by Heather Hastie | Aug 18, 2016 | Guest Posts, Religion, Women
Recently, European reader and science communicator Amy Carparelli came across an article entitled Burka Vs Bikini – The Debauchery Of American Womanhood by Henry Makow (PhD). Makow’s conclusions about why women wear bikinis are incredibly simplistic. An...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 15, 2016 | Terrorism
Professor Martha Crenshaw of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford is an expert on terrorism. Following are three videos produced in 2014 that make up one lecture, jointly titled Understanding Terrorism. The first video, What is...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 11, 2016 | Human Rights, US Politics
The two main candidates for the United States presidency both have a problem appealing to voters in terms of favourability and trustworthiness. Personally I consider the claims of Hillary Clinton’s dishonesty to be overblown, which I wrote about here. In fact,...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 10, 2016 | Science & Nature
I’ve almost finished another post (it should be up later today), but in the meantime I couldn’t resist this wonderful story brought to my attention by Amy Carparelli....
by Heather Hastie | Aug 7, 2016 | Religion, Terrorism
I saw this Letter to the Editor in George Takei’s Facebook feed yesterday. I’m not sure which newspaper it’s from, but it’s probably an Australian one because the writer is from Kalangadoo, which is a tiny settlement in South Australia....
