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• News, Medical Humanities: Terrence Holt, PhD and MD

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  I like to read medical fiction, and believe that medical students probably do as well (although they have little time to do so).  So today a new category has been added to the EBM & Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC category list: Medical Humanities . The first post with that tag is about the literary works ...
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• Damien James on the Chicago Humanities Festival

  
  Bad at Sports — Authority: 535
  Matt Groening and Lynda Barry circa 1984 by Michael Sepcot. Guest post by Damien James In the brief Chicago Humanities Festival preview posted a couple of weeks ago, I listed what I hoped would be some highlights, and I wanted to take a moment now that the festival is about halfway through its run to tell you ...
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• The God Claim

  
  U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum — Authority: 154
  Gen 17:1 "When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, I am Almighty God; walk before me and be blameless." This is in two parts: 1. What qualifies as deity status? 2. How, if at all, would you validate any claim to deity status?
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• Guest Service Executives at 3-Star hotel

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 161
  Our Client 3-Star hotel in Lokoja, Kogi State seek to recruit a winning team that would redefine hospitality in the confluence city requires individuals for immediate employment.Guest Service Executives (Reception Staff) Qualification and ExperienceCandidate must possess HND/BA in humanitiesGraduate of language ...
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• Ghetto Girl Book Club – Girl, Interrupted

  
  The Girl from the Ghetto — Authority: 121
  About a month ago I decided to start an in-home and online joint book club,  My first monthly  Ghetto Girl Book Club  will be held tonight – Tuesday November 10, 2009 from 7-9 pm.   If you can’t join us at my house, then at least join me online.  You’ll be missing out on my famous ranch, cheese and ...
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• Are You a Deadhead? The Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz is Looking for an Archivist

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 648
  In a September post, we listed many of the projects that were going to receive National Leadership Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). One grant recipient that got a lot of attention was the University of California Santa Cruz who received funding ($615,000) to digitize material from its ...
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• What did the Romans ever teach us?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Will plans for food-label-style tagging of degrees threaten the arts and humanities? Last week Lord Mandelson called for a new food-labelling-style system in which degrees would be tagged with drop-out rates, earnings potential and employment success, and called on employers to fund courses in return for helping to ...
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• Come hear a story...

  
  The Picaroon — Authority: 130
  Harvest Moon is a weaver of both tales and baskets. These two loves of hers become intertwined as she regales audiences with traditional Coastal Salish lore and transports her listeners into "Basket World." This shared wisdom comes from years of harvesting great skills and having heard Harvest Moon last year, The ...
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• Barron Bannister & The Mischiefs - Falling Farther For You

  
  The Wake — Authority: 131
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• Conference: Drugs, Standards, & Chronic Illness

  
  Medical Humanities Blog — Authority: 413
  The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester is holding a two-day conference   on 27-28 November, 2009, on Drugs, Standards, & Chronic Illness .  The lineup of speakers and topics is truly awe-inspiring for anyone even remotely interested in the topic ...
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• Wisdom, Weaving, Songs and Legends at the Renton History Museum

  
  All About Renton — Authority: 118
  image courtesy of the Renton History Museum The Renton History Museum’s Fall Speaker Series continues tomorrow, November 10th at 5pm with Harvest Moon and Wisdom , Weaving, Songs and Legends. Come and listen as Harvest Moon transports herself to the Basket World with songs and stories from the Salish ...
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• The Sacred Literature of Sanatana Dharma

  
  Lo-Fi Tribe — Authority: 127
  Hindu A myriad of spiritual paths crisscross over the terra firma of the Indian subcontinent. A few of these paths could be called unified systems; Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, for example, are properly unified systems. The majority of these paths, however, can be called neither unified, nor systematic. The paths ...
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• PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT REGISTRAR at Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 161
  Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the post in the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba.PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT REGISTRAR (Administrative and Technical) Qualification and ExperienceCandidates shall possess First degree preferably in Humanities (Arts and Social ...
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• DEPUTY DIRECTORS at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital’s Complex

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 161
  Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced candidates to fill this vacant position below at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital’s Complex, Ile Ife.DEPUTY DIRECTORSEstablishment DepartmentsGeneral Administration (Procurement Unit)Planning and Development Department SERVICOM ...
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• Why is it OK to discriminate against the majority?

  
  U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum — Authority: 154
  Ill admit that I have an ulterior motive to this thread. I will reveal it when I have data to support my claim. Affirmative action, hate crimes legislation and religious freedoms issues all seem to me to be ways to punish the majority. If white, English speaking people are a majority in this country, why are we ...
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• Question to supporters of intellectual property.

  
  U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum — Authority: 154
  Court precedent says that mixing your labor with the genetics of organic material such as plants makes it your property, through patent law. Then if someone mixes their labor with human genetic material and successfully creates a living human clone, and gets a patent on it, is it their property? Now supporters of ...
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• digital humanities talks at UCLA and UCSB

  
  The HUMLab blog — Authority: 117
  I will do two talks on the digital humanities over the next couple of days. At UC Los Angeles on Tuesday on “From optical fiber to conceptual cyberinfrastructure” and a talk on “The landscape of the digital humanities” on Thursday at UC Santa Barbara. I am currently looking at some concordance data for the ...
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• The Sacred Stories of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

  
  Lo-Fi Tribe — Authority: 127
  The Sacred Stories of Indigenous People If God camps with the oppressed, downtrodden, and spiritually humble, then God’s tent must be perpetually pitched with the world’s indigenous peoples. Many of the ancient and sacred ways of indigenous people endure to this day, but only because many indigenous people ...
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• Relative to the rest of the West, why is the US so anti-science?

  
  U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum — Authority: 154
  Approximately 40% of adults in the US do not believe that life has a common origin. More than the teaching of Evolution suffers in this country, though. The last president prevented federal funds from being spent on stem cell research on new embryos, due to religious reasons. Politicians, and their constituents, ...
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• [gossip session] | “you’re probably reading the wrong interview” | the new, new touring guitarist for kill hannah :: michael maddox

  
  Gossip [&] the Devil — Authority: 114
  Photo by Twink “If you happen to be of the other mindset, that judges artistic merit on mass acceptance, then you are probably reading the wrong interview and blog.” Being that Gossip [&] the Devil is an equal opportunity interview slayer, when Kill Hannah’s new touring guitarist, Michael Maddox ...
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