Descartes

Are We The Reason For The Universe's Existence? The Anthropic Principle Reconsidered

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 03.18.2012

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Indeed, the Universe, as science has revealed it, bears little resemblance to the description of Divine creation in various Scriptures.

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Mental Illness Is Brain Illness

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 12.06.2011

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The mind does not exert power on the brain nor does the brain exert power on the mind. Mind is an emergent property of brain. And mental illness is a dysfunction of both sides of the coin.

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Home Maintenance for the Over-50 Bachelor

Bryan J Miller | Posted 01.25.2012

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Bachelor housekeeping is like sex--best approached spontaneously and with little regard for the fitted sheets.

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Libraries: Information and Knowledge Spaces II

Carla Leitao | Posted 11.27.2011

Libraries are located at a unique intersection of spatial design. They are spaces that store, articulate and distribute formats (media), which are vessels of information.

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Bachmann Denies Picking Descartes as Running Mate

Mark Steinberg | Posted 11.25.2011

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"Rene won't say anything until he can prove it, meaning that he'll pretty much always miss the news cycle. Let me tell you, if I had waited until I had facts to support everything I've said I'd never be where I am today."

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Who Cares if Animals Feel?

Ari Solomon | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Factory Farming, Animal-Sentience, Descartes, Animals, Animal Testing, Animal Abuse, Ethics, Green News

Instead of presuming that animals feel nothing, and that experiences such as fear and pain are innately human, why don't we err on the side of caution and assume that animals do feel something.

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Get Thee to a Library! Unsung Hero of 41st St: Library Way

Lily Bevan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Muriel Rukeyser, Descartes, Libraries, Josi Marti, Tom Stoppard, Willa Cather, Nypl, Stephen Schwarzman, New York News

Where better to joke about the tumultuous nature of literature than on a plaque the size of a puddle on the approach to one of the most important libraries in the world.

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We're Giving Our Money Away

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Europa '51 is very rare, not available on DVD, but this Friday, August 6, at 6 p.m. EDT, Turner Classic Movies will run it. I urge you to see it.

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Kids in Deep Conversation

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Creativity, Kids, Deep Conversations, Descartes, Education, Philosophy, The Early Years, Plato, Elementary School, Kids and Philosophy, Parenting, Happiness, Healthy Living News

The New York Times recently reported on a school where 8 year olds are being taught philosophy. That doesn't mean they're being grounded in the though...

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Stolen Descartes Lette Found Through Internet Search

AFP | AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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A stolen letter written by 17th-century thinker Descartes and found in the United States was returned to France Tuesday, ending a detective tale featu...

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Descartes's Stolen Letter Found

The New York Times | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800...

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