Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.
The attempt by the country of 9 million people to become the world’s first practically oil-free economy is being planned by a [...]
The New York Times reports that editors responsible for publishing cartoons offensive to Muslims in the Daily Illini, University of Illinois’ student newspaper, have been fired in retaliation.
Shaz Kaiseruddin, a third-year law student and president of the Muslim Student Association, is quoted as saying, “I was in disbelief that they would do this, that our [...]
More images from Abu Ghraib shown on Australian television, watch the video. I guess there’s more photos of that one chic that lead the prisoner around on a leash having sex with one of the other soldiers. Some prisoner with the skin ripped off his face. Some other guy with little holes all over his [...]
You’d think a cartoon that has gotten so much attention would be a little easier to find on the internet. I guess the protests are working. Anyway, so here one of them, seems there where 12?
Pretty damn offensive, huh? Completely baffling to me. Am I not the only one that looks at the cartoon and [...]
Sam Harris has posted some interesting comments about the lunatic Muslims upset by cartoons of Islamic prophets.
The idea that Islam is a “peaceful religion hijacked by extremists” is a dangerous fantasy–and it is now a particularly dangerous fantasy for Muslims to indulge. It is not at all clear how we should proceed in our [...]
Found an interesting article about a family of compounds called Ceragenins (CSAs) that have had some really interesting preliminary success in fighting the HIV virus.
What studies to date show is a compound that attacks HIV at its molecular membrane level, disrupting the virus from interacting with their primary targets, the “T-helper” class white blood cells [...]