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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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What is History For?
Should students be learning vocational skills at the expense of substantive history?
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Bubble-Bath for the Soul
Seven Habits, Fifth Discipline, Timeless Mind, Chicken Soup – is there no end to the bilge?
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Conflict Between Solidarity and Diversity
Progressives want both but they’re not entirely compatible.
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Shakespeare Test Dropped
More than half the marks could be awarded without students having to read any Shakespeare.
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Flawed Theory Leads to False Convictions
Ministers were warned about Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy in 1996.
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Review of Philosophy of Science Today
Astronomers study stars, philosophers of science study astronomers.
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Integrated, Redundant Approach
US National Academy of Sciences on best way to confine genetically engineered organisms.
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History is Confusing
Evidence conflicts, minds change, memory errs, wishes interfere.
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History is Difficult
Who lied, which one vacillated, who shed crocodile tears over Vietnam?
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Nature is Nice – Until it Eats You
How thrilling to see a lion in the local park…
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Top Ten Books for Orwell-readers
D.J. Taylor’s choices include Gissing’s New Grub Street
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Wonderfully Unsettles the Mind
Hesperus Press publishes minor works by major authors.
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Brief Constructed Response
Or paragraph, in the vernacular. Eduspeak jargon is Fun Happy Talk.
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‘Cowboy Cloners’ Should be Outlawed
Head of Royal Society and others appeal to media not to publicize claims.
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What Accounts for Cheating?
Rational choice? Emotions? Values? Winner-take-all economies?
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National Book Critics Circle Nominations
Scott McLemee receives Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
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Fairy Tales Equate Beauty with Goodness
Not a news flash, but worth pointing out all the same.
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Showalter on Eagleton
Theory and nontheory. Nontheory? You know, poems, stories, plays.
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US v WHO on Sugar and Obesity
US accused of diluting dietary advice to please sugar lobby.