The H wordScience and scepticismSkeptics and scepticismShould we be concerned that some Skeptics do not seem to understand the meaning of scepticism?I was somewhat disconcerted to see something completely erroneous appear in Guardian Science's own Notes & Theories blog. It was this:
A word about the distinction between sceptics and skeptics. A generic "sceptic" questions accepted beliefs. In this way, we have "man didn't go to the moon" sceptics. (Some people won't believe anything.
OpinionIsrael-Gaza war This article is more than 3 months oldStanding up for Palestine is also standing up to save the west from the worst of itselfThis article is more than 3 months oldMoustafa BayoumiOne can be opposed to Hamas, as I am, and to the indiscriminate bombing and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, as I am
What are you doing to stop the imminent ethnic cleansing of Gaza? This is a serious question.
SuccessionChoice of baby blue child’s top for Kieran Culkin’s character Roman Roy unlikely to have been accidental
Warning: contains spoilersAfter all the £2,400 baseball caps and £5,250 leather jackets, who was expecting the fashion item to cause the biggest furore in the Succession finale to be an £11 T-shirt from the mass US retail chain Walmart? And yet, here we are.
The baby blue T-shirt with three stripes on its sleeves is worn by Roman Roy, played by Kieran Culkin, when he hides out at his mother’s beach house in Barbados.
FranceSupermodel found dead in ParisFrench police have confirmed that a supermodel has been found dead near the Garigliano bridge in the River Seine.
Police said the body of Katoucha Niane, 47, who was from Guinea and based in France, was found yesterday. She disappeared in January.
Dectetives are investigating the possibility she fell into the river when she returned home to her houseboat, moored on the Seine near the Alexandre III bridge, after a party.
Top 10sFictionThe long, nuclear-armed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace – which inspired some brilliant literature
What do you think of when you think of the cold war? The answer may depend on how old you are. For the young, it is history; for the elderly it is one of the times they endured in a whole century of extraordinary violence and upheaval; for the generations in between it’s a bit of both.