One reaction to global warming stories, as I wrote earlier ('Sex and the SUV' ), is a strident defense of the SUV as representing freedom of choice. T...
Here is a question from a frustrated Alabama teacher (a tautology?)- 'But but but...if men are descended from monkeys, why don't men have tails? Get m...
In May George Bush met with Australian leader John Howard, who in turn later met with Stephen Harper in Canada. By coincidence all three extremely con...
There are so many other pressures on the environment, that a pressure that arises only from the egos of a few men who have not grown up is one we could do without.
A few years ago in America one of those immensely brave young girls who care passionately about trees climbed down from the giant Redwood in which she...
Here is a reader's response to one of my fundy-bashing blogs, and it makes an appeal for tolerance and respect that is well thought out, well-intentio...
In societies of hunters and gatherers (native Americans, Australian Aborigines and many others, present and recent past and distant past) scientists w...
My previous post, 'sham beliefs' was stimulated by a readers response to an earlier post ('Sex and the SUV') in which a friend of a poster, when warne...
It is the cry of frustration of the modern citizen overwhelmed by the huge volume of information in modern society, and the ever increasing volume of ...
In the late 1960s the Chinese government went to war against its educated people - the intellectuals, teachers, scientists, artists - in the "cultural...
