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I see this evening that the French National Assembly (led by the Socialist Party) has "endorsed" a law to deal with prostitution ...

Continued global warming after CO2 emissions stoppage : Nature Climate Change  The depressing course of the recent meeting hoping to get s...

Study shows moms may pass effects of stress to offspring via vaginal bacteria and placenta I had a post up recently about how vaginal birt...

About the only thing The Australian is good for these days is the occasional bit of insider gossip from Niki Savva about unhappiness within ...

BBC News - The country where exorcisms are on the rise An interesting article about how the Mexican Catholic Church is doing many more exo...

Evangelii Gaudium: Pope Francis vs libertarian economics. One of the creepiest combinations on the right of US politics is the mix of Cath...

I feel a need to make this observation:   after using it for (what?) a couple of months now, and giving yself time to try to used to it, the...

Exhuming Lee Harvey Oswald: JFK’s killer’s corpse was raised based on a conspiracy theory. OK, maybe one last anti-conspiracy post about t...

Russian resurrection | TLS Quite an interesting book review here on the work of Nikolai Fyodorov in Russia, who seems to be credited with ...

I am surprised that anyone can get excited about the fact that a Governor General with a short time remaining in the job said she was pro Re...

Man survives after car struck by lightning in Newcastle: video If ever there was proof needed that the inside of a car is a pretty safe pl...

Last week, as I observed elsewhere on the internet, I immediately thought that Tony Abbott's response to the Indonesian phone tapping st...

It's good to see the 50th anniversary of CS Lewis' death is also being widely remembered, and his legacy analysed. There's an ...

For Philippa.   The rest of you can ignore it.

That Time Jules Verne Caused a UFO Scare When I was a child, my local Council library carried quite a few Jules Verne novels, and I used t...

Mystery humans spiced up ancients’ sex lives  I don't really try to keep up with human evolution news:  it seems to change too often o...

John F. Kennedy conspiracy theories debunked: Why the magic bullet and grassy knoll don’t make sense. I was impressed by the documentary o...

The FBI files on being and nothingness The FBI under J Edgar Hoover must have been a fun place to work: The FBI had been keeping an eye ...

Hola – free program lets you enjoy any website from any country [Freeware] | The Red Ferret Journal ...but I haven't tried it yet. U...

Chilly lab mice skew cancer studies  International guidelines call for laboratory mice to be kept at room temperature. Yet the rodents fi...