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From the Huffington Post (by way of Instapundit), Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists, by Matt Ridley: When I was a student, in the 1970s, the world was coming to an end. The adults … Continue reading →

You can’t make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago “Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world’s music and … Continue reading →

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it? –Benjamin Franklin, letter to an unknown recipient, December 13, 1757 Send to Kindle

“The wise know their weakness too well to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.” – Thomas Jefferson, The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining The Public Right to the … Continue reading →

According to an article at ScienceNews.org, Stem cells from blood a ‘huge’ milestone by Laura Sanders: Blood drawn with a simple needle stick can be coaxed into producing stem cells that may have the ability to form any type of … Continue reading →

“What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?” This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table. Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to … Continue reading →

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.–Bertrand Russell Send to Kindle

By way of a misleadingly titled and not always entirely accurate article on the science fiction website, io9.com, Computer program deciphers a dead language that mystified linguists, I ran across a fascinating paper: A Statistical Model for Lost Language Decipherment … Continue reading →

Interesting article on io9.com, a website devoted to science fiction: Christian readers demand more science fiction books. Why won’t Christian publishers listen? As a Christian who reads and writes science fiction, it is a bit of a puzzle. On the … Continue reading →

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