Epicurus, who likely lived with young boys like all his male contemporaries did, had the right idea it seems. Scientists now say that humans live longer if they have more social interactions. Studying fruit flies Chun-Fang Wu and Honyu Ruan at Iowa University found that mutant fruit flies, sharing a home with young fruit flies …
The British generate a little less than ten tons of carbon per person each year; in the United States the number is about twice that.* It is heartening to know that even in the smallest Cotswold villages people are expected to recycle and to segregate different sorts of waste. Epicurus, of course, had to dispose …
British registrations of 4 x 4s (SUVs) fell more than 18 per cent last month, part of a Europe-wide collapse. Were Epicurus alive today he would be appalled that these monsters were ever designed in the first place in an era of climate change.  Where I live they are overwhelmingly used by young women who …
During an interview with Sen. John McCain on Monday’s NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams noted that “the videotape clip of your comment about being in Iraq 100 years if need be, of course, is still kicking around,” and then asked, “[G]iven your support for the surge and where you believe this nation is in Iraq …
Jewish and Arab religious leaders against Gay Pride Rabbis, Arab-Israeli sheiks object to holding Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem; ‘if gays will dare approach Temple Mount during parade – they will do so over our dead bodies,‘ Arab MK Sarsur says. Leading American Rabbi Yehuda Levin organized a Jerusalem conference attended by both Jewish and …
