As Dr David Baltimore rose to speak a smoke and thunder of voices rattled the doors at the back of the Great Hall at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Protestors outside had threatened to disrupt his presentation of the third annual Nelson Mandela Science Lecture ( Read more... )

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I see that Dave Barry, noted US writer, is putting himself up for US president. I asked him a question ( Read more... )

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You've got to love YouTube. I really enjoyed Kirk Cameron's take on why bananas are an atheist's worst nightmare (below), but this one is truly extraordinary. Apparently, the proof that evolution is a crock of excrement is purely because life does not spontaneously generate in a bottle of peanut butter.

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I mean, really. At rallies around the country, Union officials and government ministers link arms and don smug smiles to declare, "Business must create jobs." How exactly, when the country has been entirely shut down since last week Thursday because of public holidays commemorating vague and not-quite-there events ( Read more... )

So, a long weekend. Four days here. It's very long ( Read more... )

But on the way I dropped it. Sigh ( Read more... )

I have always thought that one of the most powerfully fulfilling moments must be to stand on a stage, alone, in front of tens of thousands of people and sing a simple, but deeply emotive, song as those myriads stand before you, silent in homage ( Read more... )

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