Tomorrow live at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge looks at China’s cultural and scientific contributions and inventions. Guests: Elizabeth Lawrence and Paul Anderson. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles Shaar Murray rides shotgun. Tomorrow’s Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge is themed around China’s cultural and scientific contributions to the west from inventions such as […]
Smarter than a lot of people I could mention, Kanzi the Bonobo chimp makes tools and considers a witty riposte to George Galloway at the same time. Able to work out how to get to the banana in the box, he can also tell the difference between bad sex etiquette and rape — he just
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O brave new world that has such people, innit? Looks like we are indeed superfluous to requirements. Soon, the super-rich won’t need us for anything any more; not work, our minds, and not even for sex. They have science and technology servicing the onanistic requirements of the Masters of the Universe. Who needs real people
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O brave new world that has such people, innit? Looks like we are indeed superfluous to requirements. Soon, the super-rich won’t need us for anything any more; not work, our minds, and not even for sex. They have science and technology servicing the onanistic requirements of the Masters of the Universe. Who needs real people
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President-elect Barack Obama’s appointment of pugnacious banker Rahm Emanuel as his Chief-of-Staff couldn’t have been more controversial, what with Rahmbo’s volunteer service in the Israel Defence Forces, his support of Bush’s Iraq war, and advocacy of compulsory “universal sevice” for all young Americans. But then Obama nominated New Mexico governor Bill Richardson for commerce secretary,
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Roll over Cheech and Chong. East India Dock Company and HSBC (former Midland Bank), your opium-addled drug-running days in China were 2,500 years too late. The world’s oldest stash of marijuana has been found in a shaman’s tomb in the outlands of China. “The region of China where the tomb is located, Xinjiang, is considered
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