A movie full of platitudes about cultural diversity and self-esteem – the counter-Fahrenheit 911?
Category: Latest News
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Not so Fast, There, Kennewick Man
The Army Corps of Engineers is still resisting scientific study of KM.
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Chris Mooney on ‘Sound Science’
Conservatives using conflict over fish to gut the science behind Endangered Species Act.
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Which Sixties?
Hoggart’s? Benn’s? Wesker’s?
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Motion on Middlebrook on Hughes
Compromised by lack of proper interest in the poems as such.
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Kennewick Man Case May be Over
Tribes have decided not to appeal to Supreme Court, so KM will not be reburied.
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Martha Nussbaum Interview
Communitarianism is rooted in idea of homogeneous groups defined as ‘normal’ – shame for the others.
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Carlin Romano on Literary Reading
Could newspapers and their cultural coverage have an influence?
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Multiculti for the Old South
So this is where blather about identity and diversity gets you.
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Robert Owen Discovered the Moa
Reconstructed iguanadon & archaeopteryx, and disagreed with Darwin.
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Hansard Report on Blogging
New research shows that blogging can increase transparency and accessibility of parliamentarians.
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Who Does the Dying in Wars Against Tyrants?
And who does the dying if the tyrants stay? Eve Garrard looks at the difficulty.
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Paul Foot
The Guardian obituary.
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Animal Research
Protests and vandalism make research using animals difficult.
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Insane People Run Across US
Ultra athletes run ultra far in ultra events thus demonstrating ultra lunacy.
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‘What is not possible is not to choose’
Julian Baggini on the Kanto-Sartrean background of political emphasis on autonomy.
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US Witholds Funds From UN Population Agency
Lack of evidence no bar to decision that will cost lives.
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No Other Nation Has Witheld Funds
The Netherlands and others have increased donations to compensate for US reduction of funds.
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US Scientists Forbidden to Attend AIDS Conference
‘It is anti-intellectual and it is interfering with scientists and the scientific process’
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Royals Have Reason to Fear Modernity
Change is hazardous for the next incumbent of an office built on mystical tradition and continuity.