Her abrupt ascendancy to the top of the political pile was ground-breaking but is Julia Gillard really what we’ve been waiting for: Australia’s first foreign-born, unmarried, atheist, ranga, female prime minister?

Podcasting! For your aural pleasure: Palin and Fox, Arrested Development on the big screen, racism on TV and why it can kill you, sex robots, the commandments, and the death of Gumby creator Art Clokey.

The Vatican’s newspaper has published God’s definitive Best Rock Albums Ever. The list includes freaks, heathens, drug-addicts, criminals, a witch, and a dude who named his band after a strap-on dildo.

Salt-N-Pepa are not the first band to accept God as their newest member. But as they serve up a modified take on their earthy hits at the Good Vibrations Festival, we hope their feminist message remains unscathed.

People in life-threatening situations often experience visits from "guardian angels", also known as Shackleton's "third man". It happens very often, according to John Geiger vexing new book.

The world has told emos to cheer up since the nineteenth century. We talk to Craig Schuftan about his latest book Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone! and why teens are ripe for Romanticism.

God let this secular humanist spread the good word on morals and ethics for 105 years. Damn!