"'I can see dinosaurs from my back porch' * Track this topic * Print story * Post comment Palin-tology and the threat to science teaching By George Smith, Dick Destiny • Get more from this author Posted in Government, 26th September 2008 12:29 GMT GOP Veep...
Environmentalists taking an anti-scientific stance to modern agriculture and in particular to GM crop use are causing hunger in Africa according to Sir David King - the UK government's former chief scientist. This...
" By March or April 2008, the 6000 gold, silver and bronze medals for Beijing 2008 were ready. China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation in Shanghai, China, was the maker of the medals. /// The raw materials...
M15, the British equivalent of the CIA, has instituted a new policy of actively seeking gay men and women as new recruits. The agency says its part of a wider mission to attract more diverse recruits from throughout society rather than just selecting people from Oxford or...
This is impossibly funny. "Bill Clinton made a plea yesterday for a new emphasis on monogamy as a key element in the battle against AIDS. The former U.S. president, not noted for his ability to keep his own marriage vows, said it was very important to change people's...
" ScienceDaily (July 7, 2008) — Although younger people are becoming more positive towards surrogate mothers, current day attitudes to surrogacy are still broadly negative, a scientist will tell the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorHey, welcome to the Club, none of us want to get old, but you know, if appearances are all that matters, Gays certainly don't have a monopoly on shallowness. They say from...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorHomo on the Range, where the Deer and the Antelope play seems to be a problem for this Oil and Cowboy town.A Gay presence is visible and seems to be viable as "June is Gay...
Jay Rosen pointed me to a piece by Amy Gahran. Is the newsroom its own worst enemy?"Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work....
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"Scored yet?' That was the first question from several young adventurers crowded around a table at a bar in Lhasa, Tibet's colourful capital city. Between sips of yak butter tea, they trade jokes and swap tales about their latest sexual encounters. These twentysomethings on...
It turns out that strong womyn are babes:"Busting stereotypes that peg feminists as ugly lesbians, a new study shows that having a feminist partner is linked with healthier, more romantic heterosexual relationships.
The study, published online this week in the journal Sex...
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I can see how lifestyle-tourists would be interested in a site like the one described below, but there are some things that a virtual experience just cannot provide. Using a more universal example, how would you go...
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"Financial independence is the single most important issue in the lives of women in Ireland today, according to the findings of an Irish Times/Behaviour & Attitudes social poll.
A total of 65 per cent of women rank financial independence as a very important item in their...
"Talking therapies, by which people learn to change their attitudes towards illness, can help to relieve chronic conditions such as diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), scientists said yesterday.
Research suggests that cognitive behavioural therapy, a technique by...
"WASHINGTON — White House political adviser Karl Rove said Sunday he sees encouraging signs for the GOP in the public's strong negative opinions of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and...
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