Lifestyle topics
The Guardian (September 21st) reports that twice as many girls as boys are being born in some Arctic villages because of high levels of man-made chemicals that mimic human hormones. The chemicals are carried in in the mother’s bloodstream through the placenta to the feotus, switching hormones to create girls. These chemicals are accumulating in …
"Common sense tells us, " says Madeleine Bunting in The Guardian," that if the planet’s resources are being grossly depleted, there are just too many of us around." Yet none of the environmental lobbying groups will mention this obvious fact "because of the unpleasant associations it brings with it." If we admitted there were just …
Soaring levels of obesity in the Western world are expected to trigger an infertility crisis among women, according the The Guardian (September 21st, 2007). It seems that one in fifteen women have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) (Ah! another syndrome – Ed.), an excess of male hormones that cause cysts to grow on the ovaries, and …
There were in the 19th century two kinds of imperialism, according to Lord Carnarvon, Disraeli’s Colonial Secretary. There was the false kind – Caesarism, despotism – and there was the British kind – a world-wide trust, keeping the peace, elevating the savage, relieving the hungry, and uniting in loyalty all the British peoples overseas. Imperialism …
One question. If this is the information age, how come nobody knows anything? (From a New Yorker cartoon)
