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Greens win spot in TV election debates OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the head of another party backed down on Wednesday and agreed to let Green Party leader Elizabeth May into the country's election debates for the first time. It is a major victory for the Greens...

He was on the road again. j/k

Let pupils abandon spelling rules, says academic Children are being held back at school because they are forced to memorise irregular spellings and learn how to use the apostrophe, a leading academic will claim this week. John Wells, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at University College...

Psychic Kids See Dead People Video This made me lol, thought I'd share. Warning: contains a healthy dose of scepticism.

Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome MUNICH (Reuters) - Young men who die suddenly after being arrested by the police may be victims of a new syndrome similar to one that kills some wild animals when they are captured, Spanish researchers said on Tuesday. Manuel Martinez Selles...

Scientists unlocking mysteries of intuition ATTEMPTS to manipulate consumers with subliminal messages, flashed onto movie or TV screens, once thrilled admen and panicked the public, but the furore faded when the technique failed to work. But a study published today has given what is...

Russia's Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was feted by Russian media on Sunday for saving a television crew from an attack by a Siberian tiger in the wilds of the Far East...

American voters American political attitudes have changed little in 50 years [GALLO/GETTY] "No-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." H L Mencken Almost 50 years ago, when Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House, a group of social scientists did an...

101 Atheist Quotes The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw Faith means not wanting to know what is true. -...

Books Can Control Your Mind as Powerfully as Television Tales from George Orwell's 1984 to the movies Network and Videodrome are all about how people are so controlled by television that they'll do anything. Usually, books are presented as an antidote to a TV-controlled populace. But now a new...

U.S. to take control of Georgian ports: Saakashvili TBILISI (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's pledge to send aid to Georgia means that the U.S. military will take control of the ex-Soviet state's ports and airports, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Wednesday. "You...

Bohm's bummed: wave theory needs 10,000x light speed to work One of the most controversial parts of modern physics is what it tells us about philosophy. Both quantum mechanics and special relativity have much to say on the limits of what can be casually related, the degree to which reality is...

Berkeley Scientists: World In 'Mass Extinction Spasm' Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just the deaths of frogs and salamanders, University of California, Berkeley scientists said Tuesday. Researchers said...

But I Did Everything Right! DNA discoveries are revealing why even the best parenting doesn't have the effects experts promise, from breast-feeding to letting kids learn from mistakes. If there is one thing experts on child development agree on, it is that kids...

Is Mars Between Ice Ages? "Mars is not a dead planet -it undergoes climate changes that are even more pronounced than on Earth." James Head, planetary geologist, Brown University The prevailing thinking is that Mars is a planet whose active climate has been confined to the distant...

Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a new...

Did the U.S. Prep Georgia for War with Russia? Georgia and Russia are careening towards war. And the U.S. isn't exactly a detached observer in the fight. The American military has been training and equipping Georgian troops for years. The news thus far: Georgia, which has been locked in a...

Vancouver hammer attacks VANCOUVER - A 31-year-old man with a history of mental illness has been charged with aggravated assault after nine people on Davie Street were struck in the head with a hammer Sunday night, the same day as the city's gay pride parade. Khalid Alzghoul was charged Monday...

Spreed it! I love this little Java applet. Try reading a book at 300 words a minute: Project Gutenberg.

Morgentaler among those named to Order of Canada Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean has named a leading abortion rights crusader to the Order of Canada, news that has outraged anti-abortion groups. Dr. Henry Morgentaler is one of 75 Canadians to receive honours for their contribution to the country...