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As reports came in over the course of yesterday, I was struck by how quickly the mind seems to want to clean and polish and wherever possible use prefab mental structures to house a fresh crisis. Many friends used the killings to engage in the tired game of bashing the imbecile Palin again, or…
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The Punjab Governor has been assassinated by one of his own elite force guards. The guard gave himself up and has now claimed on TV that he killed him for the crime of opposing the blasphemy law. The killer already has a hugely popular fan page on FB. His confession is on Youtube already. He…
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“I grew up in a Hindu household where, first of all, the kitchen is considered sacred,” she says. “Everything you’re cooking in it is sacred. And the first portion of the food is always for the gods.””
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“In a 1993 interview on Fresh Air, Nielsen explained how the Naked Gun team — producers-directors-and-writers Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker — initially approached him, as well as Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack, to star in their 1980 disaster-movie spoof, Airplane!”
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New Research on the Time Particle: Though not yet accepted by the larger physics community, he refers to it as the π(the Greek letter pi)T. He is attracting research grants from around the world for his new investigations.
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James K. Galbraith does a great job of giving us all a cram course in fiscal and economic policy.
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Bernie Sanders, Democratic Senator from the State of Vermont in the U.S.A., is a socialist. Is there a war on working families in America? Is our democracy in peril? Is the wealth of this country in the hands of, or under the control of, a relative few? To everyone who has called Barack Obama a…
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A professor friend of mine sends word that one of his students is drawing caricatures of famous historical figures as eggs. I checked out the student's web site, called "Eggs of History," and found the drawings to be delightful. I'm particularly fond of Sir Philip Sidney, Afrika Bambaata, and Django. Roll over, David Levine!
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Razib Choudhry has a very interesting post about the relative decline of Western power (and of "White superiority" in the world. Check it out and give your comments. My own comments are in the comment section of his post..
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<p A fascinating article and discussion in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy in Dawn. Dr Rahman (and others like him) reflect a particular type: the third world scientist who is intelligent, trained in his own specialty, is scientifically productive (700 papers) and yet is almost completely untouched by the narrative of science, rationality and "heroic materialism" which is almost normative in the higher reaches…
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I invite readers to contribute their own Rules of Grammatical in the comment section. Who knows what a wonderful compendium we will create. 01. Considering proper grammar, dangling participles are used to subtly distract the reader from the true horror of split infinitives. 02. There are times when it is acceptable to use a…
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How many different ways can Vatican officials put their pious feet in their mouths before they bother to look in the mirror? Pope Benedict's own past as a member of the Hitler Youth Brigade makes this latest grandiose statement all the more ironic and offensive. The Pope has compared "atheist extremism" to the Nazi tyranny of WWII in a speech given in…
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Hands-On Research is a commendable outreach program for higher education in science. My cousin Rajarshi Roy of the University of MD is one of the directors of this program. He described to me the scope and objectives of this remarkable project. I am very impressed both by the design of the program and the dedication of the participants. A…
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I came across this post at Immanent Frame (via 3 Quarks Daily). It refers to Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East by Isobel Coleman who argues that feminist advances in Islamic nations in the middle east is only possible through arguments found in the religious tenets. One question I get is why is there…
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