In its fourth and final report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), winner (with Mr. Al Gore) of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, concluded that global warming is "unequivocal" and already threatens hundreds of millions of lives and as much as two-thirds of the species on the planet. That warning should be foremost in the minds of world leaders when they gather in Bali, Indonesia, next month to develop a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. There can be no more denial and stalling: Immediate action by all nations is required. The IPCC is a United Nations-sponsored...
Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction roundup
The Guardian
The Guardian
Communications technology, books and 'convergence and bizarre associations'...
Wren and School Security: Use of Anonymous Crime Surveys Helps Decipher Fact From Fiction
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
Fact or fiction?
The Star
The Star
Physicist Dr Michio Kaku blurs the line between science and science fiction. entertainment@thestar.com.my SCIENCE and science fiction used to be two very different things. The former, in a broad sense of the word, is an...
Take 5 Interview with historical Christian fiction author Laurie Alice Eakes
The Examiner
The Examiner
Christian historical fiction author Laurie Alice EakesLaurie Alice Eakes Laurie Alice Eakes – in her own words:...
Boyd Tonkin: The longest, and last, all-star fiction show
The Independent
The Independent
Looking back on the 1930s, when even a pack of poets might shine in the firmament of literature, one of their enemies minted a collective name for the most fashionable young bards of the age. "McSpaunday" fused Louis...
Tale of an Unsung Fossil Finder, in Fact and Fiction
The New York Times
The New York Times
Mary Anning was one of the few women to make a success in paleontology and one of the fewer still whose success was not linked to that of a paleontologist spouse (or any spouse: she was single). She made five major...


