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UK issues in Humanism and in Secular thought
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It can be dangerous to visit the USA
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NYT May 14, 2008 Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face By NINA BERNSTEIN He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman university. She was “a totally Virginia girl,” as she puts it, raised across the road from George Washington’s home. Their romance, sparked... more »
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Ten Plus One Facts About Hospice
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1. Palliative Care means that a dying person is given care that is not curative; that will not sustain life. It will however, ensure that what life remains can be lived in comfort and without pain. 2. Hospice may be a place but is definitely a “way”. It’s a method of offering palliative care to the terminally ill. It can take place in a... more »
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Science and religion?
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NYT May 13, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist The Neural Buddhists By DAVID BROOKS In 1996, Tom Wolfe wrote a brilliant essay called “Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died,” in which he captured the militant materialism of some modern scientists. To these self-confident researchers, the idea that the spirit might exist apart from the body is just ridiculous. Instead, everything... more »
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Breast feeding helps raise verbal IQ
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Breast-feeding raises children's IQs, study says Children whose mothers took part in a program that encouraged the practice had higher verbal scores than children in a control group, a large study finds. By Denise Gellene Los Angeles Times Staff Writer May 6, 2008 Increased breast-feeding during the first months of life appears to... more »
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Detecting subtle brain injuries that result from motor accidents
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New MRI Technique Detects Subtle But Serious Brain Injury ScienceDaily (May 13, 2008) - A new technique for analyzing magnetic resonance imaging data, developed by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center, can reveal serious brain injury missed by current tests and help predict a patient's degree of recovery.... more »
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Einstein on religion
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James Randerson, science correspondent The Guardian, Tuesday May 13 2008 "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source of endless debate between believers and non-believers wanting to claim the greatest scientist of the 20th century as their own.... more »
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Blasphemy to be made impossible in England
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I see that the Blasphemy laws are to be repealed in the UK: [link] I think that this is a good move, for the reasons given. There is an unfortunate side to it, though. If you enjoy blasphemy, you can't indulge in it in the UK anymore, you have to travel to places where... more »
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The mystery of the Holy Shroud
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The Holy Shroud in Turin is and remains a riddle, as honestly recognised by the manager of the most important of the three laboratories which analysed the cloth by using the carbon 14. This manager acknowledged a serious mistake in the dating. The only means we have at disposal to solve the riddle is that of... more »
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An American view of british Conservativism
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NYT May 9, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist The Conservative Revival By DAVID BROOKS For years, American and British politics were in sync. Reagan came in roughly the same time as Thatcher, and Clinton’s Third Way approach mirrored Blair’s. But the British conservatives never had a Gingrich revolution in the 1990s or the Bush victories thereafter. They got... more »
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The English
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According to the latest Rough Guide edition: England is a nation of "overweight, alcopop-swilling, sex- and celebrity-obsessed TV addicts". Sounds pretty accurate to me, although there might be a couple of other suitable, equally complimentary descriptives that could be added ;-) Article on the BBC site:... more »
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