links for 2008-12-25
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"We should try to make science more sexy and more fun and more like a game," he said.
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They cite a 2007 study by the Harvard School of Public Health which found that regular daytime naps can help reduce the risk of heart disease by up to 37 per cent.
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For later.
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(I gently disagree.) Nevertheless, is this a racial problem?
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TED, food and narratives about food. Bliss.
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Believing that philosophy has been wrongly described as the handmaiden of the sciences, she seeks instead to approximate it to art, poetry and religion, as part of a systematic attempt to make sense of the human condition and to show the place in the natural world of beings like us.
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And that ruins everything, of course.
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(It's right here.) Choose a recipe from a reputable source and stick to it to guarantee both successful baking and to try the cake as the originator of the recipe intended it to taste.
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Haven't we all cursed the roasted/grilled bell peppers during the tedious procedure of peeling their charred skin?
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Yum, almost nommy.
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Hi Kids! I bet you're wondering why you haven't heard from us in a while, and why, suddenly, the maps look all different and stuff.
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The natural history of homosexuality, too, goes beyond genetics.
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"Free speech has to be free speech for everybody,'' he says. "Some people feel today if you disagree with them that’s hate speech…I’m neither afraid of gays, nor do I hate gays. In fact, I love them, but I do disagree with some of their beliefs, and I have that constitutional right.''
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I find it hard to believe that the food halls can be profitable; part of the spectacle is the volume and variety of every sort of food imaginable, and though the prices are suitably dear, it is easier for me to believe the food halls are more loss leader than profit center. Does anyone know?
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The demonstration shows that alternative visual paths available in the brain allow people to orient themselves and rapidly detect obstacles in the environment without any conscious attention or experience of seeing them. "It's a part of our vision that's for orienting and doing in the world rather than for understanding," she said. "All the time, we are using hidden resources of our brain and doing things we think we are unable to do."
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No holiday season is complete without lists.
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It's important to correct these false perceptions—as long as nobody tries to mess with the strawberry syrup-covered broccoli.
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It has been a busy past few weeks at the Speakers’ Corner, and as of mid—December, there were 108 registrations for activities, of which two in 10 were for demonstrations. And observers are optimistic that activities at the Speakers’ Corner will be sustained, given the desire for political space in Singapore to be further relaxed, by a generation weaned on the internet and new media.
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One experience central to major religions around the world is that of transcendence, the idea of almost losing a sense of self to the feeling that there’s something bigger out there. Now scientists at the University of Missouri say they’ve located that experience in our brains.
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The Education Minister can say we are being emotional.
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The good news is, when the present is unwrapped there’s nothing to be thrown away!
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This is not a travel book so much as an omnium-gatherum for those who like to ride what was once called "the marrow bone coach.
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- December 26, 2008 / 8:03 am
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