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Old Skeptical Inquirer article deftly debunks scientific reincarnation "proof"

Wednesday, 25 June 2008 8:17 A GMT-06

Quoting from Empirical evidence for reincarnation? examining Stevenson's 'most impressive' case - author Ian Stevenson | Skeptical Inquirer | Find Articles at BNET:Ian Stevenson's conduct of the Imad Elawar investigation, considered among the strong

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Category: Mystery, Wonders Questions, Questioning Consciousness

Article with shamanic lessons from a business school

Friday, 20 June 2008 12:27 P GMT-06

Here is an article about how not to write a B-school admissions essay with lessons for how to share helpfully in shamanic circles and many other situations:Admissions officers at top business schools like to say they've seen it all when it comes to

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Category: Questions, Questioning Arts

Shapeshifting lessons from GINA car from BMW

Monday, 16 June 2008 8:04 A GMT-06

Video: GINA is a visionary concept model car...all about... "questions...purposes...skin...geometry...infinity...light...emotion...alternatives...being flexible...context over dogma"...sort of like shamanic costuming for a car...the vehicle of

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Category: Sciences, Technologies Questions, Questioning Arts Consciousness Frontiers, Fringes Shifting

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Perfectly Proportioned Legs Keep Water Striders Striding

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

The amazing water strider -- known for its ability to walk on water -- came within just a hair of sinking into evolutionary oblivion. Scientists are reporting that the insect's long, flexible legs hav

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Hubble Instruments Slated for On-Orbit 'Surgery'

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2008 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence – performing on-orbit 'surgery' on two ailing scienc

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Blocking HIV Multiplication: Structure Elucidation Of 'Kissing Complex'

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

Scientists have used innovative techniques to elucidate the specific recognition mechanisms between AIDS virus RNA and a synthetic RNA. These results should provide a basis for the development of new

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Medicinal Marijuana Effective For Neuropathic Pain In HIV, Study Finds

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

In a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to assess the impact of smoked medical cannabis, or marijuana, on the neuropathic pain associated with HIV, researchers have found that reported pa

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Drivers Of Tropical Deforestation Are Changing, Say Scientists

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

A shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation threatens the world's tropical forests but offers new opportunities for conservation, according to a new article.

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Treatment Outcomes Highlight Dangers Of Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

In a retrospective study of 174 tuberculosis patients, patients with extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis were almost eight times as likely to die as patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis

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New Decision Model Seeks To Avert Flu Vaccine Mismatch Of 2007-2008 Season

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

To avoid producing vaccines that treat the wrong strains during flu season, the FDA should consider deferring some of its selections as well as other changes to the vaccine composition, according to a

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Jeers Of Peers May Affect Adolescent Adjustment

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

A researcher suggests that the struggles of adolescence can be particularly painful for children who also struggle with obesity.

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Is There Life On Jupiter's Moon Europa? Finding Signs Of Current Geological Activity On A Frozen World

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing the entire surface, the environment on Jupiter's

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How Chemo Kills Tumors: Research To Reduce Side Effects

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

Researchers are investigating exactly how chemotherapy drugs kill cancerous tumors in a bid to reduce side effects and test the effectiveness of safer new agents.

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Whom Do We Fear Or Trust?

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

Princeton psychology researchers have developed a computer program that allows scientists to analyze better than ever before what it is about certain human faces that makes them look either trustworth

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HIV Expert Says 1 Step Down, 2 More To Go In Quest To Cure AIDS

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

A Johns Hopkins expert in HIV and how the AIDS virus hides in the body says antiretroviral drugs have stopped HIV from replicating, the first of three key steps needed to rid people of the virus.

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Acid Rain Reduces Methane Emissions From Rice Paddies

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

Acid rain from atmospheric pollution can reduce methane emissions from rice paddies by up to 24 per cent according to new research. This is potentially a beneficial side effect of the high pollution l

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Fossil And Molecular Evidence Reveals The History Of Major Marine Biodiversity Hotspots

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

Experts have described three major marine biodiversity hotspots in the last 50 million years, from the oldest, peaked in southwest Europe and northwest Africa, to the modern Indo-Australian Archipelag

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Solar System Is Pretty Special, According To New Computer Simulation

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

Prevailing theoretical models attempting to explain the formation of the solar system have assumed it to be average. Now a new study by Northwestern University astronomers -- the first to model the fo

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New Implant Device Remotely Monitors Heart Failure Patients

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

Chest pain and shortness of breath are common symptoms that send tens of thousands of heart failure (HF) patients into US hospitals each month. Cardiologists may now be able to curb such visits for so

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Hot Peppers Really Do Bring The Heat

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

Researchers have found that capsaicin, the active chemical in chili peppers, can induce thermogenesis, the process by which cells convert energy into heat.

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Hormone Level May Reflect Mortality Risk Among Dialysis Patients

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

A new study suggests that monitoring levels of a hormone called fibroblast growth factor 23 may provide information crucial to the treatment of patients with kidney failure.

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Fuel From Bacteria Is One Step Closer

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

Scientists have shown how bacteria could be used as a future fuel. The research, published in the journal Bioinformatics, could have significant implications for the environment and the way we produce

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No-nose Bicycle Saddles Improve Penile Sensation And Erectile Function In Bicycling Police Officers

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:58 P GMT-06

A new study examines if no-nose bike seats would be effective in alleviating the harm caused by using a traditional seat.

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Relgion and Spirituality News Feeds

Evangelicals Up For Grabs? Candidates Court Voters

Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:25 P GMT-06

In the competition for white evangelical votes, this year there's been a role reversal: It's the Democrat who is comfortable quoting Scripture and talking openly about his beliefs.

NPR Topics: Religion

Anthrax Suspect's Abortion Stance Eyed As Motive

Thursday, 7 August 2008 6:57 P GMT-06

Bruce Ivins may have targeted Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy with anthrax-laced letters in 2001 because he saw them as bad Catholics owing to their pro-choice votes, officials close to the invest

NPR Topics: Religion

Camp Offers Training Ground For Little Skeptics

Thursday, 7 August 2008 3:59 P GMT-06

Camp Inquiry in upstate New York seems at first like an ordinary summer camp, with familiar activities like hiking and swimming. But its thrust is to teach children to think skeptically about everythi

NPR Topics: Religion

Community, Choice And Faith

Thursday, 7 August 2008 4:01 A GMT-06

Our mobile society means Americans find themselves with fewer social ties and close confidantes, less help raising children and shallower roots. That decline of community is a challenge to traditional

NPR Topics: Religion

Planning A Purpose-Driven Talk With McCain, Obama

Monday, 4 August 2008 8:00 A GMT-06

John McCain and Barack Obama will make their first joint appearance of the post-primary season on Aug. 16 at a forum moderated by Rick Warren, the megachurch pastor and best-selling author. Warren tal

NPR Topics: Religion

Turkey's Ruling Party Survives High Court Vote

Thursday, 31 July 2008 1:59 P GMT-06

The highest court in Turkey narrowly voted against disbanding the ruling party Wednesday. The party had been accused of trying to impose Islamic law. Turkey's population is overwhelmingly Muslim, but

NPR Topics: Religion

Strategies Differ At Two Islamic Schools In England

Tuesday, 29 July 2008 1:59 P GMT-06

The British government is funding a number of Islamic schools, where children are segregated by gender and receive Islamic teaching. Proponents say it's an excellent way to expand education in the Mus

NPR Topics: Religion

Evangelicals Eye Presidential Race

Monday, 28 July 2008 8:28 P GMT-06

Both John McCain and Barack Obama are courting evangelical voters. Mike Rose, senior pastor at the First Federated Church in Des Moines, Iowa, calls McCain a "difficult choice," and says he doubts Oba

NPR Topics: Religion

Anglicans Boycott Meeting, Split Over Women, Gays

Wednesday, 23 July 2008 3:46 P GMT-06

Leaders of the world's Anglicans are meeting in London amid speculation that the church might split. Conservatives argue that there is no place for practicing homosexuals in the church.

NPR Topics: Religion

Polygamist Jeffs Indicted On Child Assault Charges

Wednesday, 23 July 2008 11:50 A GMT-06

A grand jury in El Dorado, Texas, has indicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and a group of his followers on charges related to sexual assault of a child. They're members of the Fundamentalist Church

NPR Topics: Religion