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What Are Family Values?
A few years ago, I remember seeing a sign during the election season with the campaign slogan, "I'm for the Family". I thought it was funny because I had never met anyone that was against the family? What do these strange appeals for "family values" mean? The seem vacuous to me. Wouldn't family values include [...]
Continue reading...Placebos and Mind-Body Relationships
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Rupert has just returned back home from Hollyhock in British Columbia in Canada. The popular retreat hosted the most recent trialogue with Rupert Sheldrake, Andrew Weil and Ralph Abraham on the topic of "Placebos and Mind-Body Relationships". Most of modern medicine and science deny the power of the of mind to heal - yet everyone [...]
Continue reading...Parapsychology and The Skeptics
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Sheldrake has written the Forward for a new book, Parapsychology and The Skeptics, by Chris Carter (not the X-Files Chris Carter), on the history of dogmatic skepticism and parapsychology. The book opens with a very interesting anecdote from the seventeenth century - when people believed that balls of fire came hurtling to Earth from space [...]
Continue reading...CMS Review: Bricolage
Friday, August 17, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Fall of America
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
From the Financial Times: The US government is on a "burning platform" of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country's top government inspector has warned. David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat [...]
Continue reading...Study: Iraqis May Experience Sadness When Friends, Relatives Die
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
A field study released Monday by the University of North Carolina School of Public Health suggests that Iraqi citizens experience sadness and a sense of loss when relatives, spouses, and even friends perish, emotions that have until recently been identified almost exclusively with Westerners.read more | digg story
Continue reading...Interesting Internet
Monday, July 9, 2007
The Philosophical Foundations of Jyotish Universe mostly forgets its past during cosmic rebirth Winding Through "Big Dreams" Are the Threads of Our Lives What Do Magnets, Flatworms, And Willow Trees Have In Common? Can you name all the U.S. Presidents? CDC: Antidepressants most prescribed drugs in U.S.
Continue reading...Very Interesting Internet
Sunday, June 24, 2007
The Greatest and Most Unusual Travel Photo of All Time? - Everything about the image is just so amazing: The poof-y shapes of the clouds in the background... 100-foot deep Andes lake disappears - A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared -- and scientists want to know why... No More Black Holes? - A [...]
Continue reading...More Die From Suicide
Thursday, September 14, 2006
From PsycPORT, "More people kill themselves each year, than the numbers who die from wars and murders combined, but most of these suicides can be prevented, Swiss Radio International reported on Sunday, the day marking the third World Suicide Prevention Day. About 20 million to 60 million people try to kill themselves each year, but [...]
Continue reading...Predicting Alcoholism
Thursday, June 29, 2006
People who become alcoholics later in life usually do not have a close emotional connection with their parents, especially their mothers. They tend to be people who consider themselves very independent - not needing anyone. Of course, everyone needs help and support. Many of these types go on to become 'stars' at work though having [...]
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