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CNN and the rest of the cable news networks have dropped the war in Iraq like a hot potato and are running overflow coverage of Laci …
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In “The Shape of Things to Come” Daniel H. Pink argues that the bell curve or normal distribution discovered during the …
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Sheldon Pacotti, writing in Salon, makes some connections between languages, education, freedom, surveillance, and new technologies …
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I just finished watching two intriguing programs on television that mix, at least in my mind, notions about religion and politics. The …
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Ty Burr, film critic for the Boston Globe, has a lengthy essay about the changing perceptions of what makes a film a classic. He …
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So I avoid commenting on the war by commenting on religion, in particular the points of view of Richard Dawkins and Fred Clark of …
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Interesting report on the strident atheism of Francis Crick and James Watson the discoverers of DNA. My favorite anecdote is this: The …
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Lee Harris and Robert Dreyfuss have written intriguing articles about the world historical gamble that George Bush and his …
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I was at my local philosophy club last night for a discussion of ‘the meaning of power.’ One of the common descriptions of …
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