Keywords: Stem Cell Research
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 04 September 2006
4 Comments
The outcry with which people greeted ex-planet Pluto’s change in status surprised many. Even the language used was astonishing. Pluto had been “demoted”, “banished” and “stripped of its status”. The Times of India reported people buying bumper stickers asking fellow drivers to “Honk if Pluto is still a planet”.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 21 August 2006
When he was installed last week, Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Canberra-Goulburn said that it can't be left to the leader to have all the bright ideas and to make all the best suggestions.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 07 August 2006
6 Comments
The term 'therapeutic cloning' is unfortunate, as it has nothing to do with replicating humans. Researchers undertaking therapeutic cloning would say that the circumstances under which they stimulate human eggs to develop ensure there is no way the result could ever become a human baby.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 03 July 2006
Archimedes was heartened by one aspect of the whole sad Warne anti-doping affair—that people knew enough about the issues to filter out the bulldust.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 June 2006
2 Comments
As Australia's lawmakers consider the implications of the Lockhart review on embryonic stem cell research, the time has come for both church leaders and scientists to pay attention to the 'conscience of the nation'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 26 June 2006
1 Comment
Eureka Street supports the efforts of a rival online publication to encourage political parties to make policy that moves beyond political expediency and 'what's in it for me?'
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RELIGION
Anthony Ham wonders whether Spain can still be considered a Catholic country after all.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Steve Gome, Bernard Doherty, Aaron Martin
- 11 May 2006
Reviews of the books: Geography; Stem Cells: Science, Medicine, Law and Ethics and John F. Kennedy: An unfinished life.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 April 2006
Cardinal George Pell recently spoke to the Acton Society on the limits of liberal democracy.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 30 April 2006
An irony about scientists’ traditional lack of interest in politics is that science is profoundly socially disturbing—especially for ideologues with a conservative point of view.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Thwaites
- 27 April 2006
As humans, we seem to love putting things into boxes, sorting them into categories—black and white, horses and zebras, living and dead. But biology isn’t like that. It’s a continuum.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 April 2006
Andrew Hamilton reflects on Marion Maddox’s God under Howard: The Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics.
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