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Apologies for the problems you may have noticed with our Facebook feed. Hopefully these are now fixed and updates will once again appear on our Facebook page. Do take a look at Julian Rivers' latest Cambridge Paper on same-sex marriage if you haven't already, and let us know what you think.Thank you...
Guy Brandon Posted: 22 October 2012 No comments
Keywords: Science & Technology,
Cyber-Bullying: The Latest Evidence
We have noted previously that statistics on bullying are hard to obtain and that the Commons Education and Skills Committee has identified two types of bullying of particular concern: cyber-bullying and prejudice-driven bullying. The following is the latest research on the former from academics here...
John Hayward Posted: 3 August 2011 No comments
Keywords: Education, Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology,
Holiday Reading: God According to God by Gerald Schroeder
'When we get beyond a superficial understanding of the tangible, material world, we find that the physical and the metaphysical make up a single reality, one world viewed from two vastly different perspectives.' (Gerald Schroeder, God According to God, p.2) The MIT-trained physicist and applied theology...
John Hayward Posted: 2 August 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Science & Technology,
Belief in Doctors?
Dr Richard Scott is appealling against a formal warning from the General Medical Council for suggesting a patient could find solace in Jesus, following a complaint made by the patient's mother. The GMC's guidance is clear that doctors should not normally discuss their personal beliefs with patients 'unless...
John Hayward Posted: 23 May 2011 3 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Health, Science & Technology,
Sexting: Exposed
I recently mentioned a local teenage girl who has attempted to commit suicide three times as a direct consequence of feeling humiliated after a former boyfriend made public a 'revealing' photo that she had given to him. Figures published by the charity Beatbullying last August revealed that almost two...
John Hayward Posted: 8 February 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Science & Technology, Sex & Families,
Children's Screen Habits
Next Monday, the Minister for Culture, Ed Vaizey is meeting with British Internet Service Providers to discuss how the industry can better support parents and help them ensure that their children cannot access pornography. One proposal, suggested by the MP Claire Perry in her Adjournment Debate, is an...
John Hayward Posted: 2 February 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, Sex & Families,
The Future of Food and Farming
A new government report today warns (again) that the world is going to need 40 per cent more food, 30 per cent more water and 50 per cent more energy by the middle of the century. In 'The Future of Food and Farming' Sir John Beddington, the government's chief scientist, says that every means to improve...
John Hayward Posted: 24 January 2011 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, The Environment,
Word of the Day: Neuropsychopharmacology
So, scientists have made progress in their development of drugs that could 'make us more clever,' but what are the ethical implications? This is what Denis Alexander said in our 2009 Cambridge Paper, Enhancing humans or a new creation?:'Cognitive enhancements span the complete gamut of categories, from...
John Hayward Posted: 20 January 2011 No comments
Keywords: Science & Technology,
Unreality Abortion Show: Vote Now?!
It seems like a sick joke, but a US couple, Pete and Alisha Arnold, are letting the public vote on whether or not they should keep their baby, currently nicknamed Wiggles and shown in the ultrasound here at 16 weeks. Perhaps it is just the logical next step in the recent development of voyeaurism, reality...
John Hayward Posted: 19 November 2010 1 comment
Keywords: Health, Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
Hawking: Not Needed for Creation
Still jetlagged from a summer in California, I am intrigued by the intense media interest in the latest book by British physicist Stephen Hawking and his supposedly troubling pronouncement that 'God was not needed to create the Universe'. I hope it won't be considered too facetious to wonder which newspaper...
John Hayward Posted: 3 September 2010 8 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Science & Technology,
robin williams on 7 Jun 2012
I find the use of technology in spreading the word of GOD very useful. We have been doing so by the use...
Jay on 8 Jun 2011
I believe that this is an issue that will not go away anytime soon. Many people are ignorant to the medium...
Cecilia C on 2 Jun 2011
I share much of John Hudson's comments on this case. I wonder if the doctor concerned should have obtained...