these people have 10,000 nuclear weapons

This Newsweek poll (full results here) of Americans contains the following statistics about religion:

- 48% of Americans believe that mankind was ‘created in its present form’, with only 13% believing that humans evolved in a…

this monkey’s gone to heaven

A bit out of date now, but in February it emerged that the University of Sydney has agreed to ban stem cell research at a new facility built on land it acquired from a Catholic residential college.

According…

there’s no exit in any direction

A simplistic but amusing take on science vs faith.

And WWGWBD? (via BoingBoing).

(reminds me of this t-shirt too).

they got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five

This comic says something pretty succinctly that I have been thinking a lot lately. It’s by the excellent American cartoonist Ted Rall, who is simultaneously black, bitter, perceptive and extremely funny (warning: and at times, rather left-wing, although…

HIV/AIDS on trial

There is an interesting trial underway at the moment in the South Australian Supreme Court in which a man who was convicted of endangering the lives of three former girlfriends by having sex with them when he knew he was…