“I’m here about your husband, Jason. He was arrested last night, charged with sexual assault.”
I felt my body go numb. The officer continued. “I understand your husband called the police himself.”
He handed me a slip of paper with the phone number of the police station and said I should call right away. Then, quietly, he said, “I think you’d better expect that it was full rape.”
For better, for worse: my husband, the rapist - Shannon Moroney(Source: gu.com)
Will London become the first city with commuter swim lanes?
Always wanted to swim to work! This proposal by Y/N Studio would transform canals into a swimmable network, from Little Venice to Limehouse
Guardian Art and Design have the full story here.
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Nobody likes to queue. It’s long been known that, in fancy restaurants, a handsome tip to the maître d’ can shorten the wait on a busy night. Such tips are quasi-bribes and handled discreetly. No sign in the window announces immediate seating for slipping the host a bank note. But in recent years, selling the right to jump the queue has come out of the shadows and become a familiar practice.
We are moving towards a world where everything is up for sale, from standing in line to the right to pollute – and that’s bad for all of us, says Michael Sandel in this extract from his new book, What Money Can’t Buy
Scientists have filmed what is believed to be the first sighting of an adult white killer whale in the wild. The marine mammal, nicknamed Iceberg and believed to be at least 16 years old, was swimming with its mother and siblings in waters off the Kamchatka peninsula off the far eastern coast of Russia. Fully albino orcas can have weak immune systems and die young, but partial albinos can live into adulthood
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A three-sheet for the 1933 monster movie King Kong in what is known as the “Style A” design, which sold for $244,500 in 1999. This for comparison, is the “Style B” three sheet Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Features
Ahead of a debate on the nature of consciousness at the Royal Institution on Wednesday 7 March – Consciousness: The Hard Problem? – Alok Jha interviewed the protagonists for the Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast: Dr Anil Seth, co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at Sussex University; Professor Chris Frith, professor emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London; and Professor Barry Smith, director of the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
7I make a list of all the things I’d save in a fire and none, apart from my laptop, is worth more than a fiver. The most precious things of all are two disgusting, dirty, ragged toy lions, owned by my son. What would you save if your house was burning down? Life and Style explores the meaning around our most treasured possessions
Several of the so-called new atheists say that 9/11 motivated them to lift the polite silence that surrounded religion and launch their attacks. Islam moved up the agenda and with it religion more generally. But now that faith is out in the open we don’t seem to know what to do with it.Is religion really under threat?
Unlikely animal friendships
From a monkey cuddling a dove to a sheep spending time with an elephant, the book Unlikely Friendships shows the remarkable relationships that can exist between wildly different animals
One reason for the heightened attention being paid to Acta is the recent derailing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Protect IP Act (Pipa) in the US. These bills were, in many ways, more dangerous than Acta – Sopa wanted to alter the DNS, the core of the internet – but the spirit is the same. After winning a round against the US bills, citizens and activists are raring to take on a new challenge. David Meyer writes for Comment is Free on Acta (the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement)
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Thousands gathered in Brazil’s largest cities starting over the weekend and running through tonight to...
