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The Making of a Mad Scientist
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The Making of a Mad Scientist

Thomas Crow particle.scitech.org.au Thomas Crow is an Australian science writer. He has a background in professional writing, biochemistry and genetics. He writes for Australian and New Zealand research institutes and publications like Crikey. He’s a horror and gothic fantasy fan. He thinks of himself as a

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You’ve Got to Laugh at Comedians

You’ve Got to Laugh at Comedians

Grant Finch You’ve got to laugh at comedians, though not for the reasons they presume. Comedians’ stock in trade was poking fun at authority figures, and giving alternate takes on popular convention. Then came Jacinda! Now, you’d be hard-pressed to find more sycophantic cheerleaders for the state,

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Human Beings Are Not Petri Dishes

Rebecca In a newspaper this week, a journalist called “Malpass” identifies government splitting from epidemiological advisors. According to Malpass, epidemiologists only consider the bug while politicians have to consider more than that, which explains the split for him. Unfortunately, he misunderstands epidemiology, a word that doesn’t mean the study

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Why Comedy Is So Often in the Crosshairs

Why Comedy Is So Often in the Crosshairs

Dane Giraud fsu.nz Dane Giraud is a comedy and screenwriter and is a spokesperson for the Free Speech Union. “You can’t joke about that”. This was the response I got from a local commissioner to what remains my dream project — a comedy show based in a South Auckland

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

John Simmons newsbusters.org On Monday, Washington State University head coach Nick Rolovich was fired from his job, along with four of his assistants. It wasn’t because of his record, the Cougars are 4-3 and currently rank third in the PAC-12 North division. It wasn’t because

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Sir David Amess: A Light Prematurely Extinguished Burns Even Brighter

Sir David Amess: A Light Prematurely Extinguished Burns Even Brighter

Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer lives in the UK. She is the author of By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign (CUAP, 2008); The Language of Life: Christians Facing the Abortion Challenge (St Pauls, 1995), and Prophets & Priests: the Hidden Face of the Birth Control

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Euthanasia Advocates Now Promoting ‘Rational Suicide’

righttolife.org.uk As euthanasia and right-to-die activists debate the use of a new lethal drug for euthanasia in the Netherlands, certain activists are promoting ‘rational suicide’ as an alternative to the current legislative framework. Philip Nitschke and his partner, Fiona Stewart, are leading advocates of the ‘rational

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‘Pro-life Champion’ Sir David Amess MP Stabbed to Death at Surgery

‘Pro-life Champion’ Sir David Amess MP Stabbed to Death at Surgery

righttolife.org.uk Pro-life MP Sir David Amess has tragically died after being stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery. Paramedics tried for two hours to save Sir David at the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, but he died of his injuries. Sir David, 69, leaves behind

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Too Big to Fail? Why It’s China’s Turn to Stumble and Fall

Too Big to Fail? Why It’s China’s Turn to Stumble and Fall

Simon Angelo wealthmorning.com Simon is the Chief Executive Officer and Publisher at Wealth Morning. He has been investing in the markets since he was 17. He recently spent a couple of years working in the hedge-fund industry in Europe. Before this, he owned an award-winning professional-services

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3 Environmental Doomsday Myths, Debunked

3 Environmental Doomsday Myths, Debunked

Jack Elbaum fee.org Jack Elbaum is a Hazlitt Writing Fellow at FEE and an incoming sophomore at George Washington University. His writing has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Post, and the Washington Examiner. For many, thinking about the future of our planet is

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), who was working at The Royal Observatory at Greenwich

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