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In a review of Daniel Dennett’s new Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Adam Kirsch argues that an explanation for why people believe is not an argument against belief:
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How would a realist interpretation of the Mermin-Peres square with counterfactual definiteness and the existence of states prior to measurements look like?
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It's possible to save realism.
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From the Schrödinger equation of a system I'm investigating, where the wave function is a 4-component spinor of coefficients $C_1, C_2, C_3, C_4$, I am able to obtain the expression
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What evidence or studies suggest or confirm the idea that human multitasking, i.e. people attempting to perform several tasks at once, is harmful to productivity? Is there any evidence to the contrary?
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Actor Ossie Davis reads "Simple on Indian Blood," one of the "Simple" stories of Langston Hughes. Famous today for his poetry, Hughes also wrote protest columns. Jesse B. Semple, Hughes's quintessential Harlem resident, first appeared in the Chicago Defender newspaper. Semple'... |
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NAFTA isn't NATO, at least not yet. However, the North American defense ministers conference hosted by Canada the last week of March sent the low-key but categorically public message that Mexico has emerged as the U.S. and Canada's regional security partner.
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“The ocean is black, not blue. It is very dangerous, sister. Never let anyone you know cross that ocean the way that I did.”
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States differ in the extent to which their residents are food secure—meaning that they have consistent access to enough food for active, healthy living. The prevalence of food security in a State depends not only on the characteristics of ho... |
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, an eminent nonconformist, was born at Plymouth, in Devonshire, in 1636, and in 1650 entered of Exeter college, Oxford, where he became servitor in 1653, under the rectorship of Dr. Conant. After taking his first degreein arts in 1657, he returned to his native county, and was ordained according to the fo... |
ARPES Provides Direct Evidence of Spin-Wave Coupling Print
The electronic properties of a metal are determined by the dynamical behavior of its conduction electrons. Conventional band theory accounts for the interaction of the electrons with the static ion lattice. However, coupling to further microscopic degrees of ... |
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Increasingly abundant corn, growing global demand for beef and excess feedlot capacity ensure that cow-calf producers will see the highest calf prices in history over the next two to five years. Given such unprecedented calf prices, many cow-calf producers will have the luxury (or curse) of spending more on bulls. Bull... |
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Saul Steinberg grew up in Romania and became an American artist, but between 1933 and 1941 he lived in Milan, studying architecture, publishing drawings in humor newspapers, and trying to outrun the forces of anti-Semitism, which had sent him into exile in the first place. “My childhood, my adolescence in Romania were ... |
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In his elegy on the death of Yeats, W. H. Auden includes a puzzling couplet:
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Auden must have observed the tendency of those living in freedom to take their bounty for granted.
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July-December, 2010 International Religious Freedom Report - Mongolia
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