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The cloning revolution (part 2) | Print |  Email
A revolutionary form of cloning is to be used as part of a last-ditch effort to save one of the world's rarest animals – the northern white rhino – which is on the brink of extinction with only a few individuals left in the wild, reports Steve Connor, Science Editor of The Independent
 
Stop indulging African dictators | Print |  Email
If Africa is to progress, there has to be accountability through the ballot box; and governments such as Britain's, backed by its powerful aid budget, should stop treating the new breed of dictators with kid gloves, writes the former BBC East Africa correspondent Ishbel Matheson in The Times
 
Social Trends Survey reveals only 38% believe in god | Print |  Email
The Office of National Statistics Social Trends survey confirms that religious adherence in the UK continues to decrease with only 38% of the population attesting to a belief in god. You can read the whole survey here
 
Online archive shows how Darwin's ideas evolved | Print |  Email
About 90,000 pages of manuscripts, field notes, photographs and sketches connected with Charles Darwin are being placed online, where they can be viewed free. Among the gems are his first formulation of the theory of natural selection, his first written doubts that species were fixed and touching correspondence from his wife on religious faith. Writes James Randerson in The Guardian
 
How come Zimbabwe and Tibet get all the attention? | Print |  Email
On the basis of the scale of violence, repression and election rigging alone, you would be hard put to explain why these conflicts have been singled out for such special attention. Writes Seumas Milne in The Guardian
 
"Young Earth Creationism", "Creation Science and "Intelligent Design" | Print |  Email

The Geological Society of London has published a statement upholding the right of freedom of belief for all and criticising 'Creationism', saying that "religion and science only become incompatible with each other when one attempts to trespass upon the domain of the other." Thanks to member Peter Taylor for passing this story on, which can be read in full here

 
The cost of green tinkering is in famine and starvation | Print |  Email
"Farewell the age of reason, welcome the idiocracy. Only George Orwell could have invented - and named - the government's Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) that came into operation yesterday. It is the latest in a long line of measures intended to ease the conscience of the rich while keeping the poor miserable, in this case spectacularly so." Biofuels threaten food supplies, rainforest and climate - yet our leaders push them in the name of the environment, fumes Simon Jenkins in The Guardian
 
Migrant crime wave a myth - police study | Print |  Email
A wide-ranging police study has concluded that the surge in immigrants from eastern Europe to Britain has not fuelled a rise in crime, the Guardian has learned .
 
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