The new fossils, from two separate locations, are about 10 million years older than Archaeopteryx.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Fossils Fulfill an Evolutionary Prediction
‘Feathered dinosaurs probably continued to exist after one of their kin gave rise to birds’ – and sure enough!
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Global Warming and Anti-science
Modern anti-science is most skilfully executed by a small subset of lobbyists and PR agencies.
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Dwight Furrow on ‘Values Voters’
They claim to adhere to a culture of life – except for Armageddon of course.
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Simon Schama on Ahmadinejad
Not the least repellent aspect of his reiteration that the Holocaust was a lie, was the muffled response.
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Girl’s Refusal to Be Child Bride Inspires India
She refused to be married off and stayed in school instead; now other girls in the village are doing the same.
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UN Says ‘Witch’ Killings Are on the Rise
Murder and persecution of women and children accused of being witches is spreading globally.
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Iran: Mannequins Must Wear Hijab
Next stop, the twilight zone.
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Mo Has Been Reading Tariq Ramadan
He executes the steps gracefully.
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Christian Legal Centre Making Trouble
The CLC claims that Lord Phillips allowed his personal views to colour his judgement in the Purdy case.
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Death Threats for Public Eating During Ramadan
Moroccan campaigning to change law against eating in public during Ramadan says he got 100 death threats.
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Education Based Only on Reason is Incomplete
Says the archbishop. ‘When theologians said that God was rational, they meant that he was consistent with himself.’
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Ahmedinejad, Lion of Islam, Gives a Squeak
He scolded Bush over Guantanamo, but Iran’s prisons are not a beacon of justice.
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Amnesty’s Sierra Leone Blog
‘Irene asked the crowd to raise their hands if they had lost a woman to maternal mortality and there was a sea of hands.’
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Irina Bokova Voted New Head of UNESCO
Faruq Hosni not.
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Loser Condemns UNESCO Vote
Zionists, north and south, politicized, Jewish pressure, newspapers.
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BBC Looks Into Far-right Extremism
Quotes Edmund Standing, author of The BNP and The Online Fascist Network.
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Doctors Told Her She Would Lose Her Eyesight
She sought an abortion, but she was refused, and a Catholic magazine compared her to a child killer.
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Sierre Leone: High Rate of Maternal Mortality
Thousands of women bleed to death after giving birth. Most die in their homes. Some die on the way to hospital.
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Human Rights Emergency in Sierra Leone
Under half of deliveries are attended by a skilled birth attendant; under 1 in 5 are carried out in health facilities.