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Ancient footprints: Earliest signs of modern feet
I am re-posting a CNN article: 2009-02-26 http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/26/kenya.footprints/index.html * Story Highlights * The footprints were found in two sedimentary layers that were 1.5 million y… -
Darwin Day: A Source List
February 12 is Darwin Day! It is a time to celebrate at least four things: the birth of Charles Darwin on Feb 12, 1809,Darwin’s contributions to the development of science and the advancement of human knowledge,scien… -
Big Questions - Meaning, Purpose, Life-after-death, Evolution and its Ramifications
The Big Questions? A friend of mine recently posed the following questions to me as part of an on-going discussion: 1. Why are we here? Do we have a purpose? 2. What happens to us when we die? 3. Is their any guiding… -
Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior, NYT
The following article is from the New York Times, March 20, 2007, followed by only brief commentary. Illustration by Edel Rodriguez based on source material from Frans de Waal. Social Order: Chimpanzees have a sen… -
Synapse Evolution and Complexity - NYTimes
2008-06-10 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/health/research/10brai.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1213107263-EZsAzpUN0NqfGotfoupeYw Brainpower May Lie in Complexity of Synaps… -
Intelligent Design: A Response
This is a response to trunthepaige’s xanga, Sunday, May 11, 2008, Intelligent Design: trunthepaige's original post: The Appearance of Design or Intelligent Design: Simply defined, if you find a intricate machine (a wa… -
Juan Enriquez: Decoding the future with genomics
Fascinating! This was filmed in 2003, posted in 2007, but I just saw it tonight. If you have 20 minutes to spare, I can't imagine you could be disappointed. If the embedded video doesn't work, go to http://www.ted.c… -
Global Cosmospolitanism
(Clip from a response in a political dialogue over Ron Paul and US foreign policy. The response was to someone who attacked Noam Chomsky and the UN. ) Noam Chomsky can care about the USA without thinking it is the be-al… -
Sally Kern and the "Gay Agenda": My Comments
----- (Representative Kern's comments were posted in my last entry.) So it seems to me that Sally Kern is sorely undereducated and is spreading anti-homosexual paranoia, which many people are only too willing to … -
A Circle, or The Cave And Beyond (Journal20080213)
The sun and moon they thought were high gods, And I? I felt that we all moved in circles. ----- ----- ages of longing for height, reaching for light ; aching for darkness. Though I have to grope on my soft cal…
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Principia, Existential Thoughts
(selections from J20071218) No complete entities, ... -
Existential Questions
1. Is life/existence ultimately undesigned or desi... -
God is pan-sexual
My girlfriend's friend's boyfriend posted three a...
