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CHIMPS' SHORT-TERM MEMORY BLOWS HUMANS AWAY (SOCIETY): Does the video below make you feel a bit stupid? Watch as a chimp at a Japanese university research facility time and again correctly memorizes sequences of random numbers within a few seconds. Then ask yourself whether you could do the same. According to primatologist, Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Ai and her son, Ayumu, can memorize several numbers in sequence after viewing them for only half a second.
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POLITICS

GEERT WILDERS DOES OZ

Australian major cities are currently being toured by Dutch politician and Islam hater, Geert Wilders. Lucky us! It appears that Mr Wilders has extended his ongoing crusade against the Islamisation of the Western world to include the land down under. As one would expect, he is being chaperoned by local sympathisers including radio shock jock, Alan Jones, right wing blogger and newspaper columnist, Andrew Bolt, and volunteers from a little known organisation called the Q Society - the official sponsors of Mr Wilders' speaking engagements.
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SOCIETY

GENOMES AND NEANDERTHALS

Spare a thought for Harvard professor of genetics, George Church. Not only has his recent speculation on the chances of genetic engineering giving rise to a baby Neanderthal been misinterpreted, he's been lumbered for life with a surname that screams headlines: CHURCH SAYS YES TO FREAK BABY!! CHURCH WANTS MORE MONEY FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH!! Thanks to poor language translation of an interview with German news magazine, Der Spiegel, professor Church was misinterpreted...
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RELIGION

XMAS IS FOR ATHEISTS TOO

Yes, the mythical Santa Claus has pagan connections. Yes Christmas time has pagan roots. No, Jesus was not born on the 25th. Your point is? Some fellow atheists around the web make an annual point of touting these facts whenever Xmas time comes around, perhaps hoping it will help diminish or delegitimise it in the public's mind. Or perhaps as a way of celebrating or consolidating their own non-belief with a little anti-Jesus groupthink - killing Christmas to keep the world safe for rationalists, as it were. I think they need to take a deep breath and relax.
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