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Monthly Archive for December, 2008

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On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin looks at Biomimetics, a new movement in science that adapts designs from nature to solve problems in engineering, materials science, medicine, and other fields. While engineers and other researchers turn to nature for guidance and inspiration in producing human technology, the positive [...]

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Reviewed by Julian Hall
Before this gathering of comedians, musicians and scientists to celebrate their own Holy Trinity of Christmas – namely the secular, the rational and the scientific – I felt that what I was about to see was as much a kind of alternative Royal [...]

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By Kate Scroggins, National Post
After wandering through a snowstorm and sub-zero temperatures for nearly three days, a 55-year-old Ancaster woman was found alive, saved by the very snow that buried her.

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Feel Good: Give Your Time

Just as money is getting tighter than Michael Phelps’ abs, along comes the news that giving is good for you. Fortunately, you don’t have to dole out a Wii to everyone from your dog walker to the drycleaner to reap the benefits.
It’s acts of kindness, such as running to the pharmacy for a sick friend [...]

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Written By David Walsh
President-elect Barack Obama’s various appointments and political choices are taking on an almost provocative character. The Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced Wednesday that Rick Warren, a right-wing millionaire evangelist, will lead the opening prayers at Obama’s swearing-in ceremony January 20.

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He claims not to be a member of best friend Tom Cruise’s favored religion, but that didn’t stop Will Smith donating a hefty £79,000 this year to its causes.
The generous Hancock actor gave away $1.3 million to charitable causes this year, with the equivalent of £79,000 going to three Scientology projects.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A mother, two kids and two dogs, stuck in a stalled car. Then along came Larry!
I’m a working professional mom of two beautiful little children, ages 3 and 2. I also have two Westie dogs, ages 4 and 1. I always enjoy a challenge, and having a family with little ones so close in [...]

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Written by Darah Hansen, Vancouver Sun
This year, as she has in the past, Vancouver resident Virginia Evans is giving someone the gift of sight for Christmas.
Evans, a student of Tibetan Buddhism, is a longtime supporter of Seva Canada, a Vancouver-based charity that works in seven different countries in Asia and Africa, including Tibet, to eliminate [...]

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By Edward Lotterma
Another shoe has dropped with the exposure of the Bernard Madoff fraud, in which an investment manager is said to have bilked investors out of $50 billion in a massive Ponzi scheme.
This criminal fiasco poses fundamental questions about how human nature contributes to the extremes of the business cycle we call booms and [...]

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A Thinker for Our Times

Written by Robert Skidelsky
John Maynard Keynes has been restored to life. Rusty Keynesian tools – larger budget deficits, tax cuts, accelerated spending programmes and other “economic stimuli” – have been brought back into use the world over to cut off the slide into depression. And they will do the job, if not next year, the [...]

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