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Is The Future of Faith Transdenomination?
I was born to a non practicing Methodist Father and a practicing Catholic Mother and raised around my mothers Catholic Latin family. When I became a teen my mother told me that if I went to church from now on it would be my choice. That was the day I stopped going to church with my mother.How do you showcase your science nerdiness?
I'm a high school science teacher (Chem, Earth, credentialed in Bio, but not teaching it). I did research in academia before becoming a teacher, but I've always been a science nerd :) There are the requisite photos of me on Christmas morning opening a microscope kit when I was 10 or so. So, what form does your science nerdiness take?Questions for Obama's science guy
Questions for Obama's science guy By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist / January 18, 2009 (Boston Globe) IN NOMINATING John Holdren to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy - the position known informally as White House science adviser - President-elect Barack Obama has enlisted an undisputed Big Name among academic environmentalists. Holdren is a physicist, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, director of the Woods Hole Research Center, and author or coauthor of many papers and books. He is also a doom-and-gloomer with a trail of erroneous apocalyptic forecasts dating back nearly 40 years - and a decided lack of tolerance for environmental opinions that conflict with his.Rethink Stem Cells? Science Already Has
Rethink Stem Cells? Science Already Has By NICHOLAS WADE (NYT science section) Published: March 9, 2009 With soaring oratory, President Obama on Monday removed a substantial practical nuisance that has long made life difficult for stem cell researchers. He freed biomedical researchers using federal money (a vast majority) to work on more than the small number of human embryonic stem cell lines that were established before Aug.Quote from Wallace D. Wattles from The Science of Being Great
The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere.Did You Know These Science Facts......
Random Science Bits
Many plants and animals are capable of producing visible
light. The scientific term for this phenomenon is
bioluminescence.
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Sperm Whales have the heaviest brain of any living animal.
Recommendations for good science fiction or fantasy please!
I'm coming off a long dry spell of not reading very much at all -- my schedule hasn't allowed it -- and I'm really eager to go to the bookstore or library and make up for lost time. I've got my eye on Robert Parker's new book High Profile, and Lawrence Block's Lucky at Cards, so I am good on mystery/suspense for the moment. What can people recommend to me for good new science fiction and fantasy (or even old science fiction and fantasy)?The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass, by Jamie Goode
This new book is reviewed at http://www.vinography.com/archives/2007/11/book_review_the_science_of_win_1.html and based on the review, it's something I am buying. There is so much that is subjective in evaluation and conversation about wine, and this book gives reasoned responses on some of the big controversies about wine.Burning Question: At What Temperature Is a Turkey Cooked?
No matter what kind of turkey you'll be having this year, there's one question you'll need the answer to: What temperature does a turkey need to reach in order be considered "done"?
Until last year, the USDA recommended cooking turkey to an internal temperature of 180ºF. But based on the fact that bacteria threat salmonella cannot withstand temperatures of 160ºF after 30 seconds, the FDA now suggests a minimum internal temperature of 165ºF as measured by a food thermometer in the innermost part of the thigh and wing and the thickest part of the breast.
Why Give Thanks?
One reason, it is actually good for your health!
Say ‘thank you’— it’s for your health
But to feel better you have to show gratitude more than just once a year
updated 12:02 p.m. CT, Wed., Nov .
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