Daily Archives: January 10, 2010

Wanna Live to 100? Dan Buettner Thinks He Knows How

Dan Buettner has been thinking about longevity issues for a long time, and here’s a digest of his ideas via TED TV:

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Accomodationists v. Obnoxionists: Physicist Sean Carroll Coins a New Term in Reply to Those New Atheists Who Call Him a “Faitheist”

For the New Atheists, physicist Sean Carroll suggests the word “obnoxionists”: The irony is that the pro-obnoxious crowd (obnoxionists?) is ultimately making the same mistake as the accommodationist crowd. Namely: blurring the lines between the truth of a claim and … Continue reading

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Santi Tafarella’s Poem, “The Appearance of the Real”

. . . . . . .                                                                                                                                                                 . Beneath a dormant tree in brown eggshell crisp leaves a child found a white branch with a red blossom.                                                                                                                                                        . The branch bent at its middle and the child, to hold … Continue reading

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Evolutionary Biologist Francisco Ayala on Stephen Meyer’s “Signature in the Cell”

Evolutionary biologist, Francisco Ayala of UC Irvine, read Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell (2009), and raises some interesting issues and asks some rather telling questions: The human genome includes about twenty-five thousand genes and lots of other (mostly short) … Continue reading

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Mental Health Break

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Why Evolution Isn’t True? With Tetrapod Tracks Predating Tiktaalik, the Origin of Land Animals Just Got More Perplexing

And the ID people are crowing. What happened? Well, just some tetrapod tracks that are way, way too early in the fossil record—predating even Tiktaalik. Tetrapods, you see, are vertebrates with limbs, but they don’t have fins. Tiktaalik is not even a tetrapod, … Continue reading

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Barack Obama: An Agnostic as President

Someone in office who doubts simple answers. What a relief! I thought this was an interesting quote from a Politico analysis article, and a fair summing up of Barack Obama’s first year as president: “Obama is not a populist. He can’t … Continue reading

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