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January 21, 2010

A Computer For Your Child?

This year a computer may be on your child’s most wanted gift list. Consider this a good investment if your school-aged child does not already have a computer; it has become essential for survival in school. Having a home computer changes everything. Reports can be typed and saved, research can be conducted at any time [...]

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January 18, 2010

What Darwin Got Wrong

What Darwin Got Wrong is a remarkable book, one that dares to challenge the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works—a devastating critique not in the name of religion but in the name of good science.
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, a distinguished philosopher and a scientist working in tandem, reveal major flaws at the heart of Darwinian evolutionary [...]

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January 14, 2010

Making College ‘Relevant’

THOMAS COLLEGE, a liberal arts school in Maine, advertises itself as Home of the Guaranteed Job! Students who can’t find work in their fields within six months of graduation can come back to take classes free, or have the college pay their student loans for a year. Read more…

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E-Readers Everywhere: The Inevitable Shakeout

Johnny Makkar is intent on buying a digital book reader. Yet he won’t consider any of the more than two dozen new devices introduced in recent months, many of them at the just-completed Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. For Makkar, a resident of Fairlawn, N.J., with a background in marketing, only two manufacturers will do, and one has yet to [...]

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January 13, 2010

Life - A Preview of the Extraordinary BBC Series.

Life - A preview of the series. from Documentally on Vimeo.
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36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

“Comic and supremely witty, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God is both a satire of the academic world and a feast of philosophical and religious ideas.”—Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams
 “You do not have to perpetrate an act of faith to confront the question of why there is something rather than nothing. It is faith [...]

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January 12, 2010

A glorious line of work: Remembering legendary caricaturist DAVID LEVINE

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Stephen Toulmin Dies - Philosopher who was a founding father of argumentation theory

Though Stephen Toulmin, who has died aged 87, was initially famous as one of the leading proponents of the “good reasons” approach in ethics, and went on to write about reasoning, science, philosophy of science and the history of ideas, he was ultimately better known in the US field of communication, and in computer science, than in philosophy. The Uses of Argument [...]

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January 10, 2010

Welcome to Culture Insight presented by Simply Charly

These are conversations with authors and experts who have given us insights into those individuals who have influenced our culture and enriched our lives. Listen here…

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