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The Benghazi attack was irregular warfare not terrorism.
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May 9th, 2013
A famous portrait that also serves as a memorial to women dying in childbirth.
April 21st, 2013
A letter to John Kerry on the Keystone pipeline and civil disorder..
April 19th, 2013
The US Senate and the European Parliament likened to the ostrich that Sir Thomas Browne tried to feed an iron bun.
April 14th, 2013
Category: Public management, Spirituality and Religion
Eight ideas for reforming the Vatican.
April 6th, 2013
A description of trade among Australian hunter-gatherers from David Graeber: In the 1940s, an anthropologist, Ronald Berndt, described one dzamalag ritual, where one group in possession of imported cloth swapped their wares with another, noted for the manufacture of serrated spears. Here too it begins as strangers, after initial negotiations, are invited to the hosts’ [...]
March 29th, 2013
Category: Feminism, Religion and Politics
A prediction that Pope Francis will move on clerical celibacy.
March 26th, 2013
Category: Biofuels, Built Environment, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Germany, Woolgathering
An experimental apartment block in Hamburg heated by a skin of algae.
March 9th, 2013
Category: Health and Medicine
The one Mississippi baby cured of HIV is good news for the rest of us.