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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Stick a Hawk on Your Window
Window glass can be fatal for birds.
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Odd That Creationists Don’t Mention Tumors
Tumors are a miracle of natural complexity – surely a case of Intelligent Design? No?
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Is Muslim Anti-Semitism a Taboo Subject?
And if so, why?
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Cool Dude Watches ‘Sex and the City’
‘the underlying essentialist myths of city women as vampiric succubi’
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Geza Vermes on Gibson’s Movie
Gratutitously brutal, historically wrong, and likely to inspire judeophobia. Other than that, it’s swell.
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Peppered Moths at LSE
Darwin Day celebrated with an impassioned denunciation of moth-bothering Darwin-baiters.
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Whose Enlightenment?
Ideas about fallibility, religion, multiculturalism, parochialism divide Europe and the US.
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Hope and Fantasy Impeded Clear Thinking
Interventions amount to a promise, Michael Ignatieff says.
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Teacher Cleared of Assault in Hijab Case
Head of science at Bretton Woods School in Peterborough cleared by unanimous verdict.
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In Madrid
‘Madrid knew it was witnessing the biggest mass-protest in Spanish history.’
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Jayson Blair Rappels Down Mount Excuse
‘this sloppy, padded and dishonest work only adds to his growing word count of lies.’
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Hamlet: ‘This World Sucks, KnowhatI’msayin?’
Shakespeare thou art translated.
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Biography: Fact, Fiction, and How to Tell
Perhaps group biographies get at more of the truth than individual ones do.
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Teddy Adorno and Britney Spears
The Frankfurt School encounters the bare midriff.
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Bulging Eyes in Cartoons Mean What?!
Semioticians look at cartoons and discover what everyone already knows.
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Somalia Observes International Women’s Day
A campaign against Female Genital Mutilation has been launched throughout Somalia.
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A World More Attractive
Encyclopedia, library, news magazines, book reviews, Octavio Paz, Hegel.
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Confusion Over Fusion
Scientists fall out over fusion – again.
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Islamism and Democracy
Democracy is one thing, rights are another.