Religion in the Workplace: a Review

Via George’s Blawg, I found this very long review of Religion in the Workplace.
The thing that makes this article unique is that it contains quite a few case studies. Some of them are reprehensible actions by a company ( only beginning to enforce a no-headscarf law after 9/11), and some are examples where I [...]

Weekly WTF #2: student tasered for asking a question

Seriously. I have no idea WTF is going on in this country.
“Police tasered a University of Florida student yesterday in Gainesville….A minute or so into what became a combative diatribe, Meyer’s microphone was turned off and officers began trying to physically remove him from the auditorium. Meyer flailed his arms, yelling as police tried to [...]

Cyprian honeybees in the news

This is an interesting little story that I noticed today, that discusses an alternative strategy for bees to try to deal with one of their predators, hornets.
Papachristoforou et al.: “Smothered to death: Hornets asphyxiated by honeybees.” Publishing in Current Biology, September 2007, R705-R796. www.current-biology.com
Asian honeybees have been shown to kill hornets by ‘thermo- balling’, in [...]