World News Anchor, Diane Sawyer, asks physicist Stephen Hawking about the biggest mystery he’d like solved.
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Stephen Hawking on Religion: Science Will Win (6.7.10)
The good news: this is quoted verbatim from an article describing landmark scientific findings in Australia: “But I bit my tongue, and sent it off to a recognised authority, palaeontologist Peter Murray in Darwin, to see what he thought. When he confirmed that it probably was Genyornis , it was pretty exciting,” Robert says. The bad news: as quoted, the passage gives the misleading impression that someone bit off part of his tongue and asked scientists to evaluate whether it was an extinct flightless bird
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Reading and Painting
June, and the strawberry season is upon us. How I used to love it as a child: a heaped dish of berries, the large and the small, all blushing with the excitement of summer … apply sugar, mantle with cream, and the result was heavenly
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Let’s bring back the flavour to our national fruit
There are two big differences between the coalition Government and the last Labour administration. One is the approach to tackling the deficit.
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Forget football. The coalition’s game is different
A Tory prime minister, at the head of a coalition just a few weeks old, speaks directly to the people, and warns that the nation must make great sacrifices to avert calamity. “If all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, and they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able … to ride out the storm
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Cameron must address his rhetorical deficit
As Iran’s leadership prepares to dispatch a Red Crescent flotilla to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, its propaganda organs are spreading one message throughout the Muslim world: the Jewish state, branded by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as “the Zionist stain of shame”, is heading for its inevitable destruction.
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Propaganda war latest: Tehran 3 Israel 0
What can one say about the Pentecostal slap-fest that is currently going on between Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and his counterpart here in the United States (his counterpart in every form of Anglican power that is meaningful, these days) Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori? Let me make a few comments that strike me as rather obvious.
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Jefferts Schori (quietly) goes Pentecostal
This story that ran in the New York Times late last month is headlined “ In Ultrasound, Abortion Fight Has New Front .” The inclusion of the word “fight” made me think the story might include perspectives from those who support abortion as well as those who don’t. And I guess, technically, the story did
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Still just a clump of cells?
The controversial Agape Ministries Church is “not a doomsday cult ” and any claims to the contrary are “a load of rubbish”, a criminal lawyer says.
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Agape Ministries Church ‘not a doomsday cult’ – lawyer
Friday’s Detroit Free Press reported that the Canton Township, Michigan police have changed their policy and will no longer require persons being booked for arrest to remove head coverings if they are worn for genuine religious reasons. Booking photos will be taken with the person’s religious garb normally worn in public still on.
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Police Department To Take Booking Photos With Religious Headgear On