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I have noticed a resurgence of posts around the blogosphere on intelligent design again. Most are accompanied with assertions that anyone who is taught intelligent design will be less versed, and less knowledgeable in science, and that therefore if the U.S. were to allow such heresy to be taught our hopes of scientific advancement [...]

The Belmont Club offers another must read post:
The belief underlying those anti-war arguments was, in short, an unyielding faith in universal rationality. … And, stirred by that antique idea, the anti-war Socialists gazed across the Rhine and simply refused to believe … in a political movement whose animating principles were paranoid conspiracy theories, blood-curdling hatreds, [...]

CNN.com :
‘The city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation,’ Nagin told WWL TV on Monday night. ‘We probably have 80 percent of our city underwater, with some sections of our city, the water is as deep as 20 feet.’

PhysicsWeb:
Physicists in Germany have created a material that is harder than diamond. Natalia Dubrovinskaia and colleagues at the University of Bayreuth made the new material by subjecting carbon-60 molecules to immense pressures. The new form of carbon, which is known as aggregated diamond nanorods, is expected to have many industrial applications (App. Phys. Lett. 87 [...]

You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant.
Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle.
You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs.
For you, comfort and calm are very important.
You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong.

The World’s Shortest Personality [...]

CTV.ca :
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his government will take legal action against U.S. evangelist Pat Roberton after he called for U.S. agents to kill him.
Chavez said Venezuela might even seek to extradite Robertson. He also warned he would complain to the UN if the U.S. failed to take action.
…
“I announce that my government is [...]

It’s Monday, so The Skeptical Optimist has new posts up. this one on debt and growth has a bit in that matches my philosophy quite closely:
Growth defeats poverty; growth improves both the human condition and the environment; growth eases or eliminates the interest burden of debt; growth results not from greed, but from benevolence; [...]

Semi-Random Ramblings has a very interesting Blog post up:
Two political scientists, Adam Preworski and Fernando Limongi, looked at statistics for every country in the world for the last 60 years. In virtually every country in which democratization has succeeded — and we’re talking about countries like Spain, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Japan, S Korea, Taiwan [...]

Sify.com. Very interesting, go check it out.
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