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Obama reverses Bush policy on stem cell science

Posted by: gimster on: March 30, 2009

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Quote of the Day

Posted by: gimster on: April 9, 2008

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
The Buddha
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Standing on the shoulders of giants

Posted by: gimster on: April 27, 2007

I first got to know of this phrase as part of a quotation from Isaac Newton and I’ve actually posted it as one of my quotes of the day. You’ll find on Wikipedia many contemporary references to the phrase; the dialogue session I attended today reminded me of it.
It was a dialogue session between some [...]

‘The Bible tells me so’

Posted by: gimster on: April 22, 2006

This must be yet another one of those misleading headlines some newspapers slap on their articles to get the readers' attention. While bloghopping, I found a reproduction of this Times Online article with the headline – Catholic Church no long swears by the truth of the Bible – published on 5 October last year. The [...]

Quote of the day

Posted by: gimster on: April 7, 2006

'It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.'
Mark Twain, 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar' in Following the Equator

Eschatology: Apocalypse sometime soon?

Posted by: gimster on: April 5, 2006

apocalypse n.
2b. Armageddon; the site or time of a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil
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kingdom come n. Informal
1. The next world: a bomb that could blow us to kingdom come.
2. The end of time: You can complain till kingdom come, but it won't help.
[From the phrase thy [...]

Quotes of the day

Posted by: gimster on: March 28, 2006

'I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect intended us to forgo their use.'
Galilieo Galilei, quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
For more quotes from Galileo, go to http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Quotations/Galileo.html
'Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright [...]

The stories of Terry Schiavo

Posted by: gimster on: March 27, 2006

'Schiavo's husband, family battle in books' – Wired News
A report on the upcoming release of the two books by the two battling parties, with background information.

Some ideas on how to make Singapore (or any city for that matter) a great city (in which to live, work and play?)

Posted by: gimster on: March 26, 2006

'The secret to a thriving city is not what you may think' – csmonitor.com
Attracting and keeping people in urban environments is less about projecting an image of "cool" and more about providing the basics that encourage and support a strong middle class: jobs, schools, churches.
'The Rise of the Ephemeral City' – metropolismag.com
In affluent parts of [...]

‘Western, Muslim worlds clash again over religion’

Posted by: gimster on: March 25, 2006

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-23T234842Z_01_L22620258_RTRUKOT_0_TEXT0.xml&related=true
Note the choice of  the word ‘Western’ in the article instead of ‘Christian’. 
See also http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-24T223553Z_01_ISL307059_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-AFGHAN.xml&archived=False

An evolutionary explanation of religion

Posted by: gimster on: March 21, 2006

A review of Daniel Dennett’s The Belief Trap on Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2137743/
The article discusses a few key ideas regarding religion: the definition of religion and a boundary between science (or pure reason) and religion (or morality) as a part of the ‘intellectual protocol’ that has existed since the 18th century.
The definition of religion is a concept many students would fumble on [...]

Freedom of speech

Posted by: gimster on: March 11, 2006

SK: holy sh** blog has been infiltrated by a teacher.Now cannot say ************************************ animore le ……..
The very funny response after I left a message on the tagboard of 06S54’s class blog. Example of self-censorship.
Freedom of speech is quite a topical topic with the recent Danish comics controversy. Should look into it.

Tony Blair attacked on Iraq ‘God’ Remark – BBC News

Posted by: gimster on: March 10, 2006

Link to the article
If so many people are religious (and so many Christian), why was Tony Blair attacked?

He referred to ‘God’, which most people would construe as referring to the ’deity’ in Christianity
There are vocal non-Christians who take offence
Vocal Christians take offence on behalf of their non-Christian friends; it was simply inappropriate for him to say such [...]

The Existence of God

Posted by: gimster on: March 8, 2006

Why I Believe in the Existence of God
Is it politically incorrect to announce that you’re an atheist? The term free thinker sounds nice in itself, but what does it imply of those with religious beliefs then?
Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents - a pie chart
Famous scientists who believed in God
Couldn’t find the [...]



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