Three short reports – Anti-science threatens the world; Militants target churches in Nigeria; President Obama apologises for Koran burning
Anti-science threatens the world
The New Zealand Times – reports on the current meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and fears that current anti-science campaigns will destroy the world:
Science is “under siege,” top academics and educators were warned repeatedly at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting as they were urged to better communicate their work to the public.
Scientific solutions are needed to solve global crises — from food and water shortages to environmental destruction — “but the public now does not understand science,” leading US climate change expert and Nasa scientist James Hansen told the meeting.
“We have a planetary emergency, and very few people recognise that.” The theme of the five-day meeting, attended by some 8,000 scientists from 50 countries, was “Flattening the world: Building a global knowledge society.”
More at – http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2012/02/21/anti-science-threatens-the-world
Militants target churches in Nigeria
Christian Today – Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building Nigeria on Sunday, two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians and blinded seven in a church bombing in nearby Madalla.
Compass Direct News says Sunday’s blast in Suleja, in front of Christ Embassy church during morning worship, injured five people, one seriously, according to sources. Compass reports the bomb, planted in a parked car, was left by suspected members of Boko Haram, which seeks to impose sharia (Islamic law) throughout Nigeria, and authorities arrested some members of the sect the same day.
More at – http://www.christiantoday.com/article/militants.target.churches.in.nigeria/29371.htm
President Obama apologises for Koran burning in Afghanistan
Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9101022/Barack-Obama-apologises-for-Koran-burning.html