclear
Her lawyer has been forced out of the country.
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Most influential female atheist of 2010 poll
Second annual blaghag poll. It is an Honor Just to be Nominated. It’s an honor to get ten votes, too, chiz chiz.
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There’s plenty of time for evolution
Jerry Coyne on a new paper that shows mathematically that simultaneous substitution is much much faster than “serial” substitution.
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Celebrities and Science 2010 [pdf]
Detox, the Master Cleanse, magnets, Power Balance bracelets, charcoal.
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Denis Dutton 1944-2010
Bad news.
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Five suspected Islamist militants arrested
The four held in Denmark planned to enter the building housing the Jyllands-Posten and “kill as many of the people present as possible”.
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Police arrest 5 in plot against Jyllands-Posten
The Danish newspaper and those connected with the publication of the Muhammed cartoons have been regular targets of violence.
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Katha Pollitt’s hero of 2010: Shirley Sherrod
What does it say about the US that a hack like Breitbart can destroy a decades-long career in one day?
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Katha Pollitt on Julian Assange
The furor over the rape allegations against Julian Assange reveal that when it comes to rape, the left still doesn’t get it.
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US Conference of Catholic Bishops backs Olmsted
Nothing can justify a direct abortion. No circumstance whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the Law of God.
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“Catholic hospitals fight to stay pro-life”
Pro-life? A policy that would let both a woman and a fetus die when the woman could be saved?
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Jesus and Mo on obviously intelligent design
God created a perfect environment for humans; the banana proves it.