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Busy with Genealogy

2007-11-25T13:36:14Z

Besides life getting busy one major reason why I have not been posting much is that I have been busy organizing the family genealogy. I inherited the old family pictures when my grandparents died so I recently scanned them and posted them all on F...

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The Two Sources of the Genesis Flood Myth

2007-11-18T12:37:18Z

Biblical scholars have long realized that the flood myth in the Bible is compilation of two older but parallel stories, one from the northern kingdom of Israel (called the E source) and the other from the southern kingdom of Judah (called the J so...

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Name Mentioned in Biblical Book Jeremiah Found in Babylonian Tablet

2007-11-03T13:52:05Z

Some recent news from archeology seems to confirm to the historical accuracy of the book of Jeremiah. The full article can be found in the latest issue of Archeology. Austrian Assyriologist Michael Jursa recently discovered the financial record ...

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Wisdom and Foundations of Morality

2007-10-14T12:06:24Z

In an era when many many moral rules seem to be arbitrarily based on culture we need a deeper foundation. Simple observation shows that humans are motivated by various and often different interests and desires. We know now that these interests ar...

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Dirty Bombs and the Mysterious Israeli Air Strike on Syria

2007-10-11T13:20:47Z

Some information is finally beginning to leak out about why Israel bombed a certain place in Syria recently. Some in the U.S. government led by Vice President Dick Cheney believe Israeli intelligence when they claim that the work was nuclear relat...

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Iran's Nuclear Program

2007-10-06T12:44:50Z

With all the concern about Iran's nuclear program and its potential for nuclear proliferation and war I though I had better start tracking developments more closely in an attempt to cut through the political posturing. A good article on the histo...

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Good News - North Korea to Give up Nuclear Weapons

2007-10-04T10:52:30Z

The last few months has seen significant progress with North Korea. Yesterday North Korea agreed to begin dismantling its key nuclear facilities. A good report on that is from the Washington Post here . Today North and South Korea agreed to work t...

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So What is Bush Trying to Hide?

2007-10-01T22:28:27Z

The New York Times has just published a post by the A.P. in which a judge has just overturned a Bush Executive order allowing Presidents to prevent the publication of any thing coming out of the executive office. The article is here Here is a cop...

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The Executive Brain by Elkhonon Goldberg - 2001

2007-09-30T15:56:05Z

This is a book mostly about the human pre-frontal cortex by a leading psychological neurologist who escaped from the Soviet Union. So not only will you get some brain information but also the story of the author's professional life. To hear an p...

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See-Through Frogs Developed in Japan

2007-09-29T20:35:01Z

This must be frog week. A news post from Yahoo News here reports that researchers in Japan have bred a line of frogs with skin you can see-through. The full article is here since I don't think Yahoo News keeps their news posts up for archival pur...

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