The fate of Polemic, one of Slovakia's most popular bands, can be compared to that of the world-famous American band No Doubt. Both started out playing ska - the music formed in Jamaica in the 1960s ...

In case you missed it over the weekend, Rolling Stone’s rock-star journalist Matt Taibbi is at it again: ranting and raving against Wall Street, against a financial system that he is wholeheartedly ...

Our brain produces new neurons throughout our lives. Or does it? The importance of this question stems from the fact that “adult neurogenesis”, were it to exist, may someday allow us to repair a ...

Polemic seems to have gone the way of the typewriter and the soda fountain. The word was once associated with the best practitioners of the form: Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Rebecca West.

IN literary criticism, polemic is short-lived, and no other essay form becomes as quickly obsolete as an unfavorable review. If the work under attack is valuable, it survives adverse comment. If it is ...

Reader WH sent along a link to this CBC Fifth Estate documentary -- "The Denial Machine" -- about the scientists and industries working to obfuscate basic global warming science. You can watch the ...