An article about the history of suicide missions (early Christians' martyrdom, Kamikazes, bombers in Iraq, ...).

Bloody April in Iraq: 135 car-bombings in last month alone, 67 of which were suicide attacks.

An interesting debate in the online forum Edge about gender and science: Elizabeth Spelker vs Steven Pinker.

40 reasons do dislike Star Wars.

Bush's EUA gives money for Aids programmes abroad, but with strings attached: there must be policies of no abortion, no birth control, no prostitution and abstinence-based sex education. Brazil has resisted the pressure, turning down the money. Brazil has a very good AIDS programme of its own and can afford to do that, unfortunately the situation is much different in most of the developing world.

Tate Modern is about to turn 5! one of my favourite places to visit in London.

An article about recent research showing that acupuncture really works.