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Monday, March 8, 2010

Technology and Happiness

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My friend Matt discusses the interesting relationship between Technology, Excellence and Flow on human happiness. He offers a lot of good in...

Irreconciliation

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Yuval Levin at NRO clarifies a bit of confusion that surrounds the current debate over what's called "Obamacare." The House o...

More on Son of Hamas

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Over the weekend I read a book I talked about a little bit last week. The book is titled Son of Hamas and is written by Mosab Yousef the e...
Saturday, March 6, 2010

Does a Multiverse Help?

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Last Wednesday we discussed the weakness of the weak anthropic principle as a reply to the argument for a designer of the universe based on...

City of Angels

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For those who remember the horror stories about urban crime coming out of Los Angeles a decade or so ago Timothy Egan's post at Opinion...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Strings, Extra Dimensions, and Other Worlds

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This is the follow-up to the Leonard Susskind video on string theory. In this segment Susskind explains how it is that string theory allows ...

Are There Secular Reasons?

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Last November I mentioned a fine book by Hunter Baker titled The End of Secularism which explained how the project to secularize the publi...

Another Non-Missing Link

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Eventually the media will get burned by over-enthusiastic scientists enough times to make them chary about hyping every new fossil primate a...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Porn for Bibles

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Somewhere in this story there's a telling moral. Atheists on the San Antonio campus of the University of Texas are encouraging Christian...

Son of Hamas

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There's a fascinating story in Haaretz about the son of one of the founders of Hamas who converted to Christianity ten years ago, serve...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Confusion among the Skeptics

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Freddie at L'Hote is an atheist who takes his fellow non-believers to task for being so religious about their unbelief. What he says re...

String Theory

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In this video Leonard Susskind, one of the premier theoretical physicists working in string theory, explains what string theory is. It's...

WAP

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The Weak Anthropic Principle has been offered as a rebuttal to the astonishing level of fine-tuning we find in the physical forces, constant...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Just Friends

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Among the numerous responses to last week's posts on C.S. Lewis' thoughts on the nature of friendship in his The Four Loves (see On...

The Tea Party at One Year Old

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It was roughly one year ago that Rick Santelli went on a rant on CNBC against government bailouts and called for another tea party like the ...
Monday, March 1, 2010

Cox on Time

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Those readers who enjoyed Brian Cox's discussion of the Large Hadron Collider might also appreciate this series of videos on the nature ...

Census Snoops

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2010 is a census year and the Census Bureau will be soliciting information about you this year that they have never sought before and which ...

The Anti-Obama

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One name being mentioned with increasing frequency when the talk turns to the question of who the GOP candidate might be in 2012 is Mitch Da...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

More on the Dubai Assassination

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Those following the mysterious tale of the assassination of the Hamas terrorist leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month may be intere...

Over the Cliff

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Ramirez offers his perspective on why Republicans don't want to go along with Democrats on health care: Pretty funny. RLC