Random links
- Zimbabwean PM weds under custom permitting polygamy
- He "held a ceremony under Zimbabwe’s 'customary marriage' practice. ... A magistrate said on Friday that Mr. Tsvangirai’s former flame Locardia Karimatsenga had proved she was his wife under the customary marriage practice. A man can have several customary marriages, but if he has wed under the practice is precluded from holding a legal marriage ceremony." It's a bit similar to an American example in which the person in questions argues "his polygamist arrangement is legal because he is legally married only to one woman, and the other marriages are spiritual unions."
- From Ancient Deforestation, a Delta Is Born
- "Humans were tampering with nature long before the Industrial Revolution’s steam and internal combustion engines arrived on the scene. The invention of agriculture around 8,000 years ago, some argue, significantly changed ecosystems as it spread around the globe... millennium-old development along the Danube River in Eastern Europe significantly changed the Black Sea ecosystem and helped create the lush Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine."
- Jane Shepherdson: Why I prefer to hire women — they work harder, can multi-task and they’re passionate
- When discrimination is OK...
- The 'chemputer' that could print out any drug
- "When Lee Cronin learned about the concept of 3D printers, he had a brilliant idea: why not turn such a device into a universal chemistry set that could make its own drugs?" ... looks like 3D printers might also be able to print guns as well.