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Monthly Archives: April 2012
The Man with the Hoe (Millet’s Painting and Markham’s Poem)
In the late 1890s, Edwin Markham was visiting San Francisco and found himself awestruck by Millet’s painting of “The Man with the Hoe” (which now resides as part of the permanent collection of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, if … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, adam's curse, art, edwin markham, Genesis, literature, man with the hoe, millet, poems, poetry
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Jerry Coyne, Dissectheist
At Uncommon Descent there is a contest going on, seeking from readers some new bit of coinage for accurately designating the Jerry Coyne-style atheist (the atheist obsessed with deconstructing and combating religion). I believe I’ve thought of the right word, and submitted it to … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, God, jerry coyne, Jesus, Mohammad, philosophy, religion, science
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Cyborg Lobster Watch: A Remote-Controlled Plane as a Tool for Vision
Some questions: Is an extension of man, man? Where does the self end and our tools begin? And when we look-in on the “flights” of another person’s consciousness, extended and carried via a remote-controlled plane, does that become us as well? Or … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, cyborg lobsters, cyborgs, extensions of man, flight, imagination, lobsters, the self, tools
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Vatican to US Nuns: Shut Up!
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious represents 57,000 nuns in the US, but it has become too feminist for the reactionary hierarchy of the Church at Rome. Here’s the BBC: Vatican officials . . . castigated the group for making some … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholicism, Catholics, feminism, Jesus, Michelle Obama, mitt romney, sexism, women's rights
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Neuroscience for Buddhists: Externalism Nicely Explained
At the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks recounts his experience of having a beer with Riccardo Manzotti, a man who believes that consciousness does not reside in the brain. Monzotti is an externalist who thinks the subject-object split … Continue reading
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Tagged brain, consciousness, externalism, mind, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, science
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The Combative Christopher Hitchens
Deeelushious.
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, Christopher Hitchens, contrarians, liberals, reason, schadenfreude
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Life Found on Mars? Neuropharmacologist and Biologist Joseph Miller is “99 Percent Sure There’s Life” on Mars
The Discovery News website this week is reporting some pretty mind-blowing stuff on whether there is bacterial life on Mars, accompanied by an exciting quote from neuropharmacologist and biologist Joseph Miller (who is at the University of Southern California’s Keck School … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, biology, life on mars, Mars, Medusa, NASA, science, space, UFOs, we are not alone
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Christopher Hitchens’ Advice to Young People
A powerful appeal from Hitchens when he was clearly in decline. Carpe diem. _____ Hitchens would have had his 62nd birthday this past week, and Charlie Rose did a powerful roundtable discussion with four of his closest friends—Salmon Rushdie, Martin … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, aging, atheism, cancer, carpe diem, children, chrisopher hitchens, college, death, life
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Smile Research
How much you smile, and how wide that smile tends to be, may correlate with your lifespan. Really. Here’s researcher Ron Gutman, at a TED conference, discussing what science has discovered about smiling: _____ And here’s the closing scene from … Continue reading
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Tagged fitness, health, longevity, psychology, smiling, woody allen
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Blame Atheists for Ballooning Budget Deficits and Islam’s Growing Clout in Europe?
Maybe. In a fascinating summary, at NewGeography.com, of global demographic research, Joel Kotkin points the finger at Enlightenment secularism for the ballooning budget deficits and low birth rates in industrialized countries: The increasingly perilous shape of public finance in almost all … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, budget deficit, Christianity, europe, Islam, religion, the Enlightenment, Voltaire
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Quantum Dieting: Change Your Measurements, Change Your Life
An article in Seed surveys some recent research on quantum physics’s implications for common sense reality. Here’s the problem: [N]one of us perceives the world as it exists fundamentally. We do not observe the tiniest bits of matter, nor the forces … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, diet, free will, mind, paradox, quantum dieting, quantum physics, science, the body
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