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With well over a billion Muslims and extensive material resources, why is the Islamic world disengaged from science and the process of creating new knowledge? Muslims bristle at any hint that Islam and science may be at odds, or that...
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Posted on August 10, 2007 12:19 PM • 0 Comments •
For enlightened foodies the connection between lowering food miles and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions is a no-brainer. In Iowa, the typical carrot has traveled 1,600 miles from California, a potato 1,200 miles from Idaho and a chuck roast 600 miles...
Posted on August 10, 2007 11:36 AM • 0 Comments •
Seed bloggers will have one less source to mock. The Weekly World News has folded. It was a sleazy tabloid that covered events that seemed to occur in a parallel universe, a fevered dream world where pop culture mixed with...
Posted on August 7, 2007 04:04 PM • 0 Comments •
To people not in the business, editing is a mysterious thing. (Actually, it's mysterious to most bloggers, who despite having been in existence for less than 10 years, probably outnumber every writer who ever wrote.) Speaking from my own limited...
Posted on August 1, 2007 08:13 PM • 0 Comments •
As always there seems to be an Africa problem. These days, wracked by guilt at the humanitarian crisis it has created in the Middle East, the West has turned to Africa for redemption. Idealistic college students, celebrities such as Bob...
Posted on July 27, 2007 10:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Armies of freaks, geeks, nerds, media moguls and fan boys are desending upon San Diego for the largest trade show gathering in the Galaxy ( at least this one), for the annual cultural tsunami otherwise known as Comic Con. They...
Posted on July 26, 2007 12:57 PM • 2 Comments •
Apparently quite a few people are distressed at the explosion of information out there. The arguement that information should be controlled by gatekeepers has been going on since the Middle Ages when monks discovered they no longer cornered the market...
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Posted on July 24, 2007 05:14 PM • 6 Comments •
There are two Iraqs in evidence these days: not just the one where weddings are bombed and young women murdered in reply. The other Iraq is harder to dramatise but it is equally real. It is a place where boring,...
Posted on July 23, 2007 11:18 AM • 2 Comments •
Do women, on average, have a different profile of aptitudes and emotions than men? Were the events in the Bible fictitious -- not just the miracles, but those involving kings and empires? Has the state of the environment improved in...
Posted on July 23, 2007 11:02 AM • 0 Comments •
Thin to the point of gauntness, polite to the point of daintiness, Ron Paul is a 71-year-old great-grandfather, a small-town doctor, a self-educated policy intellectual and a formidable stander on constitutional principle. In normal times, Paul might be -- indeed,...
Posted on July 22, 2007 12:34 PM • 9 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
