Cultural commentary,
Salvo style.
Also the place to get updates about the upcoming events and issues of Salvo.
Salvo style.
Also the place to get updates about the upcoming events and issues of Salvo.
Signs of the Times - The Salvo blog
Signs of the Times - The Salvo blog
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Every time you emit carbon, Al Gore kicks a polar bear out of an airplane.
Signs of the Times - The Salvo blog
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In the Shrapnel section of Salvo's last issue, there was a fascinating section titled "Pre-Crime control", about the British policy of retaining DNA samples of innocent children in an attempt to prevent crime. Echoing those comments, the UK's Immigration Minister,...
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From the London Evening Standard. It never occurred to me that IVF was especially being sought by older women, older, that is, significantly, than the "toy boys" they've married. Ms Gold, 48, and her partner, City trader Dan Cunningham, 31,...
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Last month PBS aired a two hour special on The Botany of Desire by science writer, Michael Pollan. Pollan set out to explore how four particular plants have evolved to satisfy human desires: the apple, which evolved to satisfy our...
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From the Sunday Times: Charles Darwin and the children of the evolution . . . Much of the evidence remains sealed under a court order issued to minimise the risk of copycat killings, but from those documents that are in...
Signs of the Times - The Salvo blog
"Thank you, sir, for saving the reality."
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We have been very busy getting the next issue of Salvo together. I will be posting details on it soon. In the meantime, enjoy this version of The Matrix done by a Russian acting group in the style of silent...
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Climate change: Time to eat Fido? A startling new book claims that pet dogs are more harmful to the environment than SUVs—should we listen? Dogs cause more damage to our planet than SUVs, according to a controversial new book, Time...
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I don't make this stuff up.
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Swine Flu Fears Lead to Girl-on-Girl Brawl on D Train After a rough spring that saw as many as 20 to 40 percent of New Yorkers exposed to H1N1, subway riders have resorted to defending themselves with their fists. And...
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In Great Britain, the Committee of Advertising Practice and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice have embarked on a 12-week consultation to determine whether abortion facilities should be allowed to advertise on television. The consultation is an attempt to respond...
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Wormwood, meet Swillpit.
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Dear Swillpit, Don't write to me whining about your difficulties weaning the creature off Him. This work is rarely easy or quick. Indeed, it may take years of patient conditioning to get him to the event horizon of Hell. But...
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ho•mo•pho•bi•a (h'm-f'b-) n. 1. Fear of or contempt for lesbians and gay men. 2. Behavior based on such a feeling. History: Coined by clinical psychologist George Weinberg, the word “homophobia” first appeared in Time magazine in 1969. Weinberg later popularized...
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Remember tamaguchi? Now apply that concept to dating.
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There is a new simulation dating game called "Love Plus" available on the Nintendo DS. I see how this sort of thing could be addicting . . . after you come to terms with the fact that you are sim...
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This morning the Guardian reported that this evening's summit in Brussels will likely be the first occasion in which the subject of Tony Blair's candidacy to be Europe's first president is broached. Having lived under Blair's regime in England for...
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Ever wonder why those naturalistic explanations of the universe are ultimately so unsatisfying? Professor Bob Berman has something to say on the matter. [W]hat existed before the Big Bang? I get that question a lot from students, and I'll admit...
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Searching for the historical Darwin
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Salvo columnist Denyse O'Leary reviews Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory Of Intelligent Evolution by Michael Flannery in the current issue of Touchstone. An excerpt can be found below. Michael Flannery’s Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory of Intelligent Evolution (Erasmus, 2009) focuses on...
