It isn’t every day that a dried crab in a jaunty Santa hat looks down at one as one eats. It also is not every day that one gets the chance to make pilgrimage to a place that will, one day, be hallowed ground, fer shur. Let me explain.
“Britons unconvinced on evolution,” says BBC News. A survey says that 39% of Britons think (and I use the word advisedly) that creationism or intelligent design best describes the origin and development of life. (The survey separated them into two but I can’t see why.) OK, 48% like evolution theor...
Africa Needs Bed Nets Not Advisers - UN Adviser
SENEGAL: January 25, 2006
DAKAR - Africa needs practical help such as medicine and fertilisers to beat poverty, not more advisers from rich nations, a top economist and UN adviser said on Tuesday.
Could PlanetArk have written the headline I q...
2022-01-21: I’m bringing this post in absolutely untouched just to remind myself of the foolishness that once passed for erudition on the internet. Those A-listers? Every one of the links is dead.
A bunch of A-listers have created the blog equivalent of a circle jerk. In search of the best blo...
The Human Flower Project reports that legislators in the state of Delaware “clobbered a bill permitting research with human embryos”. So far, so predictable. What seems shameful to me is that opponents of the bill used red roses to influence the law-makers. They asked opponents of research to cont...
It isn’t every day that a dried crab in a jaunty Santa hat looks down at one as one eats. It also is not every day that one gets the chance to make pilgrimage to a place that will, one day, be hallowed ground, fer shur. Let me explain.
