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It’s going to go on this way only worse, experts say, as UK swelters.

The time to adapt to weather extremes is now.

Aryans in Tibet, Blavatsky’s tapestry of tosh, Himmler and the Venus of Willendorf.

Philosophers need to know the relevant scientific facts, and scientists need to know the history of philosophy, Simon Blackburn points out.

New BBC drama about the Brontes introduces new myths in place of the old.

Harvard makes its collection of documents from the Nuremberg trials available.

‘…less a need to communicate than a need to afflict.’

Anatol Lieven looks at the opacity of a concept many Americans take to be transparent.

Why do Lahore kite-flyers add ground glass to the strings?

Can corporate social responsibility be compatible with selling tobacco?

‘Yellow Dog isn’t bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing. It’s not-knowing-where-to-look bad.’

More research on global warming is needed, say oil executives and their friends.

Roger Scruton tells some painful truths about the costs of egalitarianism.

Fewer options in applied maths, but still not an easy course, chief executive says.

A professor of Moral Theology at Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross ‘clarifies’ the Vatican’s statement against homosexual unions.

Paul Rubin looks at the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness.

Disagreeing with the Catholic church is ‘prejudice’and ‘venom’. Because…?

Are male promiscuity and female choosiness cultural or biological? Yes.

Eric Raymond sees some paradigm problems.

Reagan administration wrote off ‘foreign policy neophytes’ in the Labour party, adding that it did not have ‘great foreign policy depth or breadth’.