1. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

...;soft” racism which teaches that some races have “higher qualities than others”; that hair and skin colour have “spiritual significance”. That is partly why it is so alar...

2. Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man
(Science/General)

... Many other creatures get goose bumps for the same reason, for example this is why a cat or dog’s hair stands on end and the cause behind a porcupine’s quills raising. In cold situations, ...

3. How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
(Science/General)

...e was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." Wigmore a...

4. Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill
(Science/General)

...ork of human relationships is wider and more complex, and just as important to survival. The corporate chairman throws out a sarcastic remark and those who "get" it laugh, smile, and gain fa...

5. Put a Little Science in Your Life
(Science/General)

...great masterpieces, this way of teaching science squanders the chance to make students sit up in their chairs and say, "Wow, that's science?" In physics, just to give a sense of the ra...

6. Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong
(Science/General)

Why fallible expertise trumps armchair science—a Q&A with sociologist of science Harry Collins If you take scientists at their word, human-induced climate change is well underway, evolutio

7. If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
(Religion/General)

... Before the Four Horsemen arrived, the face of atheism in this country belonged to Madalyn Murray O'Hair—"Mad Madalyn"—the pugnacious founder of American Atheists who disowne...

8. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
(Good news/Humour)

...sm proudly out of the closet!" Russell T Davies is a big man squeezed into a smallish leather armchair, at a private members' club in London. Six feet six inches tall, he waves his big hands...

9. The Great Tantra Challenge
(Paranormal/General)

...body. Sanal did not flinch. Then he touched Sanal's head with his hand, rubbing and rumpling up his hair, pressing his forehead, laying his hand over his eyes, pressing his fingers against his tem...

10. They prayed to cast Satan from my body
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...e was subjected to the cruel, illogical treatment in the Sunshine Coast house. "I was pulling my hair out - it's a condition called trichotillomania," said Smith, now 29. "However...

11. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
(Science/General)

...t her indictment is not limited by age or ideology. Yes, she knows that eggheads, nerds, bookworms, longhairs, pointy heads, highbrows and know-it-alls have been mocked and dismissed throughout Americ...

12. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ally culled their numbers, leaving behind genetically different and fitter survivors. Michael Bisson, chair of anthropology at McGill University, cites native North Americans who were felled by vario...

13. Down’s syndrome bombers kill 91
(Religion/General)

...shim Fahad, an Iraqi army officer, said that she looked foreign. There were reports that she had blonde hair. Ahmed Dabab, 36, a bird seller, said: “People were gathering around where most of t...

14. Numerology : Your number's up
(SA Media watch/Nonsense alert)

...oor is opened. Lana is someone who would stand out in a crowd, with her brightly coloured clothing and hair. I'm hot and bothered, and she gestures me to a comfortable couch and brings me a glass...

15. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...; no Northern Ireland “troubles,” no “honor killings,” no shiny-suited bouffant-haired televangelists fleecing gullible people of their money (“God wants you to give till...

16. Krugel: 'Maddie lies here'
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

...e. I showed the police the blanket but I don't know if they picked it up," he added. Taking a hair from Madeleine's coat, which was given to him by her father, Krugel's equipment rep...

17. 'Crime-solving' gadget on the way
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

... prolific in dealing with sexual offences cases - did not return calls. Krugel says that, mostly using hair, he is able to trace missing people, or their remains. The MOS works "primarily with D...

18. 'Crime-solving' gadget on the way
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

... prolific in dealing with sexual offences cases - did not return calls. Krugel says that, mostly using hair, he is able to trace missing people, or their remains. The MOS works "primarily with D...

19. SA man's hunt for Maddie
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

...m and uses a small sample of DNA and "like" material in this case a strand of Madeleine's hair to geographically pinpoint remains. The technology claims it can find missing people, dea...

20. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...brated as a virtue. In his influential essay “The Wisdom of Repugnance,” Leon Kass, former chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics, argued that we should disregard reason when ...

21. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

... childhood accident involving water; clothing never worn; photos of loved ones in wallet or purse; wore hair long as a child, then shorter haircut; one earring with a missing match, and so forth. Medi...

22. Fish out of water: Your Inner Fish
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Shubin, Chicago's Robert R. Bensley professor, chair and associate dean for Organismal Biology & Anatomy, is also provost of the Field Museu...

23. Darwin and Hitler : Satan's dream team
(Religion/Atheism)

...mans it will actually make us stronger and better!  Darwin wants me to kill all the Jews and brown haired bastards!  Ok, Darwin... I'll do it!" WWII was under way, and Satan's D...

24. Can a Virgin Give Birth?
(Religion/Atheism)

...ell, it can give rise to a tumor made up of many different types of tissue—liver, teeth, eye, and hair, for example. Parthenogenesis in humans never produces viable embryos, though, because unf...

25. Designer microbes to save us all
(Good news/All)

...nts mix with chemicals that make the molecules join into relatively short strings, says John Mulligan, chairman of Blue Heron Biotechnology Inc., a Bothell, Washington-based company that sells synthet...

26. Matter Orientation System (MOS)
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

..., uses a small sample of “signature” and "like" material – such as a single hair – to "geographically pinpoint the main body from which it was sourced," as ...