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Dawkins: How dare you call me a fundamentalist

Posted on 2007-07-11 by site admin

In How dare you call me a fundamentalist the Times online presents an excerpt from Richard Dawkins’ introduction to the paperback edition of ‘The God Delusion’ in which he responds to some critics of the hard cover edition.

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mathschallenge.net

Posted on 2007-06-30 by site admin

mathschallenge.net Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

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NYTimes Reviews Andrew Keen’s Nonsense

Posted on 2007-06-30 by site admin

In The Cult of the Amateur – Andrew Keen – Books – Review – New York Times Michiko Kakutani delivers a fawning review of Andrew Keen’s diatribe against open media. According to Kakutani Mr. Keen argues that “what the Web … Continue reading →

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Climate change: A guide for the perplexed – earth – 16 May 2007 – New Scientist Environment

Posted on 2007-06-29 by site admin

Climate change: A guide for the perplexed – earth – 16 May 2007 – New Scientist Environment

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CSS Scale Images

Posted on 2007-04-13 by site admin

This CSS Scale Image Html Tutorial may help save the theme from breaking up when the browser’s text presentation is resized.

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Including Pages in WPSearch

Posted on 2007-04-13 by site admin

This is a hack by ‘RandomRandy’ of the wp-includes/query.php file which does the job for WP2.1

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EdTechPost: Blackboard Patent and Prior Art

Posted on 2006-08-02 by site admin

Scott Leslie comments in his EdTechPost on the Blackboard Patent and Prior Art. I find the patenting of obvious and/or commonplace techniques and concepts to be grossly offensive and believe that I will now find it necessary to avoid any … Continue reading →

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AlterNet: Evidence of Election Fraud Grows in Mexico

Posted on 2006-08-02 by site admin

AlterNet: Evidence of Election Fraud Grows in Mexico

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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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BCcampus Online Communities –

Posted on 2006-05-15 by site admin

BCcampus Online Communities – “BCcampus EdTech Online” will be discussing on-line testing on Wed May 17 @noon

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Silence: A short history of our atoms

Posted on 2006-05-12 by site admin

Silence: A short history of our atoms is actually a posting by Dutch blogger Renee Alkmar about the idea of science as a form of religion. I arrived there via the link from the author’s March21 comment on the Jan24 … Continue reading →

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Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

Posted on 2006-05-12 by site admin

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

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Philosophy Talk: The Blog: Does Truth Matter?

Posted on 2006-04-27 by site admin

From the ‘PhilosophyTalk’ blog, Ken Taylor’s posting on Does Truth Matter? leads to a discussion in which the question of whether the question has a well defined answer becomes one of the issues to address. But although “Truth matters” may … Continue reading →

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