Philosophy

Pigeons shown to have number sense

OTAGO, New Zealand, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Pigeons can match primates in their numerical abilities, such as putting numbers in order, New Zealand researchers say.  read more »

U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters

A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters.  read more »

Steven Hayes Sentenced to Death for the Deadly Conn. Home Invasion

Steven Hayes was sentenced to death by a Connecticut jury today (11.8.2010) for his role in the deadly 2007 home invasion that killed Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters.  read more »

Student caught in middle: Dream of college awakes to the reality graduates face when here illegally

To advocates on both sides of the immigration debate, Miriam Torres is emblematic of the problems facing this country.  read more »

Online churches draw believers, critics

(CNN) -- Hjalti á Lava was searching his iPhone for a Bible app when he stumbled across Church Online, a service of Web site LifeChurch.tv.  read more »

Injunction by Twitter: Stopping a Web Impostor

British members of Parliament and their prospective challengers are thronging onto social-networking sites with all the enthusiasm and grace of dads getting down on the dance floor.  read more »

Is 13 Too Young to Sail Around the World Solo?

A Dutch court placed a 13-year-old girl in temporary custody on Friday, Aug. 28, after her parents insisted on supporting her bid to become the youngest person to sail around the world solo.  read more »

Energy Management Startup Hara Nabs Coke as Client

Hara, which makes software for tracking natural resources, is only about 18 months old, but Coke is rolling out the software around the world.  read more »

Researchers await federal stem cell funds

For eight years, scientists have taken extreme measures to continue researching how embryonic stem cells could treat illness and injury.  read more »

'Golden Compass' opens amid Catholic boycott (in Guam)

"The Golden Compass," the movie version of the first book in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy that has prompted a nationwide boycott by the Catholic League for its alleged atheistic messa  read more »

Feds to ban veils at ballot

Critics pan legislation that will require all federal voters to show their faces  read more »

Ex-Members of the Far Right (Neo-Nazi) Warn of Life They Left

Germany is trying to fight rising neo-Nazism by, among other things, helping individuals deep in the far right scene to get out, get a job and a get new life.  read more »

School to Offer Full Range of Birth Control to Students Over 11

A middle school in Maine will become one of few in the nation to make contraceptives, including birth-control pills, available to students as young as 11.  read more »

Artificial life born in lab

If you thought maverick American biologist Craig Venter had settled down to a bald, bearded and buck naked existence on his luxury yacht Sorcerer II, emerging once a while to deliver talks on the fut  read more »

Getting Word Out About Shootings at Delaware State

Someone shot and badly wounded two students on the Delaware State University campus in Dover around 1 a.m. Eastern time and is still at large this morning.  read more »

60 years on, Kashmir core issue Srinagar, Jammu poles apart

SIXTY years after the independence of the Sub-continent from British rule, the status of Kashmir remains the most contentious issue between Pakistan and India, with a survey showing that a majority of  read more »

Catholicism is the only true church, Vatican declares

With Pope Benedict XVI's blessing, the Vatican released a document Tuesday that said the Catholic Church is the one true church and other Christian bodies shouldn't be called churches.  read more »

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