hey -- There's a group called Redefining Progress, on whose website you can take the "ecological footprint" test. The idea is this: there's a certain amount...
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paul brake writes: << By the way, when did we collectively decide that now that we have reached this point in our evolution, that we should now intervene in ...
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Jun 8, 2000 7:17 am
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hey -- I just got an email from one of my kids, and its substance was a high school graduation speech. She wasn't the valedictorian, but she decided to write...
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Jun 8, 2000 7:23 am
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a nice bit of opinion from the dallas morning news about the recent supreme court decision on school prayer. considering that people usually turn their brains...
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Jun 23, 2000 11:18 am
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hey - here's an article from southerner.net -- a great bit of investigative journalism by fetzer mills, about the flooding in north carolina. the irresponsible...
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Jun 26, 2000 9:28 am
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B Why the silence on your "Mother Church's" decision to kick out female preachers? I would have expected hot and heavy debates on this subject. Cousin, Tim...
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Jun 26, 2000 9:52 pm
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hey, tim -- ... well, for me it isn't much of a matter of debate. Every two years the southern baptist convention meets and decides to make a big embarrassing ...
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Jun 27, 2000 12:38 am
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Well said, Barry! I think is is *not* well understood, even for staunch Baptists, that the resolutions generated at the conventions are non-binding, and that...
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Jun 28, 2000 3:40 pm
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Dear Barry and Others: If the Virgin Mary descended from heaven to attend the Southern Baptist Convention, would they tell her that she is unqualified to be a...
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Jun 29, 2000 3:44 pm
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... probably. (although, not being catholic, there would be no vested interest in preserving the fiction that she remained a virgin -- Jesus did, after all,...
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While we're all out playing golf, camping, cooking out with family, going to the swim club or lake, or whatever else we do on the holiday tomorrow, wouldn't...
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Jul 3, 2000 9:35 pm
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don't know if you're aware of this development in the news, but it's one of those "unseen impact" things. from tidbits. -- barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Jul 4, 2000 8:59 am
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Rich I read the Jacoby column and pinned it on the bulletin board. Very impressive piece. Tim...
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Jul 6, 2000 2:37 pm
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a friend passes this along... -- barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2, 2000 Michael Kelley Commentary, Memphis Commercial Appeal DECLARATION...
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Jul 8, 2000 3:50 am
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This is an interesting essay about the future of computing and the Internet. Any regular slashdot readers (http://www.slashdot.org) will probably have already...
Aaron
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Jul 8, 2000 7:10 pm
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B I guess Jeff Jacoby (Boston Globe columnist) took us all in, didn't he! He has been suspended for four months without pay from the Globe. Why do these ...
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Jul 9, 2000 2:43 am
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Too bad. I didn't know about Jacoby's suspension. I could see the G. Hildreath (whatever his name was)stuff being junk, spread aimlessly by email. But you'd...
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Jul 11, 2000 4:14 pm
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hey -- here's an interesting article from the hartford advocate about the practice of neurofeedback -- related to biofeedback, where gizmos that are hooked up...
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Jul 26, 2000 1:20 pm
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That is an interesting article, and I'm not at all surprised by the experiences and good results people are having. Some of the resistance in the field may be...
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Jul 27, 2000 6:15 pm
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The fact is that you and I already use energy from "alternative" (that is, not fossil fuel) sources. Here's a handy quiz -- ten questions -- from enn to see...
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Jul 31, 2000 8:10 pm
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true, "Erin Brockovich" was a crowd-pleasing good movie; that, of course, almost guarantees that its basis in reality is slightly thin. a few months ago salon...
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Aug 11, 2000 7:18 pm
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true, "Erin Brockovich" was a crowd-pleasing good movie; that, of course, almost guarantees that its basis in reality is slightly thin. a few months ago salon...
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Aug 11, 2000 7:20 pm
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most of the jobs we've had to do over the last 150 years have had newer and newer machines associated with them; sometimes (as in the typewriter) the machine...
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Aug 13, 2000 5:52 am
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... it works! jason young forwards this news that some guy built one from the notebook of leonardo da vinci -- a 500-year-old design! ...
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Aug 21, 2000 11:33 pm
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here's a review of the latest by richard rorty, a notorious troublemaker in the worlds of philosophy and culture. ...
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Aug 29, 2000 7:10 am
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hey gang -- you know, I keep going back and forth on the issue of school vouchers. It is a bit dangerous to lean that closely to establishment; but the market...
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Oct 9, 2000 7:49 pm
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B The primary argument against is that some folks will not or cannot make decisions in the best interest of their children. Thus, it follows, those parents...
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Oct 10, 2000 1:41 pm
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Barry, et. al., An interesting topic. I direct your attention to the current New Yorker (not available online, so if you don't subscribe, grab a coffee and...
Paul Brake
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Oct 10, 2000 4:12 pm
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Thought some would enjoy this little story of number theory from FERMAT'S ENIGMA by Simon Singh... "...no amount of evidence is enough to satisfy...
Paul Brake
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Jan 9, 2001 12:28 am
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... interesting! and even more so because that's how we think day in and day out. the basis, in fact, of the empirical temperament is that by testing 1,000...
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