Since Du’a’s murder, at least 12 women have been murdered in the name of ‘honour’ in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Moscow Gay Rights Demo Assaulted
Right-wing and Orthodox thugs attacked demonstrators. Police busted gays, left attackers alone.
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Global Campaign to Fight Gender Inequality
‘Hope the Because I am a Girl campaign will create the focus and outrage needed to force change.’
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What’s Entertainment?
Beach novels? Hmm. High school humiliations, Canadian comedies, cultural commentary?
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Newsflash: Humanist Rags on Atheists
Vehement, strident, fundamentalist, dogmatic, negative, Greg Epstein.
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Mo Rejoices at Iran’s Technological Prowess
A convincing rebuttal to those who say the Islamic world has been technologically moribund for centuries.
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Tom Flynn on Addiction to the Big M
Is it frightening to think there is no Meaning in life, only the plural meanings we create for ourselves?
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Vernon Interviews Daniel Dennett
‘The philosophers I pay attention to are all, in one way or another, paying close professional attention to other disciplines.’
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Another Think Coming
‘The salty question of how we should live seems to have given way to the dry matter of what we think.’
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Steal From The Simpsons, not Henry James
What is wrong with the modern literary novel? ‘Why is it so anxious? Why is it so bloody boring?’
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The Traveler’s Dilemma
When playing this game, people reject the rational choice; by acting illogically, they reap a larger reward.
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Martha Nussbaum on the Gujarat Massacre
What has been happening in India is a serious threat to the future of democracy in the world.
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Frank Furedi on the Misery Memoir Market
The reader is not left with a feeling of inspiration, but rather with an urge to take a shower.
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BBC Prepares Reply to Complaints in Advance
Dear Blank, I’m sorry if you believe the programme lacked the hard evidence you wanted to see.
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CPJ Special Report on Anna Politkovskaya
Novaya’s coverage of social and political issues has won it devoted readers and passionate enemies.
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Creation ‘Museum’ ‘Challenging’ Science
‘A new museum in Northern Kentucky promotes a religious perspective on geology.’
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Eve, Adam, and Dinosaurs Together at Last
Fossils, the museum ‘teaches,’ are no older than ‘Noah’s flood’; in fact dinosaurs were on ‘the ark.’
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The Theist Fandango
Redefine god as anything and everything, then wonder how atheists can fail to have ‘faith.’
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Isaacson Keeps Repeating Einstein’s Wife Error
‘She served as a sounding board for his scientific ideas and helped to check the math in his papers.’
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Is RE Education or Evangelism?
Parents are alarmed at the increasingly evangelical nature of RE in some schools.