Movie claims to be about quantum physics but is complete bollocks.
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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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In Our Time Does ‘Greatest Philosopher’ Poll
Plato? Kant? Alain de Botton? Nominate, vote.
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Edward Skidelsky Reviews Simon Blackburn
Truth, reason, objectivity survive the demolition work of Nietzsche and James.
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Republicans Move to Ban Women From Combat Support
Women are too distracting.
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Anxious Men Wonder
Is Army stealthily violating ban on women in combat?
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Interview in the Guardian
Condition of women in Muslim communities an intractable problem which liberals and multiculturalists refused to address.
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Charges of Religious Indoctrination at Air Force Academy
Fliers passed out in dining hall advertising the movie ‘The Passion of the Christ.’
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B&W Speaks [audio - starts 34 minutes in]
ABC’s Late Night’s Phillip Adams chats with JS and OB about Dictionary.
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Mathematics not Platonic but Communal
Some proofs are so long that mathematicians give up and agree to agree.
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Russell Jacoby on Utopianism
Blueprint utopianism is no good, but the iconoclastic kind is another matter.
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History is Making a Surreal Comeback
The search for truth remains a work in progress.
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Church and its Leader Free of Error on Morality
Which makes it difficult to apologize to, say, Jews. Oh well.
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Cronyism in Academic Poetry?! Surely Not!
Foetry exposes the violent, blood-spattered world of poetry contests.
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Just Pointing to Environmental Damage Not Enough
There is both a cost and a benefit and you have to weigh them up.
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Public Money to Teach People to Talk to the Dead
‘Spiritualist’ group qualifies because it celebrates diversity.
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Animal Rights Disgrace
Parkinson’s sufferer called ‘Nazi.’
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Irshad Manji Calls for Muslim Think Tank
Author wants changes in Islam’s stance on issues such as human rights.
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A Little Sarcasm on ID
Science that doesn’t teach his religious beliefs is biased against his religious beliefs. Yeah right.
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Quadratic Equations Rock
Analytical thought process in maths is a skill that will empower anyone.
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History Matters, and That Includes Movie History
Epic films can include epic inaccuracies, historians point out.