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The Grand Design, Bound Hard

The Grand Design, a new book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, has gained mainstream attention because it contains the statement that it’s not necessary for a supernatural creator being such as...

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Climate Change Can Have Seismic Consequences

Jim notes this morning that last month was among the top 5 hottest Septembers ever, measured in terms of average global temperature. That’s got consequences that go far beyond just that it’s hot (upper...

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God Is Not God

Karen Armstrong, in her book The Case For God, quotes the Greek philosopher Aristotle as writing in Metaphysics, “The act of contemplation [theoria] is what is most pleasant and best. If, then, God is...

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Will Someone Tell Me Why Everyone Loves Game of Thrones?

Last year, everybody was raving about the new Game of Thrones TV series, calling it J.R.R. Tolkien, but subtle. So I picked up the first book from George R.R. Martin (yes, R.R.) and read it. Dishier...

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A More Subtle Ragnarok

This weekend, I finished reading Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, a retelling of the the ancient Norse tale of the Aesir and the destruction of the world, by British author A.S. Byatt. Released in 2011,...

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Review: Independents Rising by Jacqueline Salit

On the first page of the new book Independents Rising, author Jacqueline Salit offers a fair warning: the book is “based on my personal experiences, rather than dictated by a single illuminating and...

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The Indecisive Decision Book

Looking around in an airport bookstore after a flight delay for something to occupy my time, I was having trouble making up my mind. So, I could have regarded it as a piece of good fortune that I came...

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The Culture Of Academic Book Covers

I have never understood why so many academic books have abstract, irrelevant pieces of artwork on their covers, when it would not be difficult to add a photograph or sketch related to the topic of the...

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A Book Of Zoology

I was upset when I saw this afternoon that my children had taken a favorite book about 20 allergy from my own childhood and takend it into the woods, where it was forgotten, left to molder. But then,...

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Mad Science You Can’t Do At Home

This year, I have taken on the responsibility of giving my 13 year-old son some exposure to science in addition to what he gets at school. So, I was excited when I saw a copy of Mad Science:...

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A New Low in Race-Based Immigrant Bashing: “Proving” Somalis Have Lower IQs...

Since I moved to Maine six years ago, I’ve heard a fair number of people tell the story that Somali immigrants have turned Lewiston into the most crime-ridden city in Maine. Two years ago, I decided to...

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John Hagee Speaks: Apparently, Shame isn’t Biblical

You’re Pastor John Hagee. You’ve just spent over a year shooting video after video making prophecies . You’ve been making big profits selling over a million of your CDs and DVDs and Books declaring...

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An Other Kingdom For Sale

A few days ago saw the publication of An Other Kingdom: Departing Consumer Culture, by Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight. It’s a book that… …well, if you want to find out what the authors...

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