The House, the Senate and the President found a compromise and I found maxims of Shaw that fit. We are slowly working our way out of a deep recession and our...
Yes, profoundly depressing. For you non-Tweeters, here's what I sent out this morning: ...
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Jim Bechtel
jimbechtel2@...
Aug 1, 2011 3:12 pm
... From: Pottawattamie Conservation Foundation To: jimbechtel2@... Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 10:01 AM Subject: News from Pottawattamie Conservation...
In short, voters tend to think Democrats =government, government =bad, ergo..... He has strategy for winning over more voters which makes sense to me. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/gossip-girls-boys-scientist-evolution-makes-us-talk/story?id=14191710 Gossip Girls (and Boys): Evolution Makes Us Love to Dish...
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/08/01/3282698.htm Population to bulge, but will hit ceiling 1 August 2011 Emily Sohn 'Can we support 10 billion...
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2086421,00.html Aug. 02, 2011 The GOP's Hidden Debt-Deal Agenda: Gut the EPA By Bryan Walsh It was lost in the...
Book review Wall, J.N., and Shackelford, T.K. (2011). Walking the moral landscape: A review of Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human...
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_public-workers.html <http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_public-workers.html> Individuals as well as all forms of...
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Reason-Omaha@yahoogro...
Aug 3, 2011 6:55 pm
Reminder from: Reason-Omaha Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Reason-Omaha/cal Regular Meeting Saturday August 6, 2011 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (This event...
Piece of Biblical advice: Ruth patiently waited for her mate Boaz. While waiting on your Boaz, don't settle for ANY of his relatives: Brokeaz, Poaz, Lyinaz,...
... There’s A Hole In Daddy’s Head Where All The Money Goes By: TBogg Wednesday August 3, 2011 9:12 am Tweet 69 via S,N If there is one thing to admire...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128201.800-lab-brats-eight-great-scoundrels-of-science.html KARY MULLIS TRAINS HIS BRAIN WITH LSD In the early 1980s,...
An interesting article that, curiously, makes no mention at all of the effect of birth control technology on natural selection. I'm beginning work now on an...
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Sam Collins
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Aug 4, 2011 2:09 pm
Black Swan: an unsuspected phenomenon not encountered in the experience of the observer. The long term persistence of H. saps is a swan with purple hair,...
Sam, Wonderful word-smithing! If it's my argument you're refusing to touch with those delphic tongs, however, I'm not yet convinced -- at least, not until...
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Jim Bechtel
jimbechtel2@...
Aug 4, 2011 5:51 pm
Meteorologist's topic to be climate change Meteorologist Scott George will give a free talk on climate disruption, "Dire Predictions: Understanding Global...
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Jim Bechtel
jimbechtel2@...
Aug 4, 2011 8:04 pm
Underlined for skimmers. NYRB: What Were They Thinking? August 18, 2011 Elizabeth Drew Someday people will look back and wonder, What were they thinking? Why,...
Are You A Lexiphile ??? Lexiphile (i.e., "lovers of words" you know . . . . like . ... . you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish .. . . or, I wondered...
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Sam Collins
sgc503@...
Aug 5, 2011 2:05 am
My feeling is that we possess, uniquely, the capacity to destroy the ecosystem of which we are a part, and we demonstrate, indeed practice daily, the...
