Wading Through Treacle

Here's a good answer to Creationists: "dogs!" Why? They clearly evolved from a common ancestor, we did it ourselves through ...

According to American vets from Iraq, interviewed on BBC's Newsnight last night, US troops in the Sunni North were regularly driving aro...

A tall, elegant woman speaking into her mobile phone. "I'm worried about Gucci." "Yes, they're special cats, a rare b...

"The martian anthropologist" is a mythical entity appealed to in the social sciences to achieve distance from human prejudices. If...

Today's Economist (11th March 2006) makes the point that we should avoid knee-jerk reactions when it comes to regulating the Internet to...

I took my car into the local garage today - for the last week the front passenger window has not been working. Was the motor burned out or w...

Clare saw a bird die this morning. The Chaffinch flew down from the top of the garage, after a freezing cold night. About a foot off the gra...

We went to see 'Munich' last night - Steven Spielberg's movie about an Israeli vengeance squad tasked with assassinating those ...

Topical item: telescopes capable of resolving earth-like planets around other star systems. According to the current New Scientist , creatin...

I'm 55 and increasingly, the senior clients I deal with are younger than I am. People in their fifties and sixties complain of age discr...