BBC NEWS | Health | Orgasms 'at the touch of a button'
Women around the world are being told they can now have an orgasm at the touch of a button.
(tags: sex health technology relationships)
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient shark had colossal bite
The great white shark may have awesome jaws but they are nothing compared [...]
[Preamble: This post takes issue with a few paragraphs of a very long and overall excellent report from Kosovo. I have the author at a disadvantage as I am nitpicking over words and phrases that perhaps I have misinterpreted and that perhaps require more context. Please judge for yourselves by reading the article first before [...]
Earlier this evening the pro-Karadzic rally called by the Serbian Radical party turned violent (B92 report now online).
It all happened very fast, with a group of hooligans spotting a relatively isolated unit of riot police, putting on masks and attacking.
I think the incident could have been prevented by a more organised police response. The police [...]
In June this year author & Balkanologist Misha Glenny was interviewed by B92 about his new book on organized crime “McMafia”.
The interview gives a fascinating insight into the role of organized crime in the Balkans, in particular their central role in the recent Balkan wars.
I have quoted the interview extensively here in a few sample [...]
Yesterday afternoon I decided to attend one of the daily protests in support of Radovan Karadzic that are being organized by Serbian ultra-nationalists.
Here are a selection of pictures from the event, which was entirely peaceful, but in many ways utterly bizarre, especially when Mladic showed up…
This was the scene playing out as I arrived, about [...]
My latest piece, exploring the Karadzic arrest, has just been published over at Pajamas Media
Pajamas Media » Shocked Serbians Celebrate Karadzic’s Capture
One of the high points of my recent vacation was coming back from the beach, turning on Al-Jazeera International (incredibly, my favourite 24 news program) and seeing the news that SA has stunned New Zealand at home.
Oh the sweetness of it.
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…back from magnificent Istria 1 …normal blogging to resume from tomorrow….Look out for the Istria report soon.
Istria is a region of Croatia. It is absolutely gorgeous and the locals are utterly charming ↩
Mladin Kovacevic
“Who the hell is Miladin Kovacevic,” you might ask, “A war criminal?”
Not quite, he is a Serb college basketball player involved in the horrific beating of a fellow student in a New York State town who was then helped to escape the USA and return to Serbia by a Serbian diplomat.
The US government is [...]
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Experts unveil ‘cloak of silence’
(tags: audio engineering future physics Sound technology science)
Religious communities are driven by sexual advantages | behaviour and intelligence news at abelard.org
“Religious attendance in the contemporary United States is to support a high-fertility, monogamous mating strategy”
(tags: evolution evolutionary_psychology religion sexuality sex)