It’s going to go on this way only worse, experts say, as UK swelters.
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.
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Get Used To It
The time to adapt to weather extremes is now.
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Nazi Pseudoscience
Aryans in Tibet, Blavatsky’s tapestry of tosh, Himmler and the Venus of Willendorf.
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The Places Where Science Needs Interpretation
Philosophers need to know the relevant scientific facts, and scientists need to know the history of philosophy, Simon Blackburn points out.
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Bronte-Schlock
New BBC drama about the Brontes introduces new myths in place of the old.
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Poetry for the Hip
‘…less a need to communicate than a need to afflict.’
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Which Freedom?
Anatol Lieven looks at the opacity of a concept many Americans take to be transparent.
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Are Kites Dangerous or Un-Islamic?
Why do Lahore kite-flyers add ground glass to the strings?
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A Public Relations Ploy?
Can corporate social responsibility be compatible with selling tobacco?
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Nuremberg Documents Online
Harvard makes its collection of documents from the Nuremberg trials available.
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Is Martin Amis Becoming an Old Bullshitter?
‘Yellow Dog isn’t bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing. It’s not-knowing-where-to-look bad.’
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Hey, Slow Down!
More research on global warming is needed, say oil executives and their friends.
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The Tension Between Egalitarianism and Learning
Roger Scruton tells some painful truths about the costs of egalitarianism.
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Changes to Maths A Levels
Fewer options in applied maths, but still not an easy course, chief executive says.
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How’s That Again?
A professor of Moral Theology at Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross ‘clarifies’ the Vatican’s statement against homosexual unions.
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Denis Dutton Reviews Darwinian Politics
Paul Rubin looks at the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness.
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Scholar Demands Special Treatment for Catholicism
Disagreeing with the Catholic church is ‘prejudice’and ‘venom’. Because…?
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Just How Hard-wired Is It?
Are male promiscuity and female choosiness cultural or biological? Yes.
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A Skeptical Look at Thomas Kuhn
Eric Raymond sees some paradigm problems.
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Pot Calls Kettle Black
Reagan administration wrote off ‘foreign policy neophytes’ in the Labour party, adding that it did not have ‘great foreign policy depth or breadth’.