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Comedy ain’t what it used to be (but don’t tell foreigners)-Richard Morrison-TimesOnline I'm not sure I totally agree with Morrison on h...

Centauri Dreams - Emerging Asia Science fiction author Gregory Benford has a post here about a recent trip through Asia. There's a pict...

Cold fusion is back at the American Chemical Society The story above about cold fusion from news@nature is interesting for what it says abou...

Stop the presses: the story Rudd tried to kill - Opinion - smh.com.au It's a remarkable day when Alan Ramsey uses his Saturday column to...

More X-rated than X Files-Arts & Entertainment-Film-TimesOnline Aw, it's so disappointing to read interviews with stars when they re...

Lies and memories: When stories read a little too good. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine Read the Slate article above about how the New Yor...

Research suggests fortified food could help resist ageing This has to be one of the oddest ideas I have ever heard: Fortifying food with spe...

White House spokesman faces new battle with cancer - International Herald Tribune Tony Snow, the Fox News host who moved to the White House ...

Like Goldilocks, mice know a bed that's 'just right' - New Scientist It seems like every day there is a study indicating that lo...

No one is willing to address the accelerating growth in the world's population | Comment | The Observer This article appeared last week,...

Angioplasty no better than drugs for pre-heart attack patients, study finds - Los Angeles Times It's pretty fascinating how a new medica...

Archbishop urges church to consider slavery reparations | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited The Archbishop of Canterbury seems well inten...

The Comment is Free section of The Guardian website is always worth checking. Today I liked this article by Francis Fukuyama about Japa...

I probably can't post for a few days. Don't forget to come back! Meanwhile, here's a very amateur video done to a 20 year old T...

I find it rather puzzling politics that Rudd should want to use income from the future fund to pay for something that, on the face of it, is...

Gold poop | The Japan Times Online This somewhat interesting article starts by examining the story behind a novelty charm from Japan (yes, a...

Here's a story about a study on the best way to get rid of warts. (Duct tape verses freezing.) As a sufferer of the occasional persist...

Reason with yourself | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited See the link above for an interesting article by Peter Singer in the Guar...

Foreign Correspondent - 20/03/2007: Russia - Hate Crimes Foreign Correspondent last night had a fascinating and disturbing account of the ri...

So, Mr. Hitchens, weren't you wrong about Iraq? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine Christopher Hitchens comes outs swinging agai...