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Here she comes: Saudi Arabia's Miss Beautiful Morals Extracts from the story: ...at Saudi Arabia's only beauty pageant, the judges d...

Fury at exhibit of corpses having sex (It's taken a long time for Europe to start objecting to the use of corpses as entertainment, but...

Thought Experiments : The Blog: Not Breakfast in America Bryan Appleyard has a funny grumble here about American breakfasts, but I think his...

Ocean carbon: A dent in the iron hypothesis Quite a lengthy explanation here of recent research into what happened in a couple of experiment...

John Mattick - ABC Brisbane (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Richard Fidler does pretty good interviews, and I caught most of this one ...

I noted below how John Quiggin thinks the amended Rudd Emissions Trading Scheme should be supported by the Greens. The very Green David Spra...

Kabul Journal - In Afghanistan, Drugs Hollow Out Lives in Shell of Cultural Center - NYTimes.com Now that I think of it, there never seems t...

Until recently, I was never keen on the Tim Lambert (or whoever coined it) term "The Australian's War on Science" (referring t...

* Back in 2006, I posted about some doubts about the effectiveness of widespread flu vaccination. Now, Norman Swan on the Health Report ha...

Birth control for men in one injection - Science, News - The Independent From the report: Researchers at the National Research for Family Pl...

Film - Memos to Hollywood - NYTimes.com A few days ago, the New York Times movie critics (AO Scott and Manohola Dargis) had an article which...

Annabel Crabb Annabel Crabb makes a welcome return to Fairfax today with the above witty column on Rudd delaying the ETS. I liked this sect...

Last night's dreams included this great jumble (sources are noted): I was in Malaysia (talk yesterday of a relative living there) on a ...

Eels in crisis after 95% decline in last 25 years | Environment | The Guardian I wonder if Australian eels are still abundant: I know I saw ...

Gulfnews: Young Saudi men go wild over notorious blue pill Riyadh: The kingdom has been gripped with a craze for erectile-dysfunction medica...

The global warming sites will be busy over the next few days digesting a couple of new papers in Nature talking about the huge reduction in...

Ack! I did a post today at LP suggesting people could search my blog for my ocean acidification posts. Now that I've tried that myself...

Think twice before you go wireless - Digital Life - smh.com.au I never use free wireless networks, but those netbooks look terribly cute, an...

Krystian Zimerman's shocking Disney Hall debut A Polish pianist gets all political before his concert in the USA: Before playing the fin...

Little Green Footballs - Bad Craziness Watch: Glenn Beck Fans and Swine Flu Conspiracies Oh dear. I don't read LGF regularly enough to ...