Year: 2010

Or rather, a gene for something labeled ‘spirituality.’

The ASA said Peniel Pentecostal Church had to offer proof at least comparable with that required of makers of washing powder

Graham Larkin answers questions from New York Sun

Rebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.

Anti-science is a revolt wherein second-rate scholarship is parlayed into tenured professorships and book contracts.

Or as Tom Lehrer put it: Fight fiercely Harvard, fight fight fight: impress them with our prowess, do.

How human relationships are being pushed in new directions by virtual worlds.

Deborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and false claims are used to question the reality of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews.

Interconnectedness, paranormal information transmission, asymmetrical evidence acceptance, aperception of contradiction, and more.

A new and exciting advance for the academic world.

Marie Brenner on forced marriage, violence, imprisonment of women.

Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.

‘I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.’

Impatient with nuances and discriminations that would impede the march of her argument.

The Spectator, coffee houses, no swords, drawing rooms, books, mixing, nobility and gentry, Boswell’s dirty breeches, and much more.

The exhibit’s commentary is limited to comments like ‘Respect and sharing of your self is very important.’

‘…they hide the atheism at the core of leftist politics in order to pursue a blatant get–rich–quick electoral scheme.’

Authors motivated by impatience with relentless self-promotion and unquestioning adulation of French media.

The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.

‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’