Daily Archives: November 19, 2008

Google Now Hosts the LIFE Magazine Photo Archive

Literally millions of photographs from the 1860s forward. Explore the archive here.

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Brave New Old World?: With DNA Extraction Technologies, Neanderthals and Mammoths Could Roam the Earth Again

So says the NY Times today. Money quote: [DNA extraction] technology could be applied to any other extinct species from which one can obtain hair, horn, hooves, fur or feathers, and which went extinct within the last 60,000 years. Though … Continue reading

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“Lot’s Wife” (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)

  I am the salty sea your once   amphibious daughters   called home,   and all my vital organs are here,   in Sodom.   Mother, memories, my heart.   They are packed in this place,   like loaves … Continue reading

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What the Obama Era Feels Like to Me

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Mental Health Break

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NOVA’s “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” is a Must See Documentary for Those Interested in Learning About Contemporary Archeology’s Take on the Bible

I just watched, on PBS, the premier of NOVA’s documentary, The Bible’s Buried Secrets, and I highly recommend it. The program, through interviews with some of the most well-known biblical archeologists in the world, surveys the grand scope of the … Continue reading

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