Culture and Society

I'm not blaming Google for directly censoring anybody, only that they have created the possibility for censorship.

When does tradition...become the shackle that ties us into backwardness and bigotry?

Now we know why Eminem called of his European tour a couple of days ago: today publicist Dennis Dennehy said the rapper formerly known as Marshall Mathers, 32, was “in the hospital under doctors’ care” recovering from addiction to sleeping medication. He had been due to begin the 10-date European …

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.

I could be a fictional construct you made up and posed questions to for this interview, and then answered yourself.

If you are so inclined, this mystery could be “evidence” against evolution: if scientists can’t classify a 525 million-year-old fossil (annelid? arthropod? mollusc? something else?) then why is there any reason to think it “evolved” at all, rather than having been “created” sui generis and sent on its merry way, …

There are many religions on this planet and many of their believers strongly trust that their particular creed is the one and only true faith. As far as I understand it, they all (or at least the vast majority) seem to believe that there is only one God. Setting aside …

Have a little faith in your congregation's ability to think for themselves.

As we reported in June, the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet’s main oversight body, approved a new domain for “adult-entertainment” sites — .xxx — but now the ICM Registry, the not-for-profit group which would operate the .xxx domain name, has …

Just as in the real world though, it seems that in the virtual world money is beginning to matter.