Somewhat confused review of book on aliens as cultural manifestation.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Why Gödel Matters
He is deployed by people with antirationalist agendas to whack science.
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Gödel on the Internet
Gödel’s incompleteness theorem is invoked daily to whack people over the head.
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Are Nazism and Communism Equivalent?
“there was no one in Nazi Germany who advocated “Nazism with a human face”.’
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Slavery? What Slavery?
Factually incorrect history.
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The Amish Believe in Submission and Forgiveness
Which gives incest a lot of room to flourish.
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Oh No – Imbalance in Story on Rutgers Athletics!
What to do? Tell the instructor what to teach, of course.
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A Daily Reading List – With Attitude
Arts and Letters Daily approaches its hundredth million.
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The End of History?
The notion is the last of the utopian projects.
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Lars Svendsen’s A Philosophy of Boredom
Is boredom psychological or the result of boring shops and boring governments?
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Horowitz’s Undocumented Story Has Legs
Searchers have failed to find corroborating evidence, but story appears in newspapers.
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How Not to Explain Suicide Bombing
Eve Garrard teases apart some familiar non-explanations.
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Oliver Sacks on Francis Crick
Crick’s mind was always moving forward.
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Review of Bernard Williams on Truth
Williams effectively explains the virtues of truth telling to a non-specialist audience.
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Christopher Hitchens on Tom Paine
Wanted American Revolution to be more radical, French to be less ideological, rigid, bloodthirsty.
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Protests on Global Women’s Day
Mukhtar Mai led march in Pakistan, men in Bangladesh joined women protesting acid attacks.
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No Going Back
Fight for women’s equality that began 30 years ago will continue, and faster.
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Human Trafficking in South Africa
Molo Songololo and other NGOs work to stop the flesh trade in women and children.
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Women Challenge Traditional Status as Minors
Young woman in Swaziland gang-raped by bus conductors while spectators cheered.
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Amnesty, Oxfam Report on Guns’ Impact on Women
Women are particularly at risk of certain crimes such as family violence and rape.