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The world’s oldest and largest collection of rock art – the Burrup Peninsula, or Murujuga, on the Dampier Archipelago – has been deregistered as a sacred site under new guidelines to the Western Australia’s weak Aboriginal heritage laws, which state there must be evidence of religious activity to qualify it as a ‘sacred site’.
The change has led to questions about whether the art will be reinstated to the cultural heritage register following a successful Supreme Court decision that ruled against the WA government’s definition of a ‘sacred site’.

The Sokal Affair, from the edited h2g2, the Unconventional Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything

You may believe that whether a person is found not guilty due to insanity depends on the courts, on the doctors, or even just on the money they paid their lawyer. It doesn't. It depends on what you think of insanity as a legal defense.

How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the vaccine-autism link.

Chimpanzees can learn a new sound for a common object, suggesting that the ability to acquire the building blocks of language may be more ancient than humans, according to a new study.

 #IBTOKA Q&A with the physician and science writer on his new book.

Stories like the virgin birth lack freely given female consent. It's telling how ready we still are to embrace them

Thought-provoking 5 minutes on the state of the world from the late, great Alan Watts, a man far ahead of his time. Speech: Alan Watts - What is Wrong With O...

"At the still point, there the dance is." —T. S. Eliot

Women cannot paint well, despite making up the majority of art students, according to one of Europe’s pre-eminent post-war artists.

This text is a transcription of a talk given at Azania House, Bremner Building, University of Cape Town, April 2015. I want to thank you all for this wonderful invitation to be a part of the conver...

Lawsuit seeks damages for individuals, spouses and children of people infected with STDs through US government program in 1940s and 1950s

The Inuits are indigenous people that inhabit the arctic regions of Canada, the United States and Greenland and throughout history their very lives have been dependent on being able to correctly forecast weather.... and they are warning NASA and the world that global warming isn't the cause of what we are seeing with extreme weather, earthquakes an...

PBS Idea Channel smarty Mike Rugnetta attempts to deconstruct the definition of knowledge, and how the internet fits into our notion of it.

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John Holcroft is a British illustrator very well known who has worked for BBC, Reader's Digest, The Guardian and Financial Times among others. However, what makes him famous are not his employers, but the brilliant satire reflected on his illustrations and his particular retro style.

Everytime Holcroft publishes some new drawings, they inevitably go viral and spread all over the net. His style is based in the 50's advertisements and that characteristic