Peter Higgs Criticises Evangelical Protestants

© The Guardian In a video interview with the Spanish paper El Mundo, Peter Higgs, the man after whom the Higgs Boson was named, has criticised that particle's epithet, 'The God Particle': It's inviting people to confuse theoretical physics with theology, and that's not a good thing to do. Indeed, it has nothing to do with god -...

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Gun Ownership and Gun Deaths

It seems intuitively obvious to me that deaths by firearm would increase according to availability of firearms, and the prevalence of gun crime in the United States appears to bear this out. But that is just one data point; do the statistics bear this out? Well I'm no statistician, but I can just about use Excel, so here's the developed...

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Queenie and Cam

After attending today's Cabinet meeting, the Queen performs her celebrated ventriloquism act on David Cameron. ...

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The Land of the Weak and the Home of the Cruel

O say can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Those broad smiles and bright eyes, through the madman's gunsight, In the schoolrooms once safe, were no longer beaming? And the barrels' red flare, shots shattering the air, Gave proof through the day that our vice was still there; O...

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The Pope is a Twitterer

Here are his first three tweets; the second I thought was rhetorical, but he answered it himself. Looks like talking to himself will be the holy order of the day. Needless to say, this has caused quite a hubbub. Here are some responses: Hmm, good point, well made. Pontifex needs some grooming advice. Well, Christians are...

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