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what we don’t know

5 May 2010

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Over a lunch of chicken & rice from my favorite cart today, Dave and I watched this TED talk (embedded below the jump) about the vast diversity of life contained in the oceans that we have very little knowledge of.  One of the things that Edith Widder, the marine biologist who gives the talk, said [...]

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Question Everything

18 March 2010

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I would guess that the popular perception of church is that for all the things that the church may or may not be, it is most definitely not a safe place to ask questions.  (I’m reminded, in writing this, of this episode of Desperate Housewives.  I’ve never watched a full episode, but I loved this [...]

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Is Civility Dead? – pt. 2

12 March 2010

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First, if you haven’t seen Sarah’s comment on the this post on the Facebook side of things, go to my profile.  She had great thoughts.  Here are some further thoughts of mine. I blame the end of civility in our culture on what I will call “the culture of celebrity.” It seems everyone is trying [...]

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