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Here's the link: Glacier crack places Peruvian city in peril

Yup - the announcement two years ago was just a little premature - but now the mapping is complete and finalised: Human genome finally complete

Yup - like it says on the tin. Over the past few days a visit by the Googlebot last month has finally come up in the search terms. Unfortunately, it was too early to get anything but the main pages (Home, FAQ, About), and also Confucianism, which were the only sections up at the time. There's a...

This isn't intended to be insulting - I usually have a dynamically neutral position towards Christianity. But there's an important Atheist objection to the whole "salvation plan" which I suddenly thought of in the context of the recent conflict, while watching the news recently. I hope the...

This topic indirectly arose in another thread - so it would be interesting to see the responses from current and future members. Is Christianity really too fixated Salvation? If so, why? Is it down to denominationalism, Church power and control, or simply a personal need on an individual level...

I came across a message on another site, which talked about "sensing spirits" and "banishing" them. I somehow found the whole concept a little misguided - I cannot help but feel that the entire language of spirituality is based on metaphors, but that for some people those metaphors became...

Here's a question - Jesus was biologicall male. To be biologically male requires both an X and a Y chromosome. Women have two X chromosomes. The Y chromosome can only come from the paternal line. But if Joseph was not the father of Jesus, then where exactly did Jesus's Y chromosome come from...

A hypothetical (obviously)... ;) You are given the chance to wield omniscient omnipresent powers for a day. So what would you do? What would you change most about the world? Why?

The most common precepts of religion - known as the Two Pillars of Wisdom - are that there is God, and that compassion is the way of being. More succinctly, Divinity finds expression through compassion. This is not actually intended to be a statement on the nature of God. The statement itself...

Two on early humanids that may be of interest: Neanderthals as nimble-fingered as humans Evidence of earliest human burial

Okay, let's see if anyone wants to open up on this topic. Global Environment Report at New Scientist has links to various important up-to-date environmental articles. What is happening to the world? And why? How do we correct it?

There's a lot of good music available on the net for free. Some crud as well. ;) The short is that when I was promoting my own music on mp3.com, some while ago, I listened to a lot of the Renaissance/Celtic/Period Folk music - and then placed my favourites into a playlist called "Aairin's...

Now this is something I found interesting in New Scientist this week, and I'm glad they've made it avialable online. Basically, Betsy Hartman argues that a lot of American environmentalism is being hi-jacked by right-wing anti-immigration thinking. I'll risk a couple of interesting quotes...

Here's a nice article from this month about an important Egyptian town discovered near Saqqara - which if folks remember is the placement of the first pyramid, designed by Imotep.

Thought I'd post this link about the recent background microwave mapping. This is being heralded as a "Rosetta Stone" of sorts - it presents some quite precise data that a New Scientist editorial declared would make or break a number of theories about the nature of the universe. So long as we...

Here's a story that slipped through - a richly buried skeleton beneath Stonehenge apparently is identified as originating from the Alps. Story covered by these sources: BBC CNN Discovery

They're claiming an Egyptian link. Hmmm... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2856399.stm

Here is an interesting article on the history of Druidry - from the website of the British Druid Order.

This is an interesting article: http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/home_and_garden/article/0,1426,MCA_523_1818045,00.html A little worried it would disappear from that site as they preserve server space, I've taken the liberty to copy the most important section - which involves some interesting...

Here's a silly little piece of entertainment ;) - http://www.rampantgecko.com/paradox/magicquiz.html