- danah.org/ani – your best bet for Ani DiFranco lyrics
- ‘People are decent. Peace is cool’
- The stories behind some famous pop songs (The Guardian)
- Songs of Steel – an oral history of the The Don Valley (between Sheffield and Rotherham) (part of Radio 2’s Radio Ballards)
- Q. There are more terrorists now than before the war. Is the occupation causing more terror?
A. Well, nobody can say for sure if that’s a man-made terror increase. It may just be a periodic shift in the natural terror cycle.
Q. Tell me more about this “not our fault” theory – I find it oddly compelling. - Applied mathematical theology: You have a message. (Gregory Benford in Nature)
- ‘If you want to be deeply unfashionable, just read on. If you want to enter terrain so wildly out of date that mere mention of it has become taboo, then you’ve come to the right place. Brace yourself.’ (Jonathan Freeland in the guardian on the growing divide between the rich and the poor in the UK ‘a challenge to our assumption that we are a civilised society at all.’)
- ‘There’s a perfectly plausible case that the modern industrial civilisation is going, through global warming and similar excitements, to make the planet pretty much uninhabitable for human beings, and if it does so, almost everyone who contirbuted will be able to show they had good financial reasons to make things worse. That doesn’t make it the fault of the bankers, but without the banking system it wouldn’t have happened.’
- The city, modernism and protest (Matt at interconnected.org)
- Jay Ingram writes psychologically based science stories for the toronto star
- Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
- Video: the shopping channel meets the arms trade
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