Daily Archives: December 9, 2009

Life and Metaphor: Are We on a Journey or in a Piece of Music?

Maybe both?

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The CERN Large Hadron Collider: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing?

The New York Times today provides an interesting “history-in-a-nutshell” perspective on the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC): Particle colliders get their magic from Einstein’s equation of mass and energy. The more energy that these machines can pack into their little … Continue reading

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Paul Kurtz Gives an Answer to This Question: Is There Such a Thing as an Atheist Fundamentalist?

Curiously, in the most recent dead tree edition of Free Inquiry (Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010), the 84 year old Paul Kurtz, the kindly rational father of Prometheus Books and the Center for Inquiry in Buffalo, doesn’t exactly say no to the … Continue reading

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Unhappy New Year? The Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program Looms over 2010

Noah Pollak, at Commentary today, on how the tensions over the Iranian nuclear weapons program might play out over the next year: David Ignatius’s account of a war game involving the United States, Israel, the Europeans, and Iran (and Gary … Continue reading

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