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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Illness as Identity
Losing a leg and half your brain cells can be an opportunity to learn…
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Unanswered Questions in George Sand Biography
What were the origins of Sand’s rebellion and her ambition as a writer?
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Academic Freedom? Wozzat?
Graham Larkin of Stanford and Bill Morrow of California legislature debate.
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Sanity Has Drama Enough
Brenda Maddox reads Adam Phillips and considers Freud.
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Tom DeLay’s Flexible Standard
No fiery rhetoric as congressman joined family consensus to let his father die.
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Michael Shermer on the Fossil Fallacy
Creationists’ demand for fossils of ‘missing links’ reveals deep misunderstanding of science.
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Genuine Trauma and Physiological Response
But the stimulus was still fantasy.
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Muslim Brotherhood Demo Blocked in Cairo
Police arrested some 50 members around the country on Saturday.
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Egypt Arrests Muslim Brotherhood Members
MB pledged to use peaceful democratic means to establish an Islamic state.
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Most Tsunami Dead Were Women, Oxfam Says
Reports of rapes, harassment and forced marriages from emergency camps.
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Malaysia to Curb ‘Moral Policing’
Human rights, labour and women’s groups called on government to restrain state Islamic departments.
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Human Rights Advisor to Turkish PM Resigns
Yavuz Onen has bitterly criticised attitude of Turkish government on human rights.
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Jesus Candle Burns Elderly Woman’s Apartment
Pictures, heart medicine gone, but flag remains. A miracle.
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Polly Toynbee on the Elusive Easy Death
Dying people beg for a quick injection, in vain.
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Clifford Geertz on Very Bad News
Jared Diamond and Richard Posner on collapse and catastrophe.
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His Books Must Be Kept at a Distance
Ultra-Orthodox rabbi tries to reconcile science and the Torah, is denounced for his pains.
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Supreme Court Rejects Schiavo Appeal
There is no legal case, says Reagan solicitor general.
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Jeb Bush Adoption Hopes Dashed
Florida judge rejects governor’s bid to become Schiavo’s legal guardian.
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Arson at Mosque ‘Was Meant to Be’
Why were suspects arrested then?