By Irfan Husain THIS year will see a large number of celebrations at campuses and scientific institutions around the world to mark the 200th year of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th year of the publication of his seminal work. Widely regarded as one of the three most influential thinkers of the 19th [...]

In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, “Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death”. by Louise Whiteley* Unlike the contestants on Big Brother, the citizens in Orwell’s novel tend to hold their tongues, but ultimately surveillance of their actions is guaranteed to uncover any deviant thoughts they might entertain. Recently, neuroscientists have started to decipher the [...]

ScienceDaily Oct. 10, 2008 A culture of neglect and, at some age levels, outright social ostracism, is derailing a generation of students, especially girls, deemed the very best in mathematics, according to a new study. In a report published Oct. 10 in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, a comprehensive analysis of decades of [...]

By Anwaar Hussain The Muslim world stayed at the pinnacle of glories in science and technology for about 300 years from 900-1200 AD. Muslims’ scientific skills bloomed in Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, and Cordoba, among other cities. Momentous progress was made in such areas as medicine, agronomy, botany, mathematics, chemistry, jurisprudence and philosophy. While the Christian [...]

An Urgent Call by Scientists IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY SCIENCE, AS SCIENCE, IS UNDER ATTACK AS NEVER BEFORE. The signs of this are everywhere. The attacks are coming at an accelerating pace, and include frequent interventions by powerful forces, in and out of the Bush Administration, who seem all too willing to deny scientific [...]

By Tom Burghardt TS Admin: This article is probably the most important article you will read. The covert human experimentation without consent, the nightmarish technologies already hanging over our heads — and worse — the new mind control weapons in the imminent future are intended to be perpetrated on YOU… the American & global population, unless this is [...]

By Brendan O’Neill In the 21st Century, the term “flat-earther” is used to describe someone who is spectacularly – and seemingly wilfully – ignorant. But there is a group of people who claim they believe the planet really is flat. Are they really out there or is it all an elaborate prank? Nasa is celebrating [...]