Another species driven to extinction — all three mangarahara cichlids known are male.

Cutting down the Amazon rainforest to plant soya will be self-defeating: it will change the local climate, making agriculture less productive.

Rating states for their "business climate" has no economic validity; it is just right-wing propaganda to pressure for deregulation.

"Transparency" is a two-edged sword when applied to governments and data.

Keep in mind that Obama is also an enemy of transparency, as regards anything the US government does for our "security", up to and including death squads.

I think the proposed European "right to be forgotten" is ok as long as it is limited to databases and does not apply to anyone's works of authorship.

Here's what the ACLU got for a FOIA request for a document stating general policies (not information about any specific case).

A UK lawyer speaks in favor of Stuart Hall, saying the crimes he is accused of are minor and should not be prosecuted at all.

I don't know whether I agree, because I don't know in concrete terms what Hall has been accused of. In the articles in the Guardian, all specifics are hidden behind abstract terms equivalent to "something sexual which is considered nasty". Does that mean rape? Making a pass? Stealing a kiss?