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60-foot penis painted on roof
Thanks to the BBC website for this current affairs nugget:
An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents’ £1 million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They say he’ll have to scrub it off when he gets back from [...]
Green activists ‘are keeping Africa poor’
I’ve just read a very interesting article in yesterday’s Times newspaper, where the British former chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, states that Western ‘do-gooders’ (in this instance NGOs) are impoverishing Africa by promoting traditional organic farming methods at the expense of modern scientific agriculture.
The article states that NGOs from Europe and America are turning [...]
Shun meat, says UN climate chief
By, Richard Black, BBC News, September 7, 2008
People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN’s top climate scientist.
Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will make the call at a speech in London on Monday evening.
UN figures suggest that meat production [...]
Female intuition - unique to women?
Female intuition - is it unique to women?
“No” says the Swedish professor Lars-Erik Björklund after having done brain research on the topic of intuition the past many years. He says it is simply neurobiology.
Intuition is apparently not female nor unique, it is usually a result of years of experience and saved up knowledge which can [...]
Ugandan HIV-activists face life in prison for handing out flyers
I don’t consider myself a lesbian, but I am a humanist (and an HIV-activist) and I was utterly shocked when I read today that three homosexual HIV-activists had been arrested in Uganda and may be facing a sentence of life in prison.
For what crime you may ask? The answer is to prevent the spread [...]
A night at the Orphanage with Cyclone Nargis
This post is an account of a night spent at Safe Haven Orphanage on the Thailand Burma border as Cyclone Nargis passed by North West of us. If you would like to make a donation to the victims of the Cyclone inside Burma - please do so at Givetoburma.org.
Last week I headed to Mae Sot [...]
The Top Ten Trends of the Extreme Future
The following ten trends identify the strategic challenges that every person, organization and nation will be dealing with in the future.
The Extreme Future, based on Dr. Canton’s new book, is an emerging era of complex new changes and challenges; many we have never had to deal with before. Also, the combination of trends, from [...]
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