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The United Kingdom's Government Boots Intelligent Design Back Into "Religious" Margins:  Not Science, Not Likely To Be Science
by Lucy Sherriff (www.theregister.co.uk)
Monday, June 25th, 2007

The government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has ( Read more... )

Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'
Jun 8, 2007 9:03 pm US/Pacific
Hank Plante, CBS 5

BERKELEY - A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex ( Read more... )

"Paula Zahn on CNN's Now hosted a discussion about atheists with 3 panel members.  I find it funny that Paula Zahn finds it necessary to explain what an atheist is at the very beginning of the video.  What ensued was a bigoted, uniformed trashing of atheists.  Imagine replacing the word atheist in the discussion with "Jew" or "woman" instead.  Do ( Read more... )

    As a follow-up to my response to the vertical farming story, I present these:

Scientists Manage To Turn Sugar Into Fuel
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor, The Telegraph

The Greenest Green Fuel
Looking for a clean fuel that grows anywhere, needs only sunlight and water, and could produce enough oil to free the U.S. from its petroleum addiction? ( Read more... )

    The cover story of the recent issue of The Colorado Springs Independent has a relatively-unbiased article about the child-free lifestyle.  It's a bit of a surprise, since the publication is American.  The title links to the article.  Full text of the article (with corrections made to the spelling mistakes common in American publications) is ( Read more... )

Texas:  where due process is ignored in favour of lynching.

An angry Texas crowd has beaten and killed a 40-year-old car passenger after a driver injured a young girl near the site of a busy local festival...
(from BBC.co.uk, Wednesday, 20 June 2007)

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Does What Happens In The FaceBook Stay In The FaceBook?

A visual presentation by Vishal Agarwala.

Passed on to me by
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    It's about ten minutes to seven, and I'm still up.  No ones' on MSN.  But I do have some interesting things in my e-mail this morning.

Vertical Farming In The Big Apple
By Jeremy Cooke, BBC News, New York

Downtown Manhattan is hardly a place you would associate with agriculture. Rather, with its countless restaurants, cafes, shops and ( Read more... )

Rise Of The New Atheists
An increasingly outspoken community of atheists and agnostics is getting fed up with being marginalized, ignored and insulted.

By Ronald Aronson, The Nation
(also posted to AlterNet)
June 16, 2007

What began with publisher W.W. Norton taking a chance on a gutsy, hyperbolic and idiosyncratic attack on religion by a ( Read more... )