1. Scientists Find Abnormallly Large Star
(News/Blog)

... using both the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope to make the discovery. What they found was a star, R136a1, located in the Tarantula Nebula within ...

2. Of iPhones and Freedom
(News/Blog)

... merits of the U.S. economic system versus the European economic system. As Clive Crook points out in the National Journal, it has become fashionable for some Europeans and American Europhiles to claim ...

3. Ireland Knuckles Under to Soviet Europe
(News/Blog)

How 'bout that democracy — that working for you, Ireland? It seems that a few weeks ago the Irish decided to throw their lot in with the European Union. Down with an independent Irish nation and into ...

4. October Cold Weather - Where is Global Warming Now?
(News/Blog)

... “Chilly weather follows record early snowfall” Oct. 16, Omaha World Herald, Nebraska: “So far, it’s been Octobrrr” And it is not just in the U.S. — From Europe and Australia: Oct. 8, WeatherZone: ...

5. Future Tech
(Archive/Features)

... technology will continue to make better food available to more people. Despite the criticism leveled against it, especially in Europe, the next revolution in agriculture, the one that will bring a new ...

6. The Lessons of Ancient Rome
(Archive/Reviews)

... the political philosophy of Europe and, later, America where the American Founding Fathers were influenced by several factors, not the least of which was their familiarity with the history of Rome. The ...

7. The Fall of the Roman Empire
(Archive/Reviews)

... on the world stage for more than 1,000 years. Its collapse in 476 was an historical change of colossal proportions. Despite the fact that the Empire had ruled Europe and Africa for so long and had wielded, ...

8. Global Warming Skepticism
(Archive/Features)

... that "European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas [told] the BBC that people should view the battle against climate change as a war — accepting the privations of a wartime economy and expecting ...

9. The Fall of Rome
(Archive/Features)

... authority, nor did the Goths under Alaric seek the end of the empire. Nor for that matter did the Vandals in Africa or Attila in central Europe. They all sought, to greater or lesser degrees, accommodation ...

10. Malaria: The Silent Pandemic
(Archive/Features)

... minister, who spends a lot of time at the international gatherings and sharing coffee and cocktails with his European environmental counterparts, does not agree,” Innis laments. “Consequently he is fighting ...

11. Religion and Civilization
(Archive/Features)

... from that reign in his own computations."9      This ancient relationship between religion and science was continued into the so-called Age of Reason following the Renaissance and the Reformation in Europe. ...

12. Duranty’s Lethal Lies
(Archive/Features)

... once served as the breadbasket of Europe. In a scandalous infamy far worse than the Blair episode, Walter Duranty, in the pages of the New York Times, said the genocide didn’t happen — even though he and ...

13. Freedom and Prosperity
(Archive/Features)

... the English possessions in America were far inferior in natural riches to those which fell to the lot of other Europeans, yet the security of property and of liberty” in England’s American colonies “gave ...