1. On a wing and a prayer
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... of daily incantations. Zuma's comments to religious leaders at a meeting outside Polokwane last week were historically myopic: let's yank South Africa's flagging morals up by the bootstr...

2. The Neuroscience of Illusion
(Science/General)

... tools used by neuroscientists to understand how the brain creates its sense of reality is the visual illusion. Historically, visual artists as well as illusionists have used visual illusions to devel...

3. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda
(Religion/General)

...sometimes misrepresented as an attempt to apply Darwinian principles to humans. But this interpretation gets it historically backwards, as PZ Myers has pointed out. Darwin's great achievement was ...

4. Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts
(Religion/General)

...s. "You can find messages which say 'that is what the Prophet ordered us to do'. But you can show historically how they came into being, as influences from other cultures, that were then...

5. UK Measles cases jump to record high
(Science/General)

...of measles were associated with outbreaks in travelling and religious communities where vaccine uptake has been historically low. There have also been numerous smaller outbreaks in nurseries and scho...