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 By Reg Green I commented  a few weeks ago on the fictitious names of small towns that Bill Bryson made up for his book, The Lost Continent. Fungus City was my favorite. However, it turns out, truth really is stranger than fiction. Last night, I was delighted to read that Ava Gardner was born in Grabtown, North Carolina. ...

By Janice Fiamengo

But it’s not clear that a feminist-compliant science culture cares about the truth—or about scienceFor the past five years, vocal members of the American scientific community, led by a bitter MIT Professor of Biology, Kristin Knouse, have been determined to prevent one of the world’s top molecular biologists from doi...

St. Mark (John Mark) by Frans Hals, circa 1625-1630

The Urantia Book, paper 177:

177:0.1 (1920.1)WHEN the work of teaching the people did not press them, it was the custom of Jesus and his apostles to rest from ...

By Theodore Dalrymple

No one likes to be made a fool of, much less actually swindled. Such is the defect of human nature that we are much less upset when we learn of other people who have been swindled than when we have been swindled ourselves, and, in accordance with La Rochefoucauld’s great dictum, that there is in the misfortune of ...

By Conrad Black

Tuesday’s election in Israel will take months of intense bargaining between all of the more than ten parties now to be represented in the Knesset (Parliament), before the composition of the government and the prime minister are identified. The threshold in the popular vote required to elect a legislator is 3.25 per cent...