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December 31, 2008
Category: Creative commons
Here's how. Interview with the Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. SPIEGEL ONLINE: What is Abraham's function in the Bible? Metzger: The great Jewish philosopher Maimonides explained this very impressively. God created various objects in heaven. The sun,...
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December 30, 2008
Category: Creative commons
I guess, Your Excellency, that I too should start off by kissing some god's arse. Which god's arse, though? There are so many choices. See, the Muslims have one god. The Christians have three gods. And we Hindus have...
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Category: Creative commons
Read Fafblog! Read Fafblog!...
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December 29, 2008
Category: Creative commons
A good view of the man at IHT. It was only in the recent years - since my marriage and especially after the birth of our daughter - that I developed the sensibility that Pinter so masterfully exposed: the menace...
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December 26, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
CERN's Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator that the world has seen so far. It is a supreme expression of our collective scientific and technological ambition. It transcends national boundaries with components made in...
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December 24, 2008
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One of the two selected stories of the Scifi contest has been published. Aditya Sudarshan in Live and exclusive tells you of a mad scientist, a house that is alive and a cheeky journalist trying to find a sensational story....
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Category: Prime Stream
Deceit is a useful behavior if one can get away with it while pursuing happiness; in evolutionary terms that would be to live and leave behind more copies of ones genes. A NY Times article by Natalie Angier that connects...
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December 23, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
TV in India is mostly cricket, pelvic thrusts, incessant family drama prattle and rivers of tears, bored religious pundits fleecing eager supplicants, passionate debate about nothing by know-nothings, and more recently, the shameless exploitation of the terrorist attacks in Bombay....
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December 22, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
An insightful interview in Frontline with the Egyptian economist Samir Amin. The dominant view in the media and in policymaking circles is that the current financial crisis is the result of undue deregulation and the greed of a few in...
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December 21, 2008
Category: Prime Stream
A large hall in United Nations Office: The gathered mass of knuckleheads praised the munificence of their imagined protector, then proceeded to approve a "Defamation of Religion" resolution, largely supported by Islamic countries, condemning critical or offensive expressions directed at...
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