h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Obama Ends Stem Cell Research Ban

http://tinyurl.com/7djf4o

overtly homophobic language appears to be in widespread use in schools. Ninety per cent of secondary school teachers said that pupils in their schools are bullied, harassed or called names for being - or being perceived to be - homosexual. And half of teachers who say they are aware of homophobic bullying in school say the overwhelming majority of incidents are never officially reported or dealt with.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/10/homophobia-pupil-behaviour

Build robot, give it emotions, watch it turn into a psychotic bunny boiler. My but I chose the wrong career path!

http://uk.gear.ign.com/articles/959/959790p1.html

difficult to summarise but they built a robot to mimic attachment and love and, well, seems it got a bit possesive about the objects of its affections. Not a problem in itself, except for its strength and enthusiasm.

Financial crisis boosts Ayn Rand's US sales:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/10/ayn-rand-atlas-shrugged


Meanwhile in Yoorp...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/15/marx-germany-popularity-financial-crisis

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4967748/Grandmother-assumed-bogus-identities-to-win-Britains-biggest-radio-competition.html

I'm slightly disturbed by this. Having one one prize, she was "banned" from entering any further competitions.

RF

'One in seven people believe it is acceptable in some circumstances for a man to hit his wife or girlfriend if she is dressed in “sexy or revealing clothes in public”, according to the findings of a survey released today.

A similar number believed that it was all right for a man to slap his wife or girlfriend if she is “nagging or constantly moaning at him”.

The findings of the poll, conducted for the Home Office, also disclosed about a quarter of people believe that wearing sexy or revealing clothing should lead to a woman being held partly responsible for being raped or sexually assaulted. '

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5875108.ece

"A mother has been jailed for eight years for inflicting a "horrific" series of injuries on her two-month-old son, who died hours later."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7934298.stm

anhaga -

I can´t find any link in English.

A famous prostitute is buried next to Calvino

http://heterodoxia.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/reconocimiento-a-activista-por-los-derechos-de-las-trabajadoras-sexuales/

< http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/switzerland/4965192/Uproar-in-Switzerland-as-prostitute-Griselidis-Real-buried-near-Protestant-John-Calvin.html >

Armed guards brought in to protect Assisi church from beggars
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3856158.ece

I bet St Francis is fair birlin'.

'10 shot dead' at German school
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7936817.stm

Oh, I had thought it was Italo Calvino



At Least 10 Dead in German School Shooting

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,612612,00.html

*waves to pheloxi*

I'll have to go and find another piece of news then.

you have more local news source...

thanks Traveller for the link in English

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Italo Calvino wouldn´t mind, but John Calvino would feel a tad "worried" with such companion.

I was wondering why you had posted the link indeed. Browsing through it though it became a bit clearer

And some news, as promised:

Original Bard portrait unveiled
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7932901.stm

Shakespeare's first theatre found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7931823.stm

tech news - interaction with your environment device - looks very cool. It's a TED lecture video but well worth watching I think:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

and a bit more 'apes are smarter than we thought' news -
http://www.labnews.co.uk/laboratory_article.php/4226/2/human-intelligence---is-it-really-all-that?

"nonhuman primates are capable of higher-order relational learning. Understanding the relation between relations was previously believed to be a kind of cognition that sets humans apart from all other animals"