On Wednesday, Israeli forces demolished five homes in the Bedouin community of Abu Nuwar, in the Jordan Valley area of the West Bank. The 25 residents, 17 of whom are children, were not given time to collect their belongings before their homes were bulldozed, and are now homeless in the middle of winter.” (Medical Aid …
In South Korea, many older people fear that if you sleep with an electric fan in the room, you may never wake up. The South Korean news media and scientists keep trying to debunk this notion, but it won’t go away. In 2008, Chun Rim, a professor at the Department of Nuclear and …
A debate on whether to ban the wannabe US president Donald Trump from entering the UK is to be held on 18 January in the British House of Commons after a petition was signed by more than 560,000 people. Trump called for Muslims to be barred from entering the US and said that parts of …
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Moderation is the keynote of Epicureanism. No Epicurean can be a militant atheist like Richard Dawkins, whose books are very interesting and well-written, but who in person is too disagreeable. Contrary to Dawkins, some activities of religion are good, e.g raising money for charity Sunday schools and teaching children consideration and love, honesty and integrity. If …
With the introduction of the inexpensive and very effective gene-editing technology, CRISPR, there is potential to alter all manner of genes, allowing scientists to alter genes for cancer and many other diseases. This is a scientific breakthrough. On the other hand, CRISPR comes with ethical issues: on what and on whom to use it? What …
