Archives for August, 2007

Help the Iraq and the Asian Countries


“I personally believe that, U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some people out there in our nation that don’t have maps, and I believe that our education, like such, as in South Africa and Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S., should [...]

Sheldrake at the Temple in Thanjavur


Not that I am trying to establish any spiritual or epistemological ancestry in my view of the world … but here is another hero/friend of mine at the Shiva Temple in Thanjavur. You may not know that from 1974 to 1985 Dr. Sheldrake worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) [...]

Podcast: Can Dogs Know?


Great podcast from the website Skeptiko by Alex Tsakiris. Alex’s guests are Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Dr. Richard Wiseman on whether dogs can “know” when their owners are coming home.

Take a listen.

Carl Sagan on Hinduism


I’ve written before about how influential Carl Sagan was in my childhood. Not only his views of science and philosophy but also his views on religion. My interest in Hinduism goes far back into my elementary school years when I discovered that there was a religion that had such a enormous vision of cosmos.

I [...]

CMS Review: Bricolage


Moving a great story from concept to content requires inspiration, a little creativity, a lot of proofreading, and publication – or as they say in the newsroom, “Copy!” A good web content management system (WCMS) makes this happen seamlessly for the content creator. In the newspaper business where a quick content turnaround equals revenue, the [...]

The Need for Heretics


The radical, brilliant theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has just written a interesting essay on the the need for heretics in science. Since Rupert Sheldrake has been battling this kind of stereotype for his entire career, it’s interesting to see that being a maverick is somehow coming back in fashion. Almost daily I’m reading about “new” [...]