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Daily Archives: August 1, 2009
A Compulsive Blog to Browse
No, not mine. A bookseller posts on the Internet things found in old books. Check it out here. I couldn’t stop perusing the pages. I love the curious contingencies revealed and what the scrappy remains, inserted long ago between the pages of … Continue reading
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Tagged bookmarks, books, history, life, literature, old books, poetry, remains, scrap books, the past, used books
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A Reading of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!”
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Tagged 1860s, Abraham Lincoln, jfk, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, poems, poetry, Robert Kennedy, Walt Whitman
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T. Boone Pickens Scraps Plans for the World’s Largest Wind Farm
The wind farm would have been in Texas, but transmission problems (getting the energy from the plains to where people live) seem to have been an insurmountable barrier to bringing Pickens’s ambitions to fruition. Apparently financing wasn’t going well either. Sad. … Continue reading
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Tagged electricity, energy, energy independence, environment, environmentalism, oil, oil dependency, solar, T. Boone Pickens, wind, wind farms
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Are You in Touch with Your Inner Aquatic Ape?
Scientist Elaine Morgan, now in her 80s, has long been advancing her theory that humans evolved from aquatic apes. She recently gave a talk succinctly defending her views. Is it pseudoscience? She certainly hasn’t persuaded more than a handful of her scientific colleagues. … Continue reading
Quote for a Saturday
Thomas Jefferson: “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” Hat tip to Jonolan.
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Get Sunshine and Take 2000 IU (International Units) of Vitamin D?
Sunshine (a natural source of vitamin D) and supplemental vitamin D appear to be really, really good for you. This today in the Los Angeles Times: Vitamin supplements have been both heralded and hyped over the years, only to ultimately fall … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, diabetes, health, life, los angeles times, summer, sun, sunshine, vitamin D, vitamins, weight loss, yoga
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Unjust State Laws Directed Towards a Faith-Based Minority: Atheists
Pete Soderman, at his blog, calls attention to numerous unjust state laws on the books that discriminate against atheists. Here’s one from North Carolina: Sec. 8. Disqualifications of office. The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First, any person who … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Christianity, free speech, James Dobson, law, maryland, North Carolina, religion, religious discrimination, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity
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Senator Al Franken v. T. Boone Pickens: Remember the Wind Farm Ads—or the Swift Boat Ads?
Wind Farm ads v. Swift Boat ads? Billionaire T. Boone Pickens has recently shifted gears in his political activism, promoting green energy sources (like wind) in ads and at congressional hearings. But Pickens was also a major funder of the Swift … Continue reading
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Tagged al franken, Al Gore, climate change, ecology, George Bush, John Kerry, Politics, T. Boone Pickens, Vietnam, wind, wind farms
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Prometheus Unbound 