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Technology Review: Reprogrammed Stem Cells Work on Parkinson's Further confirmation in this story that embryonic stem cells may be unnec...

The Tablet reports that: Six previously unknown sermons of St Augustine of Hippo have been discovered at Erfurt University in central Germa...

Limited nuclear war would damage ozone layer Pretty bad, it would seem: Mills and colleagues found that a regional nuclear war in South Asia...

Genetics and lung cancer | Smoking out the smoking gene | Economist.com I'll step on Harry Clarke's territory now and link to an int...

On 3 April, I posted about an article in Nature which contained some strong criticism of the forecasts of the IPCC as being overly optimist...

Iran Begins Installing More Centrifuges - New York Times

Last night I slept the deep sleep of the just-returned-from-camping. Nothing makes you appreciate your own bed more than a couple of nights...

Before I go away for the weekend, I thought I would point out these developments. At last, at least one physicists' blog goes into a l...

The longer Good King Kevin stays overseas, the more of a goose he looks. (The follow up video of how he reacted when questioned about it ...

Unleashed: The young and the restless I don't know that Bob Ellis was being entirely serious in his latest "Unleashed" column....

Melting ice caps may trigger more volcanic eruptions The story is about Iceland. The speculation is that decreasing ice cover there will le...

As I predicted , the great majority of commentary on the legal action concerning the Large Hadron Collider is snarky. Phil at Bad Astronomy...

Climate challenge underestimated? : Nature News This looks like a really important story on the economics of climate change. My suspicion h...

In Baghdad, Iraqis take their humor extra dark - International Herald Tribune According to this story, Iraqis still enjoy a good April Fool&...

Kidney Extracted Through The Vagina, First Time In Europe, Second In World

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | N Korea hits out at South leader You can see more of the North's rant at the North Korean news agency here. Me...

Hamas's harsh rhetoric against the Jews - International Herald Tribune As this article notes, the outright incitement of young Palestini...

Paddy Hitler, Max Mosley and the dilemma of Nazi children This is a fascinating summary of what various "Nazi children" went on to...

Mall mania grips city-Patna-Cities-The Times of India Maybe I am just easily amused, but here's the introductory paragraph from the abov...

Inside the mind of the Archbishop of Canterbury David Bentley Hart TLS This is a review of a collection of theological essays by the Archbis...