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• In Pictures: Free Jimmy Choo For H&M, In Pastry

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 620
  JIMMY Choo is London’s most famous cobbler. he is one letter aways from being Jimmy Choos and thus a product of nominative determinism. As it is we wrestle with Jimmy Choo, which should be pronouned as in ‘choux’, the pastry. Anorak was there to see Jimmy Choux unveil his range for H&M, which is pronounced ...
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• I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Sacks Katie Price

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 620
  THE year is now divided into TV shows: And November means I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! , staring Katie Price in the sack and out of a bikini. While the BBC’s care home-focused non-dancing dance show Strictly Come Dancing – does anyone allowed to operate the remote control watch it? - ITV follows the ...
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• Euro Lottery Winners Yet To Pay Back Loan

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 620
  CONGRATS to Les Scadding and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding from Caerleon, south Wales, seen here holding a cheque for 45.5 million, after scooping the prize in Saturday’s Euromillions jackpot. You lend some people a fiver… Joke. Really. A joke. (They can afford lawyers for a whole week - we need to get the ...
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• Reasonable Enough: Why Reason Does Not Compel Acceptance

  
  DefendingGenesis.org — Authority: 412
  It is COMPLETELY WRONG to say that I think atheists or any other non-Christians would agree with me if they would just open up their eyes and see reason.  I do not believe reason could infect someone [profoundly affect someone] so as to compel them to see my position as truth. I don’t think that at [...]
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• X Factor: Simon Cowell Cracks A Joke

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 620
  MORE X Factor news now as Simon Cowell loses the show when Lucie Jones is rejected and Jedward murder another day. Only, Simon Cowell can’t lose. Let’s review the facts: Cowell Loses Ipswich Evening Star : “X-FACTOR: Joke is on Simon Cowell this time” Nominative determinism now as Nigel ...
  6 days ago

• Lets assume that we dont have free will...

  
  Sze Zeng — Authority: 127
  Herere some of the discussions that I had on Facebook with my friends. I pieced my fragmented replies together and thought it is good to have them posted here: " You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? ...
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• nanoparticles hazardous to dna

  
  subrealism — Authority: 439
  The Scientist | Nanoparticles can damage DNA even in cells that are not directly exposed to them, according to an in vitro study published online today (November 5) in Nature Nanotechnology -- raising further questions about the safety of nanomaterials used in clinical therapies. "DNA damage due to nanoparticles ...
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• DETERMINISM

  
  Pulp 2.0 — Authority: 468
  I hate the title. (I really do) I like the look of this though. Shot on video with a good eye - inexpensive yet with a lush look. I think it should move faster than it does. 2:21 is 51 seconds too long for a good trailer. See for yourself:
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• The ‘Harvard Study’ researchers…in the flesh

  
  Mainstream Parenting Resources — Authority: 111
  I found this interesting ABC piece on infant sleep training (apparently televised last year) over at the Drs. Weissbluth blog . It’s not very long, seems journalistically well-balanced, and there are short interviews with some of the important players in the infant sleep industry: Ferber, T. Berry Brazelton, and ...
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• Full Text of John Goodwin’s Puritan Defense of Arminianism and Polemic Against Calvinism Available at SEA

  
  Arminian Perspectives — Authority: 115
  Big thanks to SEA member John Wagner! John Goodwin (Redemption Redeemed)
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• Another Calvinist Who Isn’t Afraid to Tell it Like it Is

  
  Arminian Perspectives — Authority: 115
  In my previous post I drew attention to a person who called Jesus the Calvinist Messiah.  As it turned out, this person was really just making fun of the way that some Calvinists tend towards elitist attitudes and equate their system of theology with the gospel itself. But here is a guy who is quite for real.  In ...
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• Blending Out

  
  Tinted Lenses — Authority: 99
  Faithful readers will note that I have had occasional skirmishes with some of our resident evolutionary psychologists. Although there is room for disagreement about theoretical specifics, modern psychology can ignore evolutionary theory only at its own peril: human behaviour is clearly a partial product of our ...
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• Nutt And The Call For Cocaine To Be New Gold Standard

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 620
  PROFESSOR David Nutt, has been sacked as the Government’s chief advisor on drugs’ misuse policy for saying that booze is worse for you than LSD and hash. “Alcohol ranks as the fifth most harmful drug after heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and methadone. Tobacco is ranked ninth. Cannabis, LSD and ecstasy, while ...
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• William L. Craig on Free Will and Love

  
  Arminian Perspectives — Authority: 115
  Excerpt: Even omnipotence cannot do the logically impossible. God could produce certain chemical reactions in our brains that would issue in what we’d normally describe as loving behavior toward Him, but it would be a sham, a puppet-like response. To have a genuine love relationship with us, God must put up with ...
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• DO JUSTICE, LOVE MERCY, WALK HUMBLY

  
  Classical Arminianism — Authority: 127
  The prophet Micah asks: "What can we bring to the L ORD ? What kind of offerings should we give him? Should we bow before God with offerings of yearling calves? Should we offer him thousands of rams and ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for our sins?" (Micah 6:6-7 NLT, ...
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• The Risks of Clickthrough Determinism

  
  Web Liquid | thinking:returns Web Liquid | thinking:returns — Authority: 109
  AdAge.com recently reported on an intriguing trend towards lower participation rates in online display advertising ( What to Measure? Only 16% of the Web Is Clicking Display Ads” ).  The gist of the article is that only 8% of internet users account for 85% of all clicks on display ads, and that overall, so-called ...
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• Genes, Murder, and Bad Driving

  
  Human Nature — Authority: 119
  Can crimes and crashes be blamed on bad genes? On Friday, Nature reported details of an Italian case in which a court, for the first time in Europe, reduced a criminal sentence based on a genetic theory of behavior . According to the report: Pietro Pietrini, a molecular neuroscientist at Italys University of ...
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• X Factor: Finding Another Reason To Hate Gay Danyl Johnson

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 620
  THE media hatchet job on the X Factor Danyl Johnson continues as the NoTW screams: Danyl Johnson’s 100% gay Not too long ago, the NoTW told us that Danyl Johnson was “ bi ”, which made him 50% gay. I’VE DAN IT WITH BOYS AND GIRLS Now we get the fact that he is 100% gay. Or as the sub-header puts ...
  2 weeks ago

• Free Will and Fusion Centers

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 130
  Occasionally, philosophical debates interact forcefully with public policy, even completely under the radar.  Fusion centers are described as intelligence hubs where information is shared between various law enforcement and government intelligence agencies.  Their development is partially in response to the ...
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• What Free Will?

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 130
  The following could be called my personal/political doctrine in infant form.  Any who know me are well aware of my beliefs in the effects of institutions upon consciousness.  It’s a very materialistic (re:  Marxist) idea.  I believe in free will to the extent that an individual’s personal decision bears a ...
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