EVERY three minutes a child disappears in the UK
“EVERY three minutes a child disappears in the UK. This is a horrifying statistic and everyone in this country should be up in arms about it. But they’re not. In fact most people in Britain have no...
View ArticleVeterinary surgeons say no to the badger cull
“The cull would cause untold suffering to the unfortunate badgers targeted in this massacre, and would result in additional suffering due to resultant ecosystem imbalances. Bovine TB reduction is...
View ArticleSyria
We must help the Syrian people, they have shown unbelievable courage. In this sea of worldwide troubles we must not forget them. Our World: Syria – Descent into Hell www.bbc.co.uk. Sue Lloyd Roberts...
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Click here to stand with Malala Malala’s a 14-year-old girl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education. But she’s alive and we can help her realize her dream of education for...
View ArticleFlowers In The Attic
I recommend this book as a good read, it is a true story about the way patriarchy has traditionally hidden its illegitimate children and the effective powerlessness of their mothers. The story focuses...
View ArticleBlack Friday
I have transferred this from facebook, as I don’t think I have a piece about the atrocities committed against the suffragettes on Black Friday. After this incident, prison and hunger strike, Emmeline...
View ArticleDiscovery Ages Antibiotics 2,000 Years
A chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians showed they were regularly consuming tetracycline, most likely in their beer. The finding is the strongest evidence yet that the art of making...
View ArticleA Short History of Marriage
“Throughout prehistory, most people lived in tribes established through maternal kinship lines, not unlike the mother-bonded groups of elephants, whales, dolphins, and some other mammals. Such bonding...
View ArticleSt lucia is an example of the winter goddess reborn as the new year sun
“Lo! on our threshold there, White-clad, with flame-crown’d hair: Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia. I hear you singing this refrain as I enter your homes on this dark night, bearing my gifts of light for your...
View ArticleAmeratasu (another winter sun goddess tale)
On December 21st, the Winter Solstice, Amaterasu the Japanese sun goddess is reborn. Notice how similar all the goddess stories are, even though they come from different regions of the world. They are...
View ArticleHappy Mothers Night
In his account of the Anglo-Saxon calendar in 725 AD, the Venerable Bede wrote of december the 24th: “And the very night that is sacrosanct to us, these people call modranect, that is, the mothers’...
View ArticleLa Befana
In Italy it is the old lady Befana who flies through the night to bring gifts to the children. Befana’s night is twelfth night, and the children hang up their stockings to receive her presents and...
View ArticleWeedy seadragons
http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/onlinelearningcenter/species/weedy_seadragon1 Short film of mating dance and subsequent male pregnancy .
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