Republicans on race

It's as I've always said: they're our heads, let us decide about chopping them off.

My hometown is burning, unfortunately not the parts of it I'd love to see go up.

During the Gulf War, 500,000 Iraqis were killed by the US and its allies. The total population of Iraq before the war was 20 million.

Vampire bats offer new hope for stroke patients.

Juvenile trigger fish, which grow up to 50cm, and which aggressively attack humans, have been found in Cairns Inlet, on the Great Barrier Reef. They apparently entered via unchecked vessels.

The fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is being released on June 21, 2003 in Britain, US, Canada, and Australia. That’s a Saturday - the timing is specifically designed to not cause school truancy. The last HP book sold over 330,000 copies on the first day of its release in July 2000, in England alone. It was the fastest-selling book ever, with sales of over 2 million worldwide.

Thursday 2 January 2003, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio: Richard Gould, an anthropologist at Brown University, discusses a finding by his team of anthropologists that the fine debris over Lower Manhattan after Sept. 11, 2002, was the pulverized remains of human beings.

Not to miss: postmodernists in Lego.

Always excellent (Mark Jenkins on pop music, etc.) (archived)

Not bad: recycling the Web

Some bird features for you:
(begins "Clowns in Kabul...")
You can also find this program here
listen to program of Monday Jan 6, 2003

A whole bird workup