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Comic relief (cross-posted everywhere)
I would feel honored if my readers would copy the address of this page you look at and paste it HERE an' see what they end up with.
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I'm sorry...'Ostensibly the primary political argument against strong religious beliefs is that they threaten civic peace; for this reason, Cass Sunstein argues in The Partial Constitution (1999) that America’s founding document decrees “a secular liberal democracy in a way that is intended to minimize religious tension.” He thus urges the liberal ( Read more... ) -
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Popular Science:
"Nicolelis and his team are confident that in five years they will be able to build a robot arm that can be controlled by a person with electrodes implanted in his or her brain. Their chief focus is medical -- they aim to give people with paralyzed limbs a new tool to make everyday life easier. But the success they and other ( Read more... ) -
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All in all, I din't really like this article. The author's arrogance grated on me from sentence one.
However I was quite interested in the paragraphs about Peter Pan:
"When the writer J.M.Barrie was six his older brother died in a skating accident. The brother remained in memory as a boy of thirteen who would never grow up -- and thus was born ( Read more... ) -
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Okay. So someone correct me if I've understood the facts wrong ( Read more... ) -
Yesterday's news
The media confuses me. Does nothing interesting happen these days? At work, I have to explain the mercury in tuna issue constantly, as every news network in the world seems to be reporting misinformation on it. And I further have to explain that not only is their information faulty, it's flippin' old. There has been no change in what the FDA ( Read more... ) -
DUH!!!
Regarding the whole gay marriage controversary goin' on now, Rick Santorum came out on tv today and made the brilliant comment that the reason for marriage is to have children, and the ideal parents for a child are a man and a woman. Due to this, gay marriages should not be recognized ( Read more... )
