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9Nov/140

Police Arrest 90-Year-Old and Two Pastors for Feeding Homeless People – NationofChange

Police Arrest 90-Year-Old and Two Pastors for Feeding Homeless People - NationofChange.

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9Nov/140

The West’s Dangerous Enchantment with Islam

The West's Dangerous Enchantment with Islam.

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8Nov/140

BBC News – Low oxygen ‘delayed animal life on Earth’

More grist for Dawkin's extended phenotype argument, although the excitement will really only start when the argument is turned on its head!

BBC News - Low oxygen 'delayed animal life on Earth'.

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8Nov/140

With Some Dating Apps: Less Casual Sex Than Casual Text – NYTimes.com

These are early days.

With Some Dating Apps: Less Casual Sex Than Casual Text - NYTimes.com.

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7Nov/140

Genetically Modified Potato Is Approved by U.S.D.A. – NYTimes.com

Genetically Modified Potato Is Approved by U.S.D.A. - NYTimes.com.

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7Nov/140

Exit interview: Jim Sinclair talks past, present, and future of the labour movement | rabble.ca

company to pay off their settlements.

via Exit interview: Jim Sinclair talks past, present, and future of the labour movement | rabble.ca.

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7Nov/140

BBC News – Bodybuilder, 93, with winning muscles

BBC News - Bodybuilder, 93, with winning muscles.

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6Nov/140

Decoding Desire – The Nature of Things – CBC Player

Decoding Desire - The Nature of Things - CBC Player.

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6Nov/140

In a Mother’s Milk, Nutrients, and a Message, Too – NYTimes.com

The interesting implication has to do with the cavalier way we partition progeny from parents and the parent-child nexus from 'the world'.

The more we learn about these subtle proceedings the less this  partitioning makes sense.

And then there is the matter of Richard Dawkins' talk about extended phenotypes.

If we continue dismantling the significance of phenotypes and melding parents and progeny into seamless concatenations, what is going on will eventually swim into view.

In a Mother’s Milk, Nutrients, and a Message, Too - NYTimes.com.

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6Nov/140

BBC News – ‘Disabled’ bodybuilder Peter Beddoe jailed for fraud

Here is an example of a human being having a series of conscious episodes generating a sense of entitlement flying in the face of common sense.

How could anyone imagine that a claim for disability support would not be compromised by winning a body-building contest?

The answer can only be that there are no anyones.  There can only be concatenating conscious episodes imagining themselves  as distinct individuals with separately evolving souls.

This is how Mr Beddoe's was able to rationalize a claim involving an infirmity that catalysed an increasingly robust  life.

BBC News - 'Disabled' bodybuilder Peter Beddoe jailed for fraud.

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