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I've come back from magic. Transported to a world, parallel to ours where giant mechanical elephants, belly filled with dignitaries, roam the centre of a city very similar to London. Spaceships that have travelled from afar crash into tarmac, and...
Having always romantisised the Hymenoptera (the venerable social insects), and anthropomorphised their wonderful matriarchal feminism, the mysteries of how they make their men has always fascinated. As I learnt a long time ago, boys come from eggs without needing sperm,...
Beautiful. More than half a million people demonstrated against H.R. 4437 in Los Angeles recently. H.R. 4437, aka "The Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005", is a sadly hysterical bigoted bill that makes small immigration...
Most people who try to commit suicide fail (though I doubt it is a high as the 90% value that has been suggested). And sadly, a substantial number of those will suffer the side effects of the unsuccesful attempt, as...
The insectophile in me is very excited that the first festival celebrating, to quote: ... appreciation of “insects in art and the art of being an insect”, the Pestival aims to create positive PR for this 400-million-year-old, highly evolved taxon...
Igor is extirpated, and the hefty fabric of reality sighs briefly. Yet his creases, delicate but sharp, remain. Let us have some fun and read Igor's obituaries. Let us compare them and then categorise them: Independent gushes at celebrity...
So, though it it now obviously some kind of liberal sport, this is nevertheless a funny critique of "educational" toys with a twist... Baby Bush Toys | Simple Products for Simple Minds...
As once more in the cyclical war of attrition between creationists and scientists, evolution is yet again being grilled over hot coals. The following article published in evolution is a fairly straight response and guide to the current evo-criticism: PERSPECTIVE:...
I had never concieved of it, yet with the advent of anæsthesia, there came a resistance to the utility of it for surgical interventions! Before the advent of anaesthesia, medical surgery was a terrifying prospect. Its victims could suffer indescribable...
The best web browser around, Opera, have now made their new version V8.5 free of Ad banners. It doesn't effect me as a (was) licenced user, but for all those who hesitated to try Opera because of the Ad's in...
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