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How Hitler perverted the course of science (Daily Telegraph)
The Nazis' gruesome experiments became an accepted part of German medical research according to the author of a new history
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When the warmest in history isn't (Jewish World Review)
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Here's another reason why people don't trust newspapers. When science reporters write about, say, hormone therapy or drinking red wine, they report on studies that find that hormones or red wine can be good for you, as well as studies that suggest otherwise.
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UK rides high in new index of casual sex (Guardian Unlimited)
British men and women are among the world's most promiscuous, an international survey of sexual behaviour and attitudes has found. In an index measuring one-night stands, numbers of partners and attitudes to sex, Britain comes out ahead of other industrialised nations such as Australia, the US, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Some 14,000 people in 48 countries filled in ...
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Korea's history: What text should high-schoolers read? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Scholars and bureaucrats here are debating modern Korean history in a dispute that epitomizes differences between Korean leftists and conservatives.
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Arab science (Radio Netherlands)
A thousand years ago, the Arab world was one of the world's great intellectual centres. Arab and Muslim scholars made advances in almost every field of science, math, astronomy, medicine, optics and philosophy.
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In food crisis, Mexican valley offers lessons (AG Weekly)
EDITOR’S NOTE -The U.N. says the number of undernourished people worldwide is climbing toward 1 billion as high food prices squeeze the poorest. This report, first in a periodic five-part series on the future of food, looks at the prospects for science to ignite a new “green revolution.”
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Dinosaur fossil poachers apparently victimize Cleveland Museum of Natural History (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Chris Stephens/The Plain DealerMichael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, poses with a Triceratops skeleton that is half of a new dinosaur display at the museum. It is assumed that poachers took the Tarbosaurus...
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Yount: You can find wisdom in parables (The Record Searchlight)
A reader recently complained that religion is based on “just a bunch of stories.” I replied that the stories happen to be true — not necessarily as science, history, or journalism — but as an indication of how things are and how people are meant to be.
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Bjorn Again brings note-perfect ABBA renditions to Bloomington venue (The Pantagraph)
Chad Holtzman is a Canadian employed by Australians to play a Swede on behalf of dancing queens everywhere — from here to Timbuktu, in fact. But the extreme global demands haven’t dampened his enthusiasm and bemusement over spending the past seven years carrying the titular burden of Bjorn Again, the world’s first and most successful ABBA tribute band.
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Korea's history: What text should high-schoolers read? (The Christian Science Monitor)
Conservatives want to revise high-school texts that they say are dominated by a leftist outlook.
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