Monthly Archives: July 2006

Peter Huber Defends Big Pharma

Posted on 2006-07-31 by site admin

Commentary – Of Pills and Profits: In Defense of Big Pharma “If you like the way Canada operates its health-care system, you will never like the way Big Pharma does drugs.”

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AlterNet Readers on Religion and Politics

Posted on 2006-07-31 by site admin

AlterNet: Readers Write: The Growing Threat of Right-Wing Christians Does faith have a role in politics? AlterNet readers react to an article about right-wing Christians — and end up questioning the legitimacy of religion itself.

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Brin: The Decadence Excuse

Posted on 2006-07-31 by site admin

Contrary Brin: The Decadence Excuse… The Song Sung by All Our Foes. comments on the anti-intellectual attitudes of bushite right wing america

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The New Yorker: Fact

Posted on 2006-07-27 by site admin

This article about Wikipedia in the New Yorker continues the debate about how much need there is for “authority” in order for such a resource to be useful. My own view is that all information sources should be taken with … Continue reading →

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Reviews: ‘Illusions of identity’ by Kenan Malik | Prospect Magazine August 2006 issue 125

Posted on 2006-07-27 by site admin

Reviews: ‘Illusions of identity’ by Kenan Malik | Prospect Magazine August 2006 issue 125

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Philosophy of Real Mathematics: Dawid on probabilities

Posted on 2006-07-26 by site admin

Philosophy of Real Mathematics: Dawid on probabilities

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Producing mathematics for the Web

Posted on 2006-07-23 by site admin

Producing mathematics for the Web is a posting by Zac in Singapore on his ‘squareCircleZ’ blog about the tools he uses to produce his Interactive Mathematics website

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Welsey Fryer on “Modern-day Gnosticism”

Posted on 2006-07-21 by site admin

In this posting on “Modern day gnosticism” edTech blogger Wesley Fryer revisits an earlier discussion of Elaine Pagel’s book “Beyond Belief : The Secret Gospel of Thomas.” This may be someone worth engaging with regard to why people adopt religion … Continue reading →

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Contrary Brin: An Interesting Guest Posting…

Posted on 2006-07-20 by alan

Contrary Brin: An Interesting Guest Posting…

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The Pig and the Box

Posted on 2006-07-18 by alan

Push the Third Button Twice: The Pig and the Box comes from ‘MCM’ in Victoria via Michael Geist and Stephen Downes. It’s about the despicable attempt by the Canadian Copyright Crew to introduce biased materials into the early education curriculum

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squareCircleZ on teaching gambling in math

Posted on 2006-07-16 by alan

squareCircleZ: Should we teach gambling in math classes?

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MT on BF

Posted on 2006-07-12 by alan

Mark Twain’s “The Late Benjamin Franklin”

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Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion

Posted on 2006-07-12 by alan

This post was linked to from an article in AlterNet on the “Christian” right wing tactic of publishing home addresses of oppponents.

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A Quote from M Willett

Posted on 2006-07-12 by alan

In Evil and the Satan Hypothesis mwillet says: Doesn’t it make sense just to live a good life and avoid doing anything you will later be ashamed of? That’s not to presume there is a life after death, just a … Continue reading →

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Does Islam deserve respect?

Posted on 2006-07-12 by alan

Does Islam deserve respect?

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Memes and the Christian

Posted on 2006-07-12 by alan

This extended exchange of emails between an atheist and a christian posted by Martin Willett doesn’t really resolve anything but may eventually lead somewhere

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Debate Unlimited by Martin Willett

Posted on 2006-07-12 by alan

Debate Unlimited by Martin Willett

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Mashup.DarwinianWeb.com: Creating my first Google map by hand

Posted on 2006-07-07 by alan

Mashup.DarwinianWeb.com: Creating my first Google map by hand

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Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld

Posted on 2006-07-06 by alan

democracyarsenal.org on the Guantanamo ruling It’s time to really expose the falseness of the Bushites’ claims to represent what are claimed to be true American values (or, less likely, for them to show the world that they can truly accept … Continue reading →

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