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God introduces new bird
Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:35:46 -0700 (PDT)
see
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/god_introduces_new_bird ...
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National Poetry Day - one of my favourites
Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:03:25 -0700 (PDT)
There's a wonderful recording of this sung in a Music Hall in the '30s
by a man with a graveyard voice. I've not been able to find it
anywhere. My father had it on a collection of '30s hits that seems to
have disappeared for ever:
LIFE?S A FUNNY PROPOSITION AFTER ALL
Did you ever sit and ponder, sit and wonde ...
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The neural correlates of religious and nonreligious belief
Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:00:28 -0700 (PDT)
The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief
Sam Harris 1,7,10, Jonas T. Kaplan 2, Ashley Curiel 3, Susan Y.
Bookheimer 4,5,6,7,9, Marco Iacoboni 1,4,6,7, Mark S. Cohen 5,6,7,8,9
1 UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, David Geffen School of
Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UC ...
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Adolescent maturity and legal responsibility
Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:39:23 -0700 (PDT)
While adolescents may reason as well as adults, their emotional
maturity lags, says new research
October 7th, 2009 in Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
A 16-year-old might be quite capable of making an informed decision
about whether to end a pregnancy - a decision likely to be made after
due consid ...
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OT: Immigration: The shocking truth about the immigrants who opened
the floodgates
Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:28:14 -0700 (PDT)
Immigration: The shocking truth about the immigrants who opened the
floodgates
The Culture of Critique reviewed by Stanley Hornbeck
In The Culture of Critique, Evolutionary Psychologist Professor Kevin
MacDonald advances a carefully researched but extremely controversial
thesis: that certain 20th century in ...
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The religious case against belief
Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:51:34 -0700 (PDT)
I thought the title of the book interesting and thought it might be of
interest to people who read this newsgroup. See
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/features/religion-religiouscase.html
Lance ...
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Interesting obituary - Professor Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Tue, 6 Oct 2009 01:18:22 -0700 (PDT)
I like this quote particularly:
"
"Freud's contention that 'the myth of Prometheus indicates that to
gain control over fire man had to renounce the homosexually-tinged
desire to put it out with a stream of urine' is not often mentioned
even by his loyal adherents.
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http://ow.ly/sTM4 ...
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THIS IS THE END OF AN ERA !
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 06:15:44 -0700 (PDT)
AND NOW, THEY BELONG TO THE AGES !
http://surftofind.com/pics ...
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The Nobel Prize system needs an overhaul?
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:16:56 -0700 (PDT)
The Nobel Prize system is dated and in desperate need of an overhaul,
a group of top scientists and engineers said today (September 30) in a
letter to the Nobel Foundation.
In their letter, addressed to the foundation's executive director,
Michael Sohlman, the researchers recommend that the awards should be
bro ...
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Cunning use of a living will
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:27:19 -0700 (PDT)
This is an interesting, story:
http://ow.ly/s8eJ
It seems to have implications for euthanasia that are quite
encouraging. ...
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