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Published on Friday, 04 April 2008 19:00 | | 
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Lesley Crombie has a change of heart...
I was brought up in a family that actively loathed animals – all animals – without prejudice: two legs, four legs, no legs. And any human who willing possessed a pet that didn’t have wings or fins was deemed asylum material.
Published on Thursday, 03 April 2008 04:25 | | |
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Written in the wake of the attacks on 9/11, Daisaku Ikeda argues for the need to establish nonviolence as a fundamental principle governing human conduct.
The 20th century was a century of war. Hundreds of millions died in its battles. What has humanity learned from that tragedy? In this new century, the 21st century, we must make the principle that killing is not acceptable or justified in any circumstances the fundamental ethos of humankind.
Published on Wednesday, 02 April 2008 02:10 | | |
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A picture paints a thousand words.
Published on Tuesday, 01 April 2008 19:00 | | |
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General Lee Butler is former head of the US Strategic Command, with responsibility for all US Air Force and US Navy strategic nuclear forces. Even before he retired he had a radical rethink about nuclear weapons.
Nuclear
weapons are the enemy of humanity. Indeed, they're not weapons at all.
They're some species of biological time bombs whose effects transcend
time and space, poisoning the earth and its inhabitants for generations
to come.
Published on Monday, 31 March 2008 19:00 | | |
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Looks like Julia might have a point about the dangers of WiFi, says Phil Becque. Just when you thought it was safe to become a planet-hopping space cadet, it turns out that electrons (of all things) pose a real danger in the radiation belts that surround planet Earth. In case you didn't know, electrons are the subatomic particles, that, when suitably directed, make every modern gizmo work - from iPods & iPhones to washing machines and high-speed trains. If you are a jobbing electronics engineer like me, to be told they might be dangerous is like being told that your well-trained, perfectly behaved pet chihuahua has morphed into gigantic white shark, with the appetite of a killer whale! 
Published on Sunday, 30 March 2008 19:00 | |
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An amazingly difficult time-waster. If you last 18 seconds you're doing brilliantly! Try it here.
Published on Sunday, 30 March 2008 19:00 | |
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The Gum-painting Visionary
It is calculated that, at any one time, there are approximately 300,000 squashed blobs of chewing gum stuck to the pavements of London’s shopping hotspot, Oxford Street. The Borough of Westminster has been doing some counting, too. It reckons there are roughly twenty pieces to every square metre of pavement. When one thinks of what the statistics must be for the whole city – well, the mind boggles!