whiskeyfire.typepad.com - 11/17/2008
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Albert Einstein is famously purported to have said that "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." This is one of many reasons why the current 700 billion dollar bailout process scares the hell out of me. We have not in any meaning ful way ...
washingtonpost.com - 11/19/2008
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Giving Up on God
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/16/2008
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A science blogger uses the case of twelve-year-old
Motl Brody to explain brain death: When a child...
suffers brain death, it's incredibly difficult for the parents to accept that the child that they love is dead. After all, the child is still warm, still smells like their child (and smell is a ...
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Dead For A Week
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