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Posts Tagged ‘Ideas’
May 10th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in Religion
佛誕日 부처님 오신 날 The Mitzvot for Buddha’s Birthday
Ed. Central to Judaism is the idea of “mitzvah.” Mitzvah is one of those words that do not translate well. It can mean law, good deed, and religious obligation all at the same time. Moreover, in Judaism, the mitzvot (plural) are themselves eternal, not so much mandated by God, but li[...]
May 9th, 2011 - 12:55 pm § in Hypocrisy
We Give Berkeley Professor a D.
Ed. This post from the Berkely Blog gets a D. Prof. Mendoza dismisses a genetics of intelligence by reductio ad absurdam. Asserting that there is no genetic factor or very little in intelligence would be as silly as claiming that there are no genetic effects on the speed of thoroughbred horses[...]
How Apple Destroyed Democracy
from RealClearPolitics Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), who admits to owning an iPad, blames the Apple Inc. product for “eliminating thousands of American jobs.” “A few short weeks ago I came to the House floor after having purchased an iPad and said that I happened to believe, Mr. S[...]
May 5th, 2011 - 12:26 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Myhrvold and the Coolcookbook
Man of the Millenium? Nathan Myhrvold and His “Modernist Cuisine” from Salty Seattle, April 18th, 2011 Taco de Asador The book that launched a thousand one-eyed salutes in the pants of food geeks across the globe was the literal elephant in the room during dinner at the Intellectual Ventur[...]
Flowering of Science, 1687 in Tibet
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, with the construction of a monastic medical college and the penning of several influential medical texts. Tibetan anatomists counted a total of 360 bones in the human body—significantly more than the 206 bones described in West[...]
Open Season on Politicians Who Plagiarize
Guttenberg has since lost his Ph.D. and completely withdrawn from public life. from Der Spiegel by Oliver Trenkamp It started with Germany’s defense minister. But once Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg lost his job, many of the researchers who uncovered his plagiarized dissertation have moved on to n[...]
May 4th, 2011 - 11:37 am § in America
Finely Made Things
…one reason I became a photographer was the love of finely made things. Leicas, Nikons, Schneiders were as wonderful as the work of Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, and Edward Weston. Sadly, the era of the mechanical camera is past .. what is finely made in today’s digital camera is in their e[...]
May 1st, 2011 - 1:54 pm § in Religion
Sunday Revelations: The heritage of the divinity of Rome’s Emperors taints the last remnant of the Roman empire.
Can you imagine Germany without holocaust guilt or America without its knowledge of the crimes of slavery? At this year’s Vatican Easter service , students of the Legion of Christ provided the liturgical service at the vigil. The Vatican took over the Legion last May 1 after confirming its fou[...]
Yom Hashoah: Roger asks, Were Hitler’s crimes immense enough for you to make an exception for him?
Mon, May 2, 2011 …. Tomorrow is the Jewish holiday, Yom Hashoah .. the day of remembrance of the Holocaust. Because I do not believe in the death penalty, my friend Roger asked this question a few weeks ago: If Hitler had been captured alive, would you have supported executing him? Were his [...]