February 2012
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The Magical Properties of Marmite and Other... →
needlesslydefiantwithtea:
notcompletelyuseless:
Then you used the wrong word in your last post. Monkeys are making tools to help them with everyday objects. We were making tools before we could communicate properly, we found fire, and the fact that water would quench the fire with…
Will you kids be quiet?
Social and natural sciences are not mutually exclusive, nor is one...
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Two Point Oh Dear
The cause of the Syrian people continues to excite foreign policy commentators in the UK. One offering in the last few days was this article on the Huffington Post by Luke Bozier. Others have taken to twitter to denounce compliance with international law as an “excuse for idiocy” and ruminated extensively on the veto power of the permanent members of the Security Council (P-5). Mr...
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“This is truly a historic day in Washington state, and one where I couldn’t be...”
– Christine Gregoire, Governor of Washington; statement on the passage of legislation to allow equal marriage; a bill she will sign into law today
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No Platform has No Leg
The No Platform policy of the NUS is guaranteed to generate its own little storm every time it comes up for renewal in student unions up and down the land. Students splutter angrily into their pints of lager at the temerity of their opponents in the matter to voice their opinions. Inevitably, the spirit of debate is a little pressed around this time - a cocktail of youthful assurance, intellectual...
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“All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same-sex couples the...”
– Justice Stephen R. Reinhardt, Majority Opinion in Perry V. Brown, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
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All Hell
William Sherman, a man with a deep understanding of war, once remarked that it was “all hell”. We must have this thought foremost in our minds when we consider the situation at hand in Syria and the implications of tonight’s veto of the proposed Security Council resolution on the matter. There are those who are calling for the use of force by some states against Syria in an...