Deforestation by humans may be responsible for Ebola outbreaks in humans.

A Republican candidate that advocates "abstinence only" as a substitute for sex education ended up with a pregnant teenage daughter.

What do you call people who teach their children "abstinence only"?
Premature grandparents.

The idea of stripping people's names from their data from their histories and passing that around turns out not to work: it is too easy to figure out who they were.

All the more reason why digital systems must not collect people's histories.

Uri Avnery: Israelis for the most part hate Arabs so much that they hardly feel any disgust towards the people among them who kidnaped and burned an Arab teenager.

I suspect that a secondary purpose of the bombing of Gaza is to distract attention from that crime with a bigger crime.

Here's a report from Gaza.

If Palestinians are situating military activities in homes with civilians, that is just as reprehensible as Israel's attacks on those homes. But they can't be launching missiles from homes, and Israel doesn't really need to attack anything except missile launchers.

Indeed, Israel hardly even needs to attack missile launchers. It could slap the missiles away, as it does, and not bother to retaliate, saying, "Are you tired of acting out? Done with your tantrum?" Israel's forbearance would make Hamas look like fools.

But that would not satisfy crowds that shout, "Death to Arabs." And it might create a situation where peace seems reasonable, which is the last thing Netanyahu wants.

New pun judge in space