Links With Your Coffee - Tuesday
- Who do YOU trust in?
(tip to pedantsareus)
- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Doctor Who assistant is unveiled
- Why Can’t We Talk Like This? - Dick Cavett Blog - NYTimes.com
How many people have you met whose conversation is instantly publishable?
There can never be more than a handful of such people living at any given time. My peculiar line of work has allowed me to meet a few. Of those I had the great good fortune to sit with on the air, first to mind come Noel Coward, Peter Ustinov and Jonathan Miller.
- Technology Review: Gene Defect Corrected in Human Stem Cells
- Essay - ‘Angels and Demons’ Plays Out Religion-Science Conflict - NYTimes.com
This may seem like a happy ending. Faith and science reconciled or at least holding their fire in the face of mystery. But for me that moment ruined what had otherwise been a pleasant two hours on a rainy afternoon. It crystallized what is wrong with the entire way that popular culture regards science. Scientists and academics are smart, but religious leaders are wise.
These smart alecks who know how to split atoms and splice genes need to be put in their place by older steadier hands.
It was as if the priest had patted Einstein on the head and chuckled, “Never mind, Sonny, some day you’ll understand.”
- FRANK O´HARA READS "HAVING A COKE WITH YOU"
Comments
"doctor who assistant is unveiled"
Call me old-fashioned, but doesn't anybody check their grammar any more? Shouldn't that be "doctor whose assistant is unveiled"?
And besides that, why is this item noteworthy at all? Aren't virtually all doctor's assistants in the West unveiled?
I don't get it.
Well, that's the US Treasury building there. The obvious meaning is: Geithner is God. Now for those of you who might think that's a tad hyperbolic of the government, just consider that Elie Wiesel thought the same about Bernie Madoff...
Will Dr. Who have the Jonas Brothers play the opening soundtrack? Seems like they are trying too hard to get the teenybopper crowd interested in the show. Let's hope they don't dumb down the episodes like American shows do.
Sorry Doug, but Doctor Who BEGAN as a series for youngsters - in 1963 the first series was shown on BBC's Children's Television. It has developed in a number of ways over the last 40-odd years and a 'return' to its roots wouldn't be amazing - although I don't think it will happen.
Look at the history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HistoryofDoctor_Who
A little history: The "In God We Trust" slogan on U.S. paper money was the idea of Congress in 1954 and signed by Eisenhower. It was the same directive that changed the Pledge of Allegiance to include "Under God..." which was not included when it was written by a Baptist minister in 1892. The first paper money with "In God We Trust" appeared in 1957 - the same time the Pledge was changed in public schools. U.S. coins got that slogan in 1908 - that time too by order of Congress. President Roosevelt vetoed it, though, as he thought it was blasphemous. Congress overrode the veto. The slogan did appear before 1908 on a Civil War era two cent piece that appeared in 1864 and ended production in 1873. That time it was the Secretary of the Treasury who directed the use of the slogan. It's believed that the 1954 action was to show the godless Russians how much better people we were. Now the religious believe torture...
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