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Big History Hits the Big Time

Rev. Michael Dowd | Posted 05.08.2012 | Science
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Rev. Michael Dowd

This new, cross-disciplinary field that embraces cosmic, geological, and biological history (as well as human history) offers an inspiring way forward through the thorny and tangled bank of the science-and-religion debate.

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What Killed Lenin?

AP | ALEX DOMINGUEZ | Posted 07.04.2012 | World
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By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press BALTIMORE — Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contra...

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Digital Fire: A Manifesto

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.01.2012 | Books
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Russell C. Smith

If you are alive, engaged, alert, ready with a spark inside -- you're open to the idea of reinvention happening on a global scale. Welcome, we've been expecting you.

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The Dark Side of Beauty: The Mosque As "Terror Cell"

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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G. Roger Denson

The relationships of cultures are not so very different from the relationships of individuals.

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Part 5: Colonizing the Mosque (Slideshow)

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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G. Roger Denson

With mosques functioning as the local centers of Islamic faith and the object of renewed Western suspicion, it is undeniable that mosques also help keep alive the memory of the divide of civilizations that once rent the world irreparably in two.

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

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