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• If You Have a Hammer...

  
  Shadowed Forest of World Politics — Authority: 123
  A consistent stance toward issues with Muslim societies is gradually emerging from the Obama Administration – emerging out of the optimistic fog of early rhetoric. The stance is simple: the U.S. has one big hammer, and that is what will be used to pound on all issues with the Islamic world. The overwhelming ...
  1 day ago

• The Law of Attraction: Science, Faith, and the Cult of Positive Thought. Part 1.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  The popular book and movie, The Secret , has spread its message deep into our culture. For the rare reader who is not already familiar with The Secret , it has a simple message which it calls the Law of Attraction. The message is that whatever you think about (wealth, or poverty, happiness or misery, love or ...
  6 days ago

• In Search of Unqualified Happiness

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 137
  If Only Since most of our experiences are rooted in cause and effect, we naturally want to justify our contentment. We envision grand circumstances, stating that if only we could achieve this goal or obtain that possession, we would finally be in a position to attain happiness . As a result, satisfaction is ...
  1 week ago

• Marijuana and Autism

  
  Make Marijuana Legal — Authority: 105
  Good Morning Americas website featured a story about a mother who has been giving her child marijuana in order to combat the effects of autism on her son. Her son was losing weight and they could not get him to eat, he was violent and a danger to himself and everyone around him. Marijuana calmed him down and made him ...
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• WMU 6104

  
  books@me — Authority: 108
  To the driver of the Vehicle bearing the plate # WMU6104, It was raining. Traffic was already at a standstill. I was sticking to my lane when you decided to nudge in out of nowhere. I honked to let you know that there was not enough room for you to cut in. Check that...I was incessantly depressing the horn like a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Skeptism and causes.

  
  Ssnot! — Authority: 122
  (On the topic of the Bermuda Triangle, "Theres no statistical aberration and no need to speculate a mechanism to explain it. No more ships vanish there than any other equally sized body of water.") Incredulous: So are we to embrace the whole "coincidence" ideology? Hundreds of reported cases of disappearing aircraft ...
  2 weeks ago

• Western - Islamic Confrontation Scorecard

  
  Shadowed Forest of World Politics — Authority: 123
  Now that a full decade of frontal military confrontation between the West and Islam has passed with no sight of any resolution of the disagrement or, sadly, even of much improvement in mutual understanding, a moment of contemplation of that which we have wrought and its implications is long overdue. Great ...
  2 weeks ago

• President Zuma shouldn’t blame artists for violence

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 125
  PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma’s interaction with local artists today offered a disturbing insight into how he sees the relationship between media and violence.Here’s what he said:“Whatever we present is part of societal education. If you listen to… [radio] short stories you are exposed toconspiracies, to killing, to ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Everything happens for a reason": Simple phrase opens worm-can of wonder

  
  Ambigamy — Authority: 115
  It sounds so true. People seem to take such comfort from that phrases wisdom. Theres something proudly accepting and resolved in their tone when they declare it, as though theyre sharing a hard-earned profound lesson. What it means though is very much up in the air. And therein lies a tale of our eras confusion ...
  2 weeks ago

• Has This War Affected Your Paycheck?

  
  Simple Complexity — Authority: 463
  This is an interesting infographic that I found on Financial Infographics . I think this graphic is a good example of a couple common problems: There is no evidence presented that the war has anything to do with the change in wages. The wage variations could be caused by inflation, changes in minimum wages, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Erdogans Calculus: An Analytical Approach

  
  Shadowed Forest of World Politics — Authority: 123
  Erdogans diplomatic initiative to break the Mideast logjam with fresh thinking has provoked lots of smoke but much less analytical fire. How might we think through the options facing the region?Turkey appears to be challenging the world to think more deeply about the state of affairs in the Mideast and to move toward ...
  4 weeks ago

• Priming Toddlers to be Altruistic

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Drop a couple of pens in front of an eighteen-month-old toddler, and there is a decent chance your toddler will display a spontaneous act of altruism by picking them up for you. A recent experiment at the Max Planck Institute now shows that this kind of cooperative, altruistic behavior in toddlers can be increased ...
  4 weeks ago

• Constraint propagation: Nobel chemists insight begins to explain the soul

  
  Ambigamy — Authority: 115
  Its not true about the 21 grams. That was an error in measurement back in 1907 when Duncan McDougall claimed to have weighed a soul. Theres no weight loss with death, which is fine with most people because weve long assumed the soul was a weightless, sizeless, timeless substance anyway. Still, weightless, size-less, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Constraint propagation: A completely new take on souls

  
  Ambigamy — Authority: 115
  Its not true about the 21 grams. That was an error in measurement back in 1907 when Duncan McDougall claimed to have weighed a soul. Theres no weight loss with death, which is fine with most people because weve long assumed the soul was a weightless, sizeless, timeless substance anyway. Still, weightless, size-less, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Defense of the Morally Bankrupt

  
  Shadowed Forest of World Politics — Authority: 123
  Today a band of willful men will attempt to pass a bill (H.R. 867) calling on the U.S. Government to stick its head in the sand; to speak, hear, and see no evil; and to refuse to discuss charges of war crimes during Israel’s vicious and equally willful attack on the people of Gaza in December 2008. In a move that ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Truly Good Person

  
  Journal — Authority: 105
  We should not, because of our arrogance, harm ourselves by doing something improper. We should not, because of our lack of confidence, give up on ourselves. With effort, we will each gradually become a noble person.       It was Claire’s favorite part of the day. Every night, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Stupid Creatonist Arguments 2: Cosmological Argument

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 108
  Everything that comes into existence has a cause, the universe came into existence thus it had a cause and that cause was God.The Cosmological Argument starts out with a decent premiss and then plunges head first into stupidity. “Everything that comes into existence has a cause” this makes sense and fits with our ...
  4 weeks ago

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