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Did Saint Francis Discover Evolution Before Darwin? Did Jesus (in the Parable of the Sower)?

__________ The following saying has been attributed to Saint Francis: Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. I’m reasonably confident it’s not remotely close to anything that Francis actually said–it’s obviously … Continue reading

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Cooperation, Collaboration, and Imitation for Intellectual Success

In a New York Times science article from March 10, 2011 titled “New View of How Humans Moved Away from Apes,” an astonishing finding was reported: a study of numerous hunter-gatherer peoples discovered “that the members of a band are not highly related.” Why is this … Continue reading

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Motivational Speaker Dies

That would be Zig Ziglar. He was 86. __________ This is part of the New York Times obituary: “Our whole philosophy’s built around the concept that you can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough … Continue reading

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Want to Think Clearly and Creatively?

Get some sleep. This today at the Daily Beast: When a person lies down to sleep at night, the brain undergoes a process that is crucial to learning, memory, and performance in ways that scientists are only now beginning to … Continue reading

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Tim Tebow’s Work Ethic

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Five Recent Films I Like

Here’s the list: The Social Network. The story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s extraordinary career rise. It will probably win the Academy Award for Best Picture—and it probably should. True Grit. My personal favorite in this list. Perhaps because I … Continue reading

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A Sentence by Sentence Guide to Making a Blog Post

A brilliant deconstruction. See the full post here. Here’s how it starts: This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims … Continue reading

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The Makers of South Park Illustrate an Alan Watts Anecdote on “Life as Music”

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