Also the overall story. Getting pretty much all of it wrong, really.… Read the rest
Why Danes Score High on Happiness 
Jan 13th, 2007 |
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Two reasons: football triumph of 1992, and low expectations.… Read the rest
Top 10 Underreported Humanitarian Stories 2006
Jan 13th, 2007 |
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From MSF: Somalia, DRC, Haiti, Colombia, Sri Lanka, CAR, Chechnya, India, Malnutrition, TB.… Read the rest
Blacks Swans Falsify Again
Jan 13th, 2007 |
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‘One-fourth of all black swan families are headed by gay parents.’ Bang goes ‘unnatural’ claim.… Read the rest
Harvard and Pope Are Confused
Jan 13th, 2007 |
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Reason must be unfettered by faith if we are to truly educate our children and our students.… Read the rest
Self and deity
Jan 12th, 2007 6:11 pm | By Ophelia BensonI read a bit of Julian’s Atheism: a Very Short Guide earlier today and there was a bit I wondered about. It gave me pause. He’s comparing belief in God with belief in the existence of the self – one’s own, that is.
For many religious believers, their belief in God’s existence is of comparable strength. They feel the truth of God’s existence so strongly that they can no more doubt it than they can doubt the existence of their own selves.
Is that true? I wondered. I don’t know that it’s not – but I wonder. It seems implausible. It seems implausible because (as we all know via Descartes, of course, if not in any other way) it’s not … Read the rest
Bérubé Rolls Up the Carpet
Jan 12th, 2007 |
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‘I still think this here blogosphere is a great venue for public intellectual work.’… Read the rest
Bloggers at the MLA
Jan 12th, 2007 |
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Kaufman, Holbo, Osell, Bérubé discuss the old-boy network in blog-world.… Read the rest
On Hegel and George Bush
Jan 12th, 2007 |
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Hegel calls history the slaughter bench at which the happiness of peoples has been victimized.… Read the rest
Should Muslims have faith based health services?
Jan 12th, 2007 |
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Aneez Esmail says no.… Read the rest
Should Muslims have faith based health services?
Jan 12th, 2007 |
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Aziz Sheikh says yes.… Read the rest
Call for ‘Faith-based’ NHS Services
Jan 12th, 2007 |
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Need to avoid ‘porcine and alcohol derived drugs’, access to prayer facilities and Ramadan advice cited.… Read the rest
Religion in Britain in Blair Era
Jan 12th, 2007 |
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Secularists dismayed by what they see as the growing influence of religion on government.… Read the rest
Grayling on an Obscenity Against Human Rights
Jan 12th, 2007 |
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This effort to halt the fight against the evil of discrimination is a step too far by the religious.… Read the rest
‘Diverse Communities’: Vibrant or Suspicious?
Jan 12th, 2007 |
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Well, kind of vibrantly suspicious.… Read the rest
French Intellectuals Sold Out Redeker
Jan 11th, 2007 |
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Editorial board of Le Monde called his remarks about Muhammad ‘a blasphemy.’ Adieu, secularism.… Read the rest
Nature as Book Metaphor Has its Dangers
Jan 11th, 2007 |
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The image suggests that the ‘text’ of the book of nature has a divine origin.… Read the rest
Historian Roughed Up, Jailed for Jaywalking
Jan 11th, 2007 |
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tried to cross street in middle of block. The horror!… Read the rest
Oh Good, Another Identity Community
Jan 11th, 2007 |
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Deaf is the new ethnic.… Read the rest
BBC Fella Says Truth Matters
Jan 11th, 2007 |
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Says Jeremy deals with various challenges to truth in the interview. A likely story.… Read the rest
