Tag Archives: New Scientist

Ambiguity, Belief, Religion and Terror

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

OK, so today I picked up New Scientist, because I’m interested in gravity, and there was a fairly basic bit on it in there. Nothing very exciting I did not know as it turned out, but New Scientist is always worth a read anyway. There was an article on how engineers form a disproportionate number of rightist and Islamic terrorists – well I hardly thought this was news, the only profile I ever saw for a religious terror suspect a few years back in a book on terrorism said exactly the same thing as this new research. Continue reading →

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Richard Wiseman prefers housework & cookery to nipple clamps & spanking?

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

I could not resist my silliest headline so far – hope i have not offended Professor Wiseman by it, but doubt he will ever see it. He was asked by New Scientist to comment on a piece on the relationship building power of spanking – well S&M generally, but New Scientist is an English publication so it focussed on l’vice anglais – and he came out withsome actually very useful and sensible advice. Continue reading →

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