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Thursday, March 20, 2008

This is great.

I can't stop laughing. Read!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Scientist Becomes First Man to Clone Himself

Read the article from Richard Dawkins' site here. This is being condemned by the Vatican and the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. I will not weigh in on the moral issue here. The scientific article can be found in the the journal Stem Cells. It has graciously been made open-access.

Monday, December 17, 2007

A Very Newtonian Christmas

Richard Dawkins wrote a great little piece about the Christian Christmas myth. Also, he reminds us that December 25 is Sir Isaac Newton's birthday. Now that's something to celebrate!

Quote of the Week

"'Don't you believe in flying saucers', they ask me? 'Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?'

'No', I reply. 'No, no, no, no, and again no.'

One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out 'Don't you believe in anything?'

'Yes', I said. 'I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.'"--Isaac Asimov

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Ben's Look at Dianetics

Important Note
BOOK 1: THE GOAL OF MAN
How to Read This Book
Chapter 1: The Scope of Dianetics
Chapter 2: The Clear
Chapter 3: The Goal of Man
Chapter 4: The Four Dynamics
Chapter 5: Summary
BOOK 2: THE SINGLE SOURCE OF ALL INORGANIC AND ORGANIC PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLS
Chapter 1: The Analytical Mind and the Standard Memory Banks
Chapter 2: The Reactive Mind
Chapter 3: The Cell and the Organism
Chapter 4: The "Demons"
Chapter 5: Psychosomatic Illness
Chapter 6: Emotion and the Dynamics
Chapter 7: Prenatal Experience and Birth
Chapter 8: Contagion of Aberration
Chapter 9: Keying in the Engram
Chapter 10: Preventive Dianetics
BOOK THREE: THERAPY
Chapter 1: The Mind's Protection
Chapter 2: Release or Clear
Chapter 3: The Auditor's Role
Chapter 4: Diagnosis
Chapter 5: Returning, the File Clerk and the Time Track
Chapter 6: The Laws of Returning
Chapter 7: Emotion and the Life Force
Chapter 8: Some Types of Engrams
Chapter 9: Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy--Part 1
Chapter 9: Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy--Part 2
Chapter 10: Dianetics--Past and Future
Appendix-- Dianetics: The Bridge to the Future

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

This is great.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Scientist Becomes First Man to Clone Himself

Monday, December 17, 2007

A Very Newtonian Christmas

Quote of the Week

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