BLDGBLOG: Chinese Death Vans
Mobile execution chambers are now on the road in China. As a replacement for the firing squad, this is nomadic power, bringing the state – and lethal injections – to your doorstep.
(tags: china crime politics law rights)
Scientists playing God? We should rejoice - Sunday Times
Nature is astonishingly cruel. Science, by contrast, has [...]
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Within one day the executive director of the MTV Europe Foundation contacted the Safe House to offer EU2000 immediately to pay the electricity bill I mentioned below. This was thanks to a friend in MTV forwarding my mail. The [...]
Psychodynamic /womens studies explanation of sex crimes…just plain wrong
Pugnacious post leads to interesting discussion on the Social and Personality Psychology myspace forum.
(tags: commented rape feminism culture politics contemporary_culture)
spiked-liberties | Article | Stop blurring the line between rape and sex
New Labour’s rewriting of the rape laws is being guided by the ideas of [...]
Female brain’s G-spot found!: “
The heterosexual female brain’s g-spot has been found by a team of scientists. After years of struggle, this breakthrough will finally allow us to render a woman unmoved by a man’s advances. The study pinpoints not only the necessary hormone, but the place in the brain where arousal happens.
Sonoko Ogawa of [...]
Our grip on reality is slim, says UCL scientist
The neurological basis for poor witness statements and hallucinations has been found by scientists at UCL (University College London). In over a fifth of cases, people wrongly remembered whether they actually witnessed an event or just imagined it…
(tags: neurology Neuroscience perception psychology research science memory brain)
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North Korea - A photo essay
Superb photos from a Russian web designer who went to North Korea on a trip.
(tags: culture economics geography image images military photo photography pictures sustainability asia)
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Outrage in ‘Arab press’ forces apology over Israeli flag at World Cup:
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From Haaretz: ‘Ghana Football Association apologizes for Israeli flag at World Cup match’
Ghana’s Football Association apologized Monday after Hapoel Tel Aviv defender John Paintsil pulled out an Israeli flag during celebrations over Saturday’s 2-0 victory over the Czech Republic.
‘It was an action out [...]
In Aftermath of a Media Storm, Honest Reporting looks at the aftermath of the Gaza beach incident and questions of Palestinian credibility.
It devestates the claims that this was an Israeli attack.
Even the anti-Israeli poster boy, Marc Garlasco, the widely quoted “expert” who opined after the incident that it was definately an Israeli attack, has [...]
Abandoned Italian village - Photo Essay
Is this the future of a depopulated europe? Abandoned villages, or entire town full of third world immigrants?
(tags: history italy Europe immigration depopulation the_decline)
Dear Friends,
Back in 1986, during the early days of the environmental movement (when it was thought to be the preserve of mad hippies and conspiracy nuts), a hugely successful campaign by Greenpeace to “Save the Whales” galvanised the young movement into a political and moral fighting force that succeeded in having commercial whaling banned forever……or [...]