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Glenn Greenwald « Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton and Charles GoyetteGlenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses Washington’s treatment of the Constitution as a legal suggestion, why real patriots are civil liberties extremists, evolving Democratic excuses for not prosecuting Bush administration war crimes and how ...
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Op-Ed Contributor - One Giant Leap to Nowhere - NYTimes.comOne Giant Leap to Nowhere WELL, let’s see now ... That was a small step for Neil Armstrong, a giant leap for mankind and a real knee in the groin for NASA. The American space program, the greatest, grandest, most Promethean — O.K. if I add “godlike”? — quest in the history of the world, ...
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: The American Theory Of Life: A Crisis Of Belief...In the fall of 1933, Sherwood Anderson left his home in New York City and set out on a series of journeys that would take him across large sections of the American South and Midwest. He was engaged in a project shared by many of his fellow writers -- including James Agee, Edmund Wilson, John ...
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Dionysus in Zion : Azure - Ideas for the Jewish NationHow did Israel become a hothouse of Dionysian youth culture? To begin with, it is not too difficult to find among Israelis under the age of thirty the same pessimism and dark apathy that characterize their American and European counterparts. In 1997, the young Israeli cultural critic Gadi Taub ...
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Fear, Death and Politics: What Your Mortality Has to Do with the Upcoming Election: Scientific AmericanA psychology professor explains how thoughts of death influence how we vote or make other decisions - Terror management theory (TMT) is derived from cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker’s efforts to explain the motivational underpinnings of human behavior. According to TMT, one defining ...
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SCIENCE SITUATION CONSCIOUSNESSThe basis of his approach was the remark according to which any third person, objective, description, arises as an invariant focus for a community of embodied, situated, subjects endowed with conscious experience in the first place. This remark is usually either overlooked (by those philosophers ...Twine added 14 months ago
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The X Chromosome and the Case against Monogamy: Scientific AmericanResearchers report genetic evidence bolstering the socially contentious idea that polygyny—the mating practice where some males dominate reproduction by fathering children with several women—was the norm for sexual behavior throughout human history and prehistory. Because polygyny means other ...
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Exploring Our MatrixHow to Believe: Teachers and Seekers Show the Way to a Modern, Life-Changing Faith by Jon Spayde (New York: Random House, 2008) is a striking book to read after finishing Gretta Vosper's With Or Without God , since it reflects an almost opposite perspective, that of someone who is attracted to ...Twine added 18 months ago
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Exploring Our MatrixHow to Believe: Teachers and Seekers Show the Way to a Modern, Life-Changing Faith by Jon Spayde (New York: Random House, 2008) is a striking book to read after finishing Gretta Vosper's With Or Without God , since it reflects an almost opposite perspective, that of someone who is attracted to ...Twine added 18 months ago
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A Superhighway to Bliss - The New York TimesJill Bolte Taylor’s message, that people can choose to live a more peaceful, spiritual life by sidestepping their left brain, has resonated widely.Twine added 19 months ago