The imaging data feel all sciencey, but conjurers would cite misdirection.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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George Felis Invites Atheists to Come Out
Invisibility has its benefits, perhaps, but the costs are far greater.
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Theorising the International After the Subject
How does a post-human condition alter the relationship between self and other, inside and outside?
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Ignoring the UN Meeting on the Status of Women
Most of the people there represent NGOs that work for women’s empowerment around the world.
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Culture Blocks Women’s Participation in Politics
Half the world’s population remains excluded from decision-making along gender lines.
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Peter Tatchell on Their Multiculturalism and Ours
Misogyny and homophobia tolerated in the name of ‘maintaining harmonious community relations.’
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University of Leeds Denies Censorship Charge
University said it cancelled a lecture on ‘Islamic anti-semitism’ on security grounds.
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Three Women’s Rights Defenders Still Locked Up
Shadi Sadr, Mahbubeh Abbasgholizadeh, and Jila Baniyaghoub are still in ward 209 of Evin Prison.
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David Thompson on Fallibility and Open Discussion
As if the solution to stupidity is to inhibit public discourse.
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Goldhagen on the Humiliation Myth
Why does humiliation lead to such disproportional will to violence and slaughter?
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Secularization is Linked to Safety and Prosperity
Growing up in societies in which survival is uncertain is conducive to a strong emphasis on religion.
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Beaten but Unbowed Tsvangirai Urges Defiance
Says the beating he received at the hands of police should be an ‘inspiration’ for the struggle.
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Scott McLemee on Baudrillard
Everyone agrees he was a major postmodernist thinker, without defining that.
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Does This Child ‘Act Smart’?
Yes? Horrors! Give it Ritalin!
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Philosopher Charles Taylor Wins Templeton Prize
‘The deafness of many philosophers, social scientists and historians to the spiritual dimension can be remarkable.’
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Academics Typically Engage in Coterie Writing
‘It is neither necessary nor desirable to dumb our projects down when writing for a general audience.’
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Normblog Writer’s Choice
Nerd on Jane Austen’s Emma.
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M F Burnyeat on Pythagoras
The more arbitrary the discipline, the more it works to reinforce belief in the cause.
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A C Grayling on Falling Short of Perfection
In a sin culture even the suspicion of hypocrisy in the messenger is enough to harm the message.
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Maybe the Physicists Have it Backwards
Maybe the world is the product of one aspect of biology, the mind, and not the other way around.