That power corrupts? Or that subjects try to please the experimenter?
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Stupid Guy Thinks ‘Alice’ is a Girly Book
So he wanted revenge: ‘to rewrite it as a book boys would also enjoy.’
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Solution to African Food Crisis is Multifaceted
Better science education, more research, better roads, communication.
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Water and the West Bank
More science and less religious fundamentalism would be better for Israelis and Palestinians.
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Democrats Let Themselves be Hustled
The herd of independent minds demands noisy religiosity from Kerry. Why?
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NSS Says Blunkett’s Religious Law is Dangerous
National Secular Society on invitation to religious fanatics to use courts to silence critics.
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National Endowment for the Arts Survey of Reading
Literary reading is in decline, and the rate of decline is increasing.
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Timothy Garton Ash on Prospect List of Intellectuals
‘Like most British intellectuals of his generation, Karl Popper was born in Vienna.’
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Want the Feds Monitoring Universities? No?
Should ‘both sides’ of the Holocaust or slavery be taught?
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How to End ‘Honour’ Killings
Create communities where people believe there is no honour in honour killing.
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Swami Agnivesh Opposes Hindutva
‘If the BJP comes back, it will come back with a vengeance. I fear it will.’