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Makeup for the birds: jiffy marker turns winged duds into studs
A little makeup on male birds can have a drastic effect on their sex lives, according to a new study. Paint some black on the chests of male barn swallows and suddenly they're losing weight, having sex, and living the high life.Hmmm...there are number of corollaries to be...South Africans take out rage on immigrants
"A wave of horrifying violence has swept the townships around Johannesburg in the past week, The Globe and Mail's Stephanie Nolen reported in an article Tuesday Xenophobic rage explodes in South Africa. At least 22 people are dead, hundreds injured and an estimated 4,000...
Paddington Bear is back 50 years on
I love Paddington Bear, and I still have all the books on tape that I used to listen to as a child to help me get to sleep. It has been 50 years since Michael Bond asked people to 'please look after this bear'. To... Obama is now unelectable
" As this blog has been predicting in Hillary's darkest days...she will be the next president and she will find a way to destroy Obama. She has done it. Obama was running on a hope and dream campaign that just... "Winter Soldiers" To Testify
Founding Father Thomas Paine spoke to the unfortunate need for ordinary soldiers to sometimes step up and take a stand for the soul of their troubled nation; these brave men he referred to as Winter Soldiers. ... Picard as Macbeth?! Beam me up!
Happy New Year, Sci-Fi/Lit Nerds (c'mon, I know I'm not the only one): the BAM in Brooklyn is presenting a modernized staging of Macbeth starring--drumroll--Patrick Stewart! I don't know about you guys, but for me... EYE WITNESSES ACCOUNT OF THE IRISH UPRISING OF 1641 TO BE PUBLISHED AS A BOOK
It ought to have been published since. It's great that it is now ben brought to light. Better late than never.The rising was sparked off by Catholic fears of an impending invasion of Ireland by anti-Catholic forces... Scotland's forgotten farmers fight for industry's future
"IT WAS a day like any other for Kelvin Pate, tending to cattle and sheep on his 350-acre farm in Scotland yesterday. But his future, and the survival of thousands of other farmers, depends upon the outcome of a crisis that has been ignored or forgotten by much of the... Senate Judiciary Chairman subpoenas Karl Rove
What on earth took the Senate so long to do this. Its about time."Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy announced Thursday he had subpoenaed White House adviser Karl Rove and his deputy. He accused them of stonewalling a widening probe into the firing of federal...Light is shed on darkest galaxies
The mystery of how the darkest galaxies in the Universe came to exist may have been solved by scientists. Dwarf spheroidals are galaxies composed almost entirely of dark matter; faint examples have been discovered orbiting the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. Scientists...The Hell I Can't! -- Supporting the Troops, not the War
"In this modern era of patriotic platitudes, it seems all too many have forgotten the reason we affix those ever-present yellow ribbons to our cars and doors and the meaning behind the meaning of the almost cliche...Phyllis Lambert's landmark birthday
They came from points as far as Italy, as inevitable as New York City and as near as Westmount - about 250 architects, academics, relatives, financiers, artists and politicos - to a former industrial space in darkest Griffintown called the Darling Foundry. The occasion was...THE LAST DAYS OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
"You're the President of the United States. Your country is locked into a war that no-one, really, anymore, believes you can win. You have met, privately, with the family members of at least one third of the men and women who have died in the war you insisted, for reasons...Which Spiritual Path do I follow?
"Kaliyuga the metal age is the darkest hour in a cosmic life cycle... the time when the society is at its lowest ebb... it is something like we are passing through a phase of time when the clock ticks 5 AM... the darkest hour of the night... In Jainism this hour is known as...
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