The ideological battle between world-views for Australia’s heart is a spiritual battle. The universe either has meaning, because God made it… or there is no God and we can do what we like. […]
There is something awfully final about death. After the miracle of birth, death seems a bit of an anticlimax. There is no fanfare, just the slow turning off of the switch for many of […]
A manufacturer in Las Vagas has created what he claims is the first talking robot sex doll. When asked why he had done it, he replied, “I built it so people could have […]
In recent years Great Britain’s chief export to the U.S. has been a stack of books by atheist authors such as evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and literary critic Christopher Hitchens, both of whom […]
Have you heard the story of how a leech solved an eight-year old criminal case of aggravated robbery in northern Tasmania? Evidently, that guy got caught because a leech found at the scene […]
Ever lost something important? NASA has. It’s lost its little, yellow, plastic ducks. If you’ve found them, do please return them. In September 2008, some 90 yellow, plastic ducks were thrown into a […]