(In a previous post I claimed that the subject in which the black students grades were boosted was being kept secret because it was not stated in the Science...
Study Shows Link Between Morbid Obesity, Low IQ In Toddlers University of Florida researchers have discovered a link between morbid obesity in toddlers and...
Study Finds How Organs Monitor Themselves During Early Development How are you? In biological terms this question could involve a feedback loop that lets the...
Dear all, Here is a book review I wrote about Marek Kohn's book "A Reason for Everything". It was published in BioEssays, 2006, vol 28(6):679-680. How very...
Scientists Discover Memory Molecule Scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center have discovered a molecular mechanism that maintains memories in the brain. In...
The juxtaposition, which I think is reflected in Jay's meaning, seems valid to me. Belief, in the context of the article cited, tends to be used, rightly, to...
... or ... one ... the ... an ... I can't agree. Attitudes can be shaped by our knowledge of conditions. In a more pronounced instance, civil societies...
... <j.d.sousa@...> wrote in a book review: <snip> ... "scientific") ... Which contemporary scientists have engaged in such "wild" behavior? Instead of tarring...
Well said. Furthermore, it is a regular feature of this debate that those who decry the supposed use of science to support a political position are very guilty...
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Face Research
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Sep 4, 2006 12:21 pm
I agree with Tom. I can't really say that I "believe" in evolution. Having considered the evidence, I think that evolution by natural selection is the best...
[Thanks Nils for article] I found the central fact of the NYT article interesting: "primates have better vision than any other mammals. (Cats, dogs and horses...
... First, Tom, I am not dismissing Fisher, his is a giant contribution to evolution. I only dismissed his more speculative, politically charged, chapters; and...
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Irwin Silverman
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Sep 4, 2006 5:05 pm
... Put a small spin on this and it can be made to simulate the kind of rhetoric used by the segregationists of my generation (e.g. schools benefit when...
Lisa: I can't really say that I "believe" in evolution. Having considered the evidence, I think that evolution by natural selection is the best explanation we...
As I read it, this perspective seems both too cynical and far too relativistic. It denies that we can easily rise above our personal environments which...
Published online: 31 August 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060828-5 Multiple copies of a mystery gene may make us human From mice to monkeys to chimps to people, a...
Call for SubmissionsCall for Submissions 2007 Adult Development Symposium, Boston Pre-conference of the Society for Research in Child Development, SRCD...
The Human Potential for Peace An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions About War and Violence Douglas P. Fry, Ph.D. Ã…bo Akademi University, Finland &...
Tom Merle: Perhaps beliefs in the limited way we were referring to them are culturally bound. But verification based knowledge is able to transcend "our...
Published online: 30 August 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060828-3 Nuns go under the brain scanner Imaging study shows that godly experiences trigger a network...
Barbara S. Held, Ph.D. "Positive Psychology: Virtue and Vice" Sept 28, 2006 6 p.m. St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, University of New England, Biddeford,...
There has been a lot of 'opinion' passing back and forth on this subject. The Oxford English Dictionary is an authority on the meaning of words and we find...
We NEED a word for the state of "being committed to the truth" of a claim. In common parlance, we often use the word 'think' for that purpose, but it's too...
... Benny, See the preface of MacDonald's book at: http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/Preface.htm See a post in this list from William Scott Scherk from Dec, 9, 2003,...
... RKS: I don't think we've exhausted the dictionary just yet :) I prefer 'understanding' as in "...it is my understanding that.." or "...I understand...
Dear all, Today, the media is filled with weekly, even daily, news about the brain and how it is responsible for behaviour and our mental lives. As a field,...
For those who, even with their own personal jet plane, can't make it to Maine, this seems to be the lecture: ...
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George Parrish
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Sep 5, 2006 3:31 pm
Jeremy Is not science that word "we NEED"? I believe in science. I have faith in science. Therefore I am a scientist. Science is The Way. I love science. ...
MSNBC.com ... Iran's leader calls for purge of liberal professors Ahmadinejad says 'change has begun' to staffing in country's universities The Associated...
