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Fray Luis de León, the great humanist scholar of the Spanish Golden Age, one of the sages of Salamanca University, was condemned by the Inquisition for translating the Song of Solomon and spent four years in prison before being allowed to return to his lectern, where he began his first lecture with the phrase, "Decíamos ayer": "As we were saying yesterday..."
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- Quote of the day
- Trust Enbridge with pipeline across BC?
- Data 'screaming that the world is warming'
- Arctic ship find: Inuit history plus high tech
- 10,000 year-old 'Woman of the Palms'
- US in Iraq: Radioactive Fallujah
- The Afghanistan Papers, thanks to Wikileaks
- Monarch journey 'even more spectacular'
- Why depression is black and grey
- Map of the day: Global forest heights
- US in Iraq: nothing new here, but when's the trial?
- Himalaya glacier melt rate 'extreme'
- Help choose BP's new logo
- Military domestic violence: 'caseload has soared'
- Map of the day: Marine dead zones
- Glacier breaks up, retreats overnight
- Way to go, Argentina!
- 2010 in running for warmest year yet
- World Map of Touristyness
- One Hundred Fears of Solitude
- Camelot: More than a model
- The Mud Maid
- 'There is a structure to panic'
- Fossils of earliest-known multicellular life
- 'We live on the edge of the world'
- Portrait of the oldest light
- No justice, no peace
- Map of the day: Water Security
- Tibetans quickly evolved for high altitudes
- Moose and Bear
- O Canada
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The Crown of the Sun
Photo: Hartwig Luethen
Earth links
- Arctic ozone layer hits record low
- Natural disasters will increase
- Different records, same warming trend
- 2010 Greenland ice sheet record melt
- Global warming mapped
- India: 200,000 farmer suicides
- Solar activity not linked to global warming
- EIA projects climate catastrophe
- 1 billion people will lose their homes
- 2010 'tied for hottest year'
- Warmer Arctic probably permanent
- Glacier found to be deeply cracked
- Weather-related disasters are here to stay, say scientists
- Massive ice island breaks off Greenland
- Alberta scientists discover largest bed of dinosaur bones
- Arctic microbes bolster hopes of life on Mars
- Arctic sea ice retreat worst in thousands of years
- Meteor storm altered Earth's climate
- Oceans’ fish could disappear in 40 years: UN
- Phosphate trigger for evolutionary explosion
- How mammoths survived Arctic cold
- Mammoths resurface in Siberia
- Chile quake shortened our days
- Giant Antarctic iceberg could affect global ocean circulation
- Humans Behind Rising Seas
- World's glaciers continue to melt at historic rates
- Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels
- Canadian Arctic ice outpacing global melt average
- Giant ocean covered Mars
- CO2 link to Antarctic ice cap origin
- Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans
- Building block of life on comet
- Oldest dinosaur burrow discovered
- Arctic sea ice thinning 'dramatic'
- Arctic stores twice carbon in atmosphere
- Could Life Be 12 Billion Years Old?
- Climate change divides the Alps
- Microbe Wakes After 120,000 Years
- Fish feel pain much like humans
- Global warming could create 200 million refugees by 2050
- Grey whales make stealthy home in waters off Vancouver
- Rare blue whales returning to BC
- Key role of forests 'may be lost'
- Climate change hitting entire Arctic ecosystem
- Overfishing to Wipe out Bluefin Tuna in 3 Years
- When life as we know it became possible on Earth
- Life pressures hastening human evolution
- Three Mile Island revelations raise doubts re: nuclear safety
- Scientist: Warming Could Cut Population to 1 Billion
- Carbon emissions creating acidic oceans not seen since dinosaurs
- Climate change accelerates water hunt in US West
- Sea levels to surge at least a metre by 2100: Scientists
- Songbirds fly 3 times faster than expected
- Some climate damage already irreversible
- Diminishing Days for Emperor Penguins
- Global Warming Effects to Last 1,000 Years
- Global warming kills old-growth forests at stunning rate
- Mars water, methane suggest life
- Video: Everest's Melting Glaciers
- Sea absorbing less CO2
- Milky Way much bigger than thought
- CO2 cuts have failed: Time for 'Plan B'
- Dark energy expands, contracts universe
- Prairie meteorites: pre-solar system
- Canada's lakes suffer 'osteoporosis'
- Alberta asteroid-impact only 1,100 years old
- Geologists: Rocks evolve too
- Concealed Glaciers Discovered On Mars At Mid-latitudes
- Today’s unsettling comparison to ‘the great dying’
- Atmospheric Brown Cloud Report
- Light shed on secrets of dark matter
- Organic bees may be immune to mysterious disorder
- 3-D atlas of 1 million galaxies
- 1 in 4 mammals at risk of extinction
- Where Life Found Refuge During Mass Extinction
- Earth's oldest rocks found in Quebec
- The Battle for the North Pole (interactive map)
- Climate Time Machine (interactive)
Other links
- Music rewards brain like sex or drugs
- Women's tears lower testosterone in men
- Vegetarians Are Happier
- Link between pesticides and ADHD
- Secretly funding the climate denial machine
- Canada's asbestos time bomb
- Oil sands polluting waterways
- Oil thirst ’set to outstrip supply’
- Parkinson's: The Pesticide Link
- Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use
- Same-Sex Behavior in Nearly All Animals
- Oldest depiction of the female form
- Darker the skin, less you fit
- Revealed: the face of the first European
- Conservatives Live in a Different Moral Universe
- 1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India
- Docs not spotting Asperger's in girls
- High-Fructose Corn Syrup = Mercury
- Decriminalize pot, destabilize gangs
- Political winds shift in favor of legalized pot
- Mexican ambassador: US should take marijuana legalization seriously
- Ten years after Nunavut's creation, worldwide demand for its rocks
- Legalize drugs to stop violence
- Climate chief Stern: give up meat to save the planet
- Canada envy, amid a global meltdown
- Worthwhile Canadian initiative
- Chemicals feminizing males
- Natural selection gives way to human selection
- High cancer rate near oil sands
- Breast cancer risk, HRT link
- Powerlines linked to leukemia in BC
- More Microbe Than Human
- Canada most welcoming country
- 2025: the end of US dominance
- 2,700-year-old marijuana stash found
- Medical atrocities didn't end with Nazis
- Tar sands leak 11m litres/day (pdf)
- A friendly note to America from a Canadian: Quit saying you're the 'envy of the world'!
- Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply
- How the Plunge Protection Team killed the free market
- Coupling of science and religion
- Humanity has moved to 'ecological deficit': WWF report
- Maybe the rich are the problem
- Men invest with more than brains
- The Political Compass
War Links
- Map: Canada's Afghan dead
- Don't extend Afghan mission: 60% of Canadians
- Go back to peacekeeping; Canadians tell DND in increasing numbers
- Scientists: 'engineered explosive' in WTC dust
- Surging into a perfect storm?
- The Afghan Scam
- Behind the lines with the Taliban
- Hormone limits aggression
- End Afghan mission early: Poll
- Who are the Taliban? The Afghan War Deciphered
- US Bin-Ladin hunt phony
- A My Lai a Month
- The Cold War's Missing Atom Bombs
- In Afghanistan, the Loudest Sound Is the Clock Ticking
- The War Briefing: PBS Frontline
- Journey into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
- Response to 9/11 'huge overreaction': ex-MI5 chief
- Afghanistan: Spiral of doom
- How the US Army turned me into a terrorist
- War on Taliban cannot be won: UK army chief
- Delta Force officer: US officials stopped plans to kill bin Laden
- Mission Creep: US Military Presence Worldwide (interactive map)
- Jody Aliesan
- álíesan: to loosen, set free, deliver, liberate, redeem, release, ransom, absolve (Old English).
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