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What do Harvard, MIT, Coursera, and Udacity Have in Common?
Answer: ambitions for offering massively open online courses. MOOCS. That’s what they’re calling them. This is really great news, and certainly puts on display the Internet’s power for good [New York Times]: Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a … Continue reading
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Tagged America, China, Harvard, humanity, India, internet, MIT, technology, the future
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A Muslim Rises to the Existential Occasion, Protecting a Jew from Some “Christians”
A little reminder about making hasty generalizations about people:
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Tagged Christianity, humanity, Islam, Jesus, Jews, Judaism, love, muhammad, Muslims, peace
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A Moses for the 21st Century: Ed Moses
Ed Moses of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California may be leading the world—through nuclear fusion—into a real Promised Land—the Promised Land of an abundant energy future. If you are not already up to speed on what Ed Moses and his team of scientists … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, America, California, ed moses, energy, fusion, humanity, Moses, physics, Prometheus, promised land
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The magnitude-8.8 Chilean quake: what one journalist saw in the immediate aftermath in Talca, 65 miles from the epicenter
According to the AP (February 27, 2010): A journalist emerging into the darkened street scattered with downed power lines saw a man, some of his own bones apparently broken, weeping and caressing the hand of a woman who had died in … Continue reading
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Tagged chile, chile earthquake, death, earthquake, earthquakes, humanity, life, talca
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Reach out and touch someone
Literally. This recently in the New York Times: Students who received a supportive touch on the back or arm from a teacher were nearly twice as likely to volunteer in class as those who did not, studies have found. A sympathetic … Continue reading
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Tagged doctors, friendship, humanity, kindness, life, love, nursing, psychology, teachers, touch
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Raw Footage from Chile in the Aftermath of Its Magnitude 8.8 Earthquake
Saturday morning, February 27, 2010, Santiago, Chile (200 miles from the quake’s epicenter):
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Tagged chile, chile quake, earthquake, human suffering, humanity, quake, seismology, south america
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Chile’s earthquake and a simulation from the National Geographic Channel
Chile had a magnitude-8.8 earthquake early this morning (Saturday, February 27, 2010). Here’s a National Geographic simulation of the damage a major earthquake in Chile is capable of causing:
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Tagged chile, death, earthquake, earthquakes, humanity, suffering, theodicy, tragedy, tsunamis
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Angry at his bank and the IRS, Terry Hoskins smashes a bulldozer into his own $350,000 home!
Talk about an ironic reversal on the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes: you don’t win a big home, you bulldoze it! Terry Hoskins says he’d had enough. This today at AP: Terry Hoskins says he has struggled with the RiverHills Bank over … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, banks, humanity, IRS, labor, metropolis, moloch, recession, terry hoskins, weimar germany
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Mental Health Break
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Tagged 1970s, caring, elton john, humanity, life, love, mental health break, music
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Albert Camus: The Absurd, Rebellion, Freedom, Passion, and Solidarity
Here’s Albert Camus from the “Myth of Sisyphus”: “I derive from the absurd three consequences: my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the sheer activity of consciousness, I transform in a rule of life what was an invitation to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, apologetics, civil rights, existentialism, freedom, humanity, passion, philosophy, rebellion, solidarity, suffering, The Myth of Sisyphus
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Woman in an American Field Hospital in Czechoslavakia, May 1945
Name: Roszi Frank Age: 24 She was born in Hungary, and was deported to Auschwitz, where, after being moved again, she ended up at a subcamp of Gross Rosen. As the allies closed in on various camps (toward the end … Continue reading
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Tagged 24, Auschwitz, genocide, God, humanity, hungary, life, people, roszi frank, the book of Job, the Holocaust, the problem of suffering
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Lines from Primo Levi’s “Shema”
Italian Jew, Primo Levi, was a concentration camp survivor (he had been at Buna-Monowitz). His words below come from his poem, “Shema”, which he penned in January of 1946: You who live secure In your warm houses, Who return at evening to find … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 