Doesn’t God want us to create the “God particle”?

20 October 2009
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A particle God doesn’t want us to discover
Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future, as some physicists say

Jonathan Leake

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Explosions, scientists arrested for alleged terrorism, mysterious breakdowns — recently Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun to look like the world’s most ill-fated experiment.
Is it really nothing more than bad [...]

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Human rights, religious freedom and Iran’s nuclear crisis

26 September 2009

Speaking at the UN General Assembly during the past week, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad professed concern for justice, freedom and human rights. He claimed that Iran is “one big and unified family” with full legal rights for religious minorities.
How interesting that Mr Ahmadinejad should decide that it was time to try to sweet-talk world leaders with [...]

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Atheist scientist debases religion and science in the cause of environmentalism

18 September 2009

Frank Furedi

Getting God to do their dirty work
In seeking to use religion to force people to change their eco-unfriendly behaviour, greens are debasing both religious belief and scientific truth.

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We live in world where the cynical manipulation of people’s fears and anxieties often overrides informed public debate. Principles and beliefs seem to have become negotiable [...]

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Quds Day in Iran: Velvet Revolution Trumps Nuclear Negotiations

18 September 2009

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Quds Day in Iran: Velvet Revolution Trumps Nuclear Negotiations

By Mehdi Khalaji and Patrick Clawson
September 17, 2009
While the United States is concentrating on the G-20 summit and the October 1 meeting with the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Iranian attention has been focused on the potentially destabilizing protests planned for September [...]

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The Women’s Crusade

24 August 2009

IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.
Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries [...]

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Advancement of women – paramount moral challenge for the 21st century

24 August 2009
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IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.
Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount [...]

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“Human Rights and Westernizing Illusion” – article by Amartya Sen

23 August 2009
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[AMARTYA SEN is Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University and former Lamont University Professor at Harvard. This article is a revised version of the Commencement Address given at Bard College on May 24, 1997. It originally appeared in the Harvard International Review, Summer 98, Vol. 20 [...]

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Science: Islam’s forgotten geniuses

23 August 2009

Jim Al-Khalili
Published: 12:01AM GMT 29 Jan 2008

For 700 years, the international language of science was Arabic

The untold story of Arabic brilliance should be a timely reminder of a proud heritage, says Jim Al-Khalili
Next year, we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the 150th of the publication of his On The [...]

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On the Strandline – a short story

20 August 2009
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On the Strandline
Posted by: Amy Palko in Creativity

We are beachcombers.  We two cast our gaze wide over the strandline, plundering shingle and shale for treasure hidden in plain sight.  The gradations of blue on the shells of bicuspids, the frosted smoothness of oncewerebottles glass, a couple of oh-so-precious cowrie shells and a piece [...]

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A walk to Hurst Castle

18 August 2009
Hurst Spit and lighthouse

Mrs Barnabas and I had a pleasant interlude on Sunday just gone. We took a walk along the great Hurst Spit to Hurst Castle (not to be confused with Hearst Castle in California) on the Hampshire coast just across the Solent from the Isle of Wight.

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Henry VIII built the original Hurst [...]

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