ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Do you know what you get for saving a woman's life? You get excommunicated from the Catholic church: The head of the Catholic churc...

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the policy of keeping gays and lesbians in the military closet is over : President Obama on Wednesday sign...

Remember the theory about comparing the length of the forefinger (2D) to the length of the ring finger (4D) ? The idea is that a long rin...

Comments translated from Helsingin Sanomat , a major Finnish newspaper which naturally published a chimps and sticks popularization . I pi...

"Notorious radical feminist" -- I want that on a T-shirt. Today, the Times of London quoted Julian Assange saying: “One of the wo...

So what were they? Why were they your favorites? How did you play with them or them? These questions were provoked by the chimp studies...

I have noticed a clear trend during my years as a blogger. Anything vaguely smelling of science which supports traditional gender roles im...

These popularizations of the original study are so fascinating! A new one on cnn.com has dropped the information that the play has been...

Forty percent of Americans believe that God created humans as they are about 10,000 years ago. That's the bad news. The good news is ...

David Lubin, M.D., took this photo early this morning in Florida. He says it's "the first full lunar eclipse on the winter solstice...

Mother Jones discusses a study which finds that female young chimpanzees carry sticks much, much more often than male young chimpanzees. ...

Blogger changed some of its rules about a year ago, and as a consequence of those rule changes my homepage got shorter. It used to fit a ...

The announcement : Ghulam Haider, 11, is to be married to Faiz Mohammed, 40. She had hoped to be a teacher but was forced to quit her clas...

Is to watch Fox news 24/7. A recent study on political misinformation found evidence that voters of all types are misinformed (perhaps wil...

( Source ) A s posted here yesterday, the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives of the United States killed a bill that had ...

Documents seen by the Guardian reveal for the first time the full details of the allegations of rape and sexual assault that have led to ex...

I don't recognize this country anymore. It used to be that you could count on a minimal level of decency to override opportunism and ...

I'm a latecomer to music, which makes all the old music a treasure trove I can dip into without having those emotional strings which me...

She wrote the post I would have written if I had felt enough energy for it.

This is a Swedish twitter topic #prataomdet which means #talkaboutit. It defends Assange's accusers, discusses rape and sexual harass...