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POPSessay on creationism vs evolution long essay talking about how many who defend evolutionary theory need to rethink their approach because often their responses to creationists are inflammatory (thus hundering honest open debate) and/or do not reflect actual science. the essay deals specifically with the origin of life, and is a response to a couple other essys/blogs that are linked to.
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POPSSCIENTISTS SHOW HALLUCINOGEN CREATES UNIVERSAL “MYSTICAL” EXPERIENCE in the 1950s, showed signs of therapeutic potential or value in research into the nature of consciousness and sensory perception. “Human consciousness…is a function of the ebb and flow of neural impulses in various regions of the brain-the very substrate that drugs such as psilocybin act upon,” Schuster says. “Understanding what mediates these effects is clearly within the realm of neuroscience and deserves investigation.” “A vast gap exists between what we know of these drugs-mostly from descriptive anthropology-and what we believe we can understand using modern clinical pharmacology techniques,” says study leader Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a professor with Hopkins’ departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Biology. “That gap is large because, as a reaction to the excesses of the 1960s, human research with hallucinogens has been basically frozen in time these last forty years.”
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POPSBritish scientist hopes for 'yeti hair' breakthrough Redmond admitted his excitement at a potential scientific breakthrough was tinged with fear. "My concern is that if we do find something unusual, it will be from a very small population of animals and I would want to talk to the state government and Indian government so they are not inundated with people trying to catch one for a museum. "I want us to approach this in a 21st century and not a 19th century way."
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POPSGo to a Baseball Game The article is about studies that say married couples who have fun together--no matter the activity--are happier. Makes sense right? These "fun" activities are the first to go when times are tight. "Tight" might be in time, finances, or emotions. Find some way to have fun with your spouse this week.
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POPSTrading Systems Rated - This site has real Trading System reviews I found this site and it's great if you're looking for the best trading systems from Forex, CFD, Option, Futures or as a Day Trader or someone looking for Automated trading systems... it has it all. Looks like it could do with some exprienced traders adding more reviews, but until then it's a one stop shop for pretty much every trading system on the market today.
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POPSPotential Paradigm Shift? I am always wary of ideas that glorify computers as the best (and perhaps only true) way to understand the functions of the world and life. However, this one is slightly different from the ones I've seen before, so...maybe?
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POPSAncients and modern evolutionists still pondering the same questions. It would appear that for over 1500 years the debate has raged over the origin of life. Natural Theology, published in 1802 by William Paley, discussed the evidence for design using the "inferred watchmaker" analogy. The majority of scientists at that time professed belief in a Creator, in one way or another. This was reflected in their studies. To some extent, design was assumed. Evolution lacked a reasonable engine to drive biological change. When Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species" in 1859, those who preferred evolution had a seemingly plausible mechanism to explain it - natural selection. Almost 150 years later, the scientific community at large speaks of the "facts" of evolution. Those who propose non-natural causes for biologic effects are soon branded as "ignorant," "superstitious," or "closed-minded." Some things never change...
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POPSMapping Kerouac: The Grammatical Artwork of Stefanie Posavec Posavec dissects every word, phrase, sentence, and subject of Kerouac's On the Road to invent new ways of looking at the familiar masterpiece. The diagrams make for beautiful art in their own right. (See source for high-res pictures.) In her structure analysis, each chapter explodes in a color-coded starburst of topical breakdowns. At a glance, you can see Kerouac's focus wander from the sketches of local life in the beginning, to depictions of work and travel in the middle, with women and the subject of love dominating the latter chapters. The comparative sentence diagrams are what really drew me in. It's fascinating to behold an entire literary work all at once on one page. What's more, Kerouac's casual prose style can be differentiated immediately from the stately, grandiose writing of Faulkner, not to mention the terse, claustrophobic style of Orwell's fiction. Literary reductionism at its most fun and beautiful.
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POPSSydney's stressed brains are shrinking There was another conclusion suggested for the reason those subjects from Melbourne had more 'grey matter' than those from Sydney, which was that the brains of Sydneysiders had eliminated unnecessary neural pathways, connections and links, so making their brains more efficient. There was also the possibility considered that another reason for the differences, is that Sydney brains were too mature to spend too much time thinking about sport. They didn't need as large an amount of gray matter to remember football scores.
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POPSLand of the FREE??? Intelligence Disallowed! Casting stupidity in stone? Now the POLICE are the thought police implementers too! Freedom of speech? Gone! Freedom of expression? Gone! Freedom of thought? Going soon, at a place near you. Maybe you did get the president that you truly deserve!!! Samson and the Temple revere in my brain. If there was a god, maybe justice would justify a world collapse with this refutation of the intelligence of mankind !!!
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POPSImproving U.S. Global HIV Prevention for Youth In March 2005, the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) issued a policy directive entitled “ABC Guidance #1: For United States Government In-Country Staff and Implementing Partners Applying the ABC Approach to Preventing Sexually-Transmitted HIV Infections Within The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.” The purpose of the guidance was to clarify the implementation of the Abstinence, Be Faithful, Condoms (ABC) approach within the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) while taking into consideration the abstinence-until-marriage earmark mandated by Congress in the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003. Due to clipmarking restrictions, I could only quote the headlines, which, at least, refer to the informative content.
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POPSRoots of depression? No one magic remedy can replace alert social position, sensible physical and mental activity, responsible approach to any moment of our life, love, kindness and respect.
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