Type "men" and "hardwired" into Google and you tap into a wonderfully absurd catalog of assertions about male behavior. Men are "hardwired" to cheat, ignore their wives, suspect infidelity, overspend, fail, love money, pursue women and achieve supremacy in the workplace. Meanwhile, women are "har... Read more...
Tens of thousands of students and schoolchildren marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees. Violence erupted as thousand of protesters battled police and stormed the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party. Over 50,000 students, lecturers and s... Read more...
Human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half, a new report has warned. And humanity carries on as it is in use of resources, globally it will need the capacity of two Earths by 2030, the biennial Living P... Read more...
Gregory Isaacs — one of the most popular and versatile reggae singers of the late-1970s, and the smooth-voiced dancehall crooner behind the genre's landmark 1982 LP Night Nurse — passed away this morning at his London home following a year-long battle with lung cancer, the BBC reports. Isaacs ... Read more...
Cancer is a man-made disease fuelled by the excesses of modern life, a study of ancient remains has found. Tumours were rare until recent times when pollution and poor diet became issues, the review of mummies, fossils and classical literature found. A greater understanding of its orig... Read more...
In ‘Regimes, Pathways, Subjects’, Felix Guattari addresses the ‘machine addiction’ which he describes as: “an apparent democratization of access to data and modes of knowledge… a planetary intermixing of cultures, paradoxically accompanied by a rising tide of particularisms, racisms a... Read more...
Pastor Terry Jones was recently sent a security bill of $180,000 by the local authorities for his “burn the Koran” uproar. Pastor Jones is clearly another religious hack pushing hatred and division instead of love and peace, but he is still an American citizen with the right to protest and ... Read more...
Research has shown that bacteria - among the simplest life forms on Earth - have a sense of smell. Scientists from Newcastle University in the UK have demonstrated that a bacterium commonly found in soil can sniff and react to ammonia in the air. It was previously thought that this "olfaction"... Read more...
Fourteen police forces have unlawfully stopped and searched thousands of people on the streets under controversial counter terror powers, the Home Office disclosed today. The blunder occurred when police detained people without having permission to do so from a Home Office minister. On other... Read more...