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idden to imagine a future state of humanity in which the active majority would consist of semi-female workers and Amazons toiling for an inactive minority of selected Mothers. Even in his chapter, "Human Population in the Future," Mr. Spencer has attempted no detailed statement of the physical modifications inevitable ...
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Jean Luc Melenchon, French leftist party chief, beams as protesters rally against the austerity measures announced by the French government, viewed as a broken campaign promise by President Francois Hollande. ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Tens of thousands of supporters of leftist parties marched through Paris on Sunday to ...
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David Toshio Tsumura, The First Book of Samuel, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. 720pp. $50.00, Hardcover. Japan Bible Seminary’s David Toshio Tsumura has given us a fine new commentary on 1 Samuel. He lucidly overviews the history of the modern discussion of the text...
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90% of Consumers Say Online Reviews Impact Buying Decisions … And Other Hot Topics Over the last few years, many small business owners have developed a love-hate relationship with online reviews. On one hand, when you consider the popularity of sites like Yelp, TripAdvisor, or Foursquare—online reviews are a great way ...
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Nearly half of all atrial fibrillation (AF) patients at the highest risk for stroke are not being prescribed blood thinners by their cardiologists, according to a new study by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and University of California, San Francisco. The study was published onlin...
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Few dealers will admit it, but it can be dangerous to decline wholesale allocations presented by the manufacturer. Vehicle inventories have been high, and the natural dealer reaction is to restrict wholesale buying until stock levels come down. This situation becomes a double-edged sword for dealers. We are heading int...
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Dividend Investors Running With the bulls Read Article The stock market index S&P 500 has risen by 37.8% from its lows in early march. The S&P 500 is also almost 1.80% higher since the beginning of 2009. Investors are now being bombarded with conflicting advice from both from the bullish and the bearish camp. The bears...
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Implementing health promotion in schools: protocol for a realist systematic review of research and experience in the United Kingdom (UK) 1:48 DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-1-48 © Pearson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012 Received: 1 August 2012 Accepted: 5 October 2012 Published: 20 October 2012 Abstract Background Sc...
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.[11] systematic reviews. We recognize that the extent to which a focus on the implementation (including feasibility and sustainability) of public health programmes can be a separate focus of systematic reviews is a current area of methodological debate and development [12]. In addition to the specific focus of program...
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to locate a range of programme theories to test, it is not appropriate to foreclose potentially important perspectives by pre-specifying exclusion criteria. Study inclusion criteria (Phase 2) Population Inclusion criteria Children aged 5 to 16 years attending primary or secondary schools in the UK (both state schools ...
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implementation in one source enables insights into evidence about outcomes in another source reconciling of sources of evidence, when results differ in apparently similar circumstances, further investigation is appropriate in order to find explanations for why these different results occurred adjudication of sources o...
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on changing dietary intake and physical activity levels to prevent childhood obesity: An update to the obesity guidance produced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Obes Rev. 2009, 10: 110-141. 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2008.00515.x.View ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar Lister-Sharp D, Chapman S, Stewar...
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Q: Many people are called “Mr. Black,” “Ms. White,” “Mr. Gray,” or “Ms. Brown,” but almost no one is “Mr. Red” or “Mr. Yellow,” “Ms. Pink,” “Ms. Purple,” or “Ms. Blue.” Why are so many beautiful colors unpopular as family names? A: To keep things simple, we’ll discuss only names of British origin, though much of this w...
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‘UK should define national security’ RT: Why this urgent need for Russian-speaking agents in British intelligence? Annie Machon: Well it is interesting timing, I think, because for the last 5 or 6 years British intelligence has said that one of the biggest threats is Russian espionage in London. But now I think we're l...
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Rising gasoline and oil prices this summer have resurrected America’s perennial obsession with energy independence, the alleged remedy for OPEC production cutbacks. Vice President Al Gore promised awhile back that, with only a few billion dollars more in subsidies, renewable-energy and energy-efficiency investments wou...
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. . Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 20, 2007 A new NASA study estimates that most ground-level particulate pollution in the United States stems from regional sources in North America and only a small amount is brought to the country from other parts of the world. Researchers using an innovative global aerosol tracking model hav...
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The Kyoto School First published Mon Feb 27, 2006; substantive revision Tue Nov 11, 2014 The Kyoto School ( Kyōto-gakuha) is a group of 20 th century Japanesethinkers who developed original philosophies by creativelydrawing on the intellectual and spiritual traditions of East Asia,those of Mahāyāna Buddhism in particul...
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sofar asthey can be identified as East Asian or Mahāyāna Buddhistthinkers, this must be understood in the sense of having criticallyand creatively developed these traditions in philosophicaldialogue with Western thought. It should be kept in mind that theirprimary commitment is not to a cultural self-expression, or eve...
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students. Moreover, unlike Plato's Academy or the Frankfurt School's Institute for Social Research, the Kyoto School thinkers never founded an academic institution or formed an official organization. Their association was initially based merely on the fact that they studied and taught at Kyoto University and developed...
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the increasingly international study of the Kyoto School, their thought is finally becoming what it always intended to be, namely, “Japanese philosophy in the world” (see Heisig 2004; Fujita/Davis 2005; Davis/Schroeder/Wirth 2011). At the start of the twenty-first century, two important volumesappeared in Japan with t...
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�hashi explicitly excluded Mikifrom the School on account of his principally Marxists orientations(Ōhashi 1990, 12). (We might note here in passing that, in hismajor later period work, The Logic of Imagination, Miki doesaffirm the Nishida inspired idea that “nothingness is whattranscends the subjective and the objectiv...
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three figures that form the core of what has become known as the Kyoto School, and in this article I will accordingly focus my attention primarily on them, if also at times on Ueda Shizuteru as the current leading figure of the School. It should nevertheless be kept in mind that these are only three or four of a much ...
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scholars and students in areas of Japan outside of Kyoto. Worth special mention in this regard is Kosaka Kunitsugu, whose lucid and prolific scholarship on Nishida and others has done a great deal for the sympathetic yet sober textual analysis of the Kyoto School. The creation of the Nishida Philosophy Association in ...
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Aristotle, the essence of being was “substance,” ambiguously thought either as the particular (Socrates) or the concrete universal form (human being), and the highest being was the “unmoved mover.” Greek ontology later influenced the Christian theological tradition to think of God as the “highest being,” such that the...
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God Himself, a breakthrough, that is,to an abyssal Godhead understood as “the silent desert into whichno distinction ever gazed, of Father, Son, or Holy Ghost” (Eckehart1963, 316). Analogously, Nishida writes that “when we truly enterthoroughly into the consciousness of absolute nothingness, there isneither I nor God”...
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, he goes on to say, “thatwhich has form and determination was regarded as the real”; oreven, as in Plato, reality, that which has true being, was understoodas the Forms. Judeo-Christian culture, however radically different invarious ways it was from Greek culture, and despite negativetheology's indications of a Deus a...
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a“great negation” of a reified misunderstanding ofbeing—to a “great affirmation” of a non-reifiedunderstanding of being. Emptiness thoroughly understood is nothingseparate from or opposed to “being” properlyunderstood. As the often chanted lines of the Heart Sutra putit: “[phenomenal] form is emptiness; emptiness is a...
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ist tradition we also find an idea of nothingness used inthe context of radically emptying the mind in order to attune thefinite self to the in-finite [9] rhythm of the Way. The Zhuangzispeaks in this regard of the practice of “sitting down andforgetting everything” and of “being empty like amirror” (see Watson 1968, 9...
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and at the same timenothingness; it is being-and-nothingness [ u-soku-mu],nothingness-and-being; it is both subjective and objective, noetic andnoematic. Reality is the unity of subjectivity and objectivity, andthus the self-identity of what is absolutely contradictory. Or rather,it is not that [the separate spheres o...
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yet, Nishida repeatedly tells usthat, as no-thing outside of or other than the place of the coming tobe and passing away of truly individual beings, absolute nothingness is not to be thought of as a “transcendent being.”Nor is it to be understood as the processional unfolding of a“potential being,” that is to say, as ...
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endenttheism. It may perhaps best be called “panentheism”; butfor Nishida this too remains a static term of “objectivelogic” and fails to capture the necessity of thinking God as both irreducibly transcendent and thoroughly immanent. AsNishida is fond of saying, God or the Buddha is “immanentlytranscendent.” It is the ...
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“philosophy.” The problems faced and the possibilities opened up by a Zen Buddhist “philosophy of religion” in particular differ in significant ways from a Judeo-Christian one, insofar as the former calls for extending rational thought in the direction of a “practice of awakening,” rather than in the direction of a le...
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is reborn only by way of absolute nothingness as what he calls, inthe parlance of Shinran's Shin Buddhism, the workings ofOther-power ( tariki). As Nishitani and others have pointed out (see NKC IX, 212ff.; Nishitani 1991, 161ff.), Tanabe's criticisms often fail to do justice to Nishida's thought, and we should not fo...
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In an age of secular egoism and nihilism, how could an experience of the place of absolute nothingness take place? To begin with, Nishitani says we must heed the call of Nietzsche's madman and cease fleeing from the experience of nihilism. God as the highest being is dead, and it remains an open question whether he ca...
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egation where it dies to itself and stands as a “non-ego” or “hollow-being” in the “hollow-expanse” which envelopes the horizonal life-world. The true self, as a self that becomes itself by passing through the absolute negation of its ego, is a two-layered being-in-and-beyond-the-world; it stands in the horizon of the ...
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ego. Nishitanidid recognized certain advances in the direction of a truly“radical subjectivity” in modern ideas such as that ofindividual “autonomy.” For example, the Kantian idea of theethical “person,” which opens itself to a universalstandpoint by way of a negation of the self-will of the ego, suggestedfor Nishitan...
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? Barring straightforward complicity, there appear to be threechoices: withdraw into reclusion, stand up in overt resistance, or negotiate a reorientation by means of immanent critique or cooperative correction. Whilemany intellectuals in wartime Japan took the first course, somecourageous Leftists braved the second co...
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a sociologist serving as a go-between. Nishida was even then disappointed that his attempt to “bring out the dimension of universality present in the Japanese spirit” seemed to have had no effect on Prime Minister Tōjō Hideki and his bellicose regime (see Yusa 1994, 124). From today's vantage point, Nishida's politica...
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Arisaka1999, 242). Arisaka critically adds, however, that “the idea thata particular nation may be the bearer of a universal principle, such asfreedom or democracy, and that, therefore, its actions in history servea higher end, should be familiar from recent American experience”(ibid., 244; also see Maraldo 1994, 355)....
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cality, which means tomodernize and then postmodernize; only in this way can they continueto play a vital role in Japanese society as well as offer thepossibilities of their ways of life to the wider world (Nishitani2006, 36–38). In the Chūōkōron discussions as well theKyoto School resolutely attempted to think from th...
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sentiment in a more prudent direction. In short, the “Ōshima Memos” help reveal how the Kyoto School found themselves in a position where they were called on to fight a “war of thought” on two fronts: against Western imperialism, they felt called on to determine a world-historical role for Japan in freeing itself and ...
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a philosopher of religion in the postwar era. He continued to philosophically develop Eastern ideas, those of Zen Buddhism in particular, in dialogue with medieval Christian mysticism and postmodern existentialism and phenomenology, and in response to what he saw as the central problem of modernity, namely, nihilism. ...
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as such, even though hundreds of studies had treated“Nishida Philosophy.” Yet there are promising signs thatwe are standing on the brink of a new academic era in which criticalyet appreciative work on the Kyoto School can be cooperativelyundertaken in Japan, in the West, and recently even in other parts ofEast Asia (s...
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ological question of being, his answer is a meontology of absolute nothingness. And even if his systematic philosophical articulations of the idea of absolute nothingness owe more to Western than Eastern texts, he nevertheless understands himself to have autonomously (i.e., in the process of engaging in a nonsectarian ...
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coherences and mutual differences. With regard to the hermeneutics of modern cross-cultural thinking, in general I believe that the attempt to obliterate the borders that separate cultural spheres is as pernicious as the attempt to hermetically seal them up. Of course, this goes for intra- as well as inter-traditional...
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ethe, an “ur-culture” of multiplepossibilities), the development of its branches and leaves is a matterof diversification, not homogenization. Globalization should thus bethought of, in Nishida's vision, as many branches of the sametree supplementing one other on the basis of both their deep-rootedcommonality and their...
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eda gives us a clue as to how we might best understand the cross-cultural contributions of the Kyoto School. They are philosophers who strive to express something universal from a particular standpoint. But this does not at all mean that they attempt to reduce universality to their own particularity; for the latter is ...
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0–226. –––, 1996, Beyond Orientalism, Albany: SUNY Press. Davis, Bret W., 2002, “Introducing the Kyoto School as WorldPhilosophy: Reflections on James. W. Heisig's Philosophers of Nothingness,” The Eastern Buddhist34/2: 142–170. –––, 2004a, “The Step Backthrough Nihilism: The Radical Orientation of Nishitani Keiji'sPhi...
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erts, Freiburg/Munich: Alber Verlag. Faure, Bernard, 1995, “The Kyoto School and ReverseOrientalism,” in Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives, Charles Wei-Hsun Fu and Steven Heine (eds.), New York: SUNY Press, pp. 245–281. Feenberg, Andrew, 1995, “The Problem of Modernity inNishida's Philosophy,” in Alterna...
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ulis and John C. Maraldo (eds.),2011, Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, Honolulu: Hawaii University Press. Heisig, James W. and John C. Maraldo (eds.), 1994, Rude Awakenings: Zen, The Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Heisig, James W. and Uehara Mayuko (eds.), 2008, F...
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togakuha no yurai to yukue” [The Whence and Whither of the Kyoto School from a Western Perspective], Azumi Yurika (trans.), in Fujita/Davis 2005, pp. 31–56. –––, 2006, “The War Over the KyotoSchool,” Monumenta Nipponica61/3 (Autumn 2006): 375–401. –––, 2013, “Japanese Philosophy as a Lenson Greco-European Thought,” Jou...
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iron: Kyōtogakuha no rekishigaku ronkō[Theory of World History: The Kyoto School's Writings on History], Mori Tetsurō (ed.), Kyoto: Tōeisha, pp. 274–304. Panikkar, K. M., 1969, Asia and Western Dominance, Collier Books. Parkes, Graham, 1884, “Nietzsche and Nishitani on the Selfthrough Time,” The Eastern Buddhist17/2: 5...
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765–784. –––, 2011c, Wer und was bin ich: Zur Phänomenologie des Selbst im Zen-Buddhismus, Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber. Ueda, Yoshifumi, 1990, “Tanabe's Metanoetics and Shinran'sThought,” in The Religious Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime, Taitetsu Unno and James W. Heisig (eds.), Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, pp. 134–14...
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Heine (ed.), Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Includes Abe's articles on Nishida.) Hanaoka, Eiko, 2009, Zen and Christianity: From the Standpoint of Absolute Nothingness, Kyoto: Maruzen. Hisamatsu, Shin'ichi, 1960, “The Characteristics of OrientalNothingness,” Richard DeMartino (trans.), Philosophical Studies of...
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1–26. –––, 1986, Was is Religion?, Dora Fischer-Barnicol (trans.), Frankfurt: Insel Verlag. –––, 1990, The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism, Graham Parkes with Setsuko Aihara (trans.), Albany: SUNY. –––, 1991, Nishida Kitarō, Yamamoto Seisaku and James W. Heisig (trans.), Berkeley: University of California Press. –––, 1999,...
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Ueda's interpretation of the practice of Zen.) –––, 1994b, “Nishida, Nationalism, and the War in Question,” in Heisig/Maraldo 1994, pp. 77–106. (Ueda's influential response to the controversy surrounding Nishida's political writings.) –––, 1995, “Nishida's Thought,” JanVan Bragt (trans.), The Eastern Buddhist28/1: 29–...
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: Toward a Comparative Political Theory, Fred Dallmayr (ed.), New York: Lexington Books, pp. 237–252. (An insightful critical treatment of the ambiguities in Nishida's cultural and political philosophy.) Berque, Augustin (ed.), 2000, Logique du lieu et dépassemente de la modernité, two volumes, Bruxelles: Ousia. Bouso,...
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errida, and Marion.) Denker, Alfred et al. (eds.), 2013, Heidegger-Jahrbuch 7: Heidegger und das ostasiatische Denken, Freiburg/Munich: Alber Verlag. (Contains a number of essays by and on thinkers affiliated with the Kyoto School.) Döll, Steffen, 2005, Wozu also suchen? Zur Einführung in das Denken von Ueda Shizuteru,...
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, 1999, Die Aktualität der Philosophie. Grundriss des Denkwegs der Kyoto-Schule, Wien: Doppelpunkt. Heisig, James W., 1998, “Kyoto School,” in E. Craig(ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge. –––, 1999, “Philosophy as Spirituality:The Way of the Kyoto School,” in Buddhist Spirituality: Later Chin...
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Three Ways of Reading Nishida'sNon-Dualism,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies31/1: 73–103. (A good account of how Nishida's dialogue with his critics, Takahashi Satomi and Tanabe Hajime, assisted him in the pursuit of a philosophy of non-dualism that does not reduce difference to identity.) Kosaka, Kunitsugu, 199...
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etsu[An Investigation into Immediate Knowledge: Nishida, Nishitani, Heidegger, D. T. Suzuki], Yokohama: Shunpū-sha. Mayeda, Graham, 2006, Time, Space, and Ethics in the Philosophies of Watsuji Tetsurō, Kuki Shūzō, and Martin Heidegger, London/New York: Routledge. McCarthy, Erin, 2010, Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfho...
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cultural nationalism in Kuki's aesthetics.) Piovesana, Gino K., 1994, Recent Japanese Philosophical Thought, 1862–1996: A Survey, revised edition including a new survey by Naoshi Yamawaki: “The Philosophical Thought of Japan from 1963 to 1996,” Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library (Curzon Press Ltd). (A classic survey of m...
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5, The Logic of Nothingness: A Study of Nishida Kitarō, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (A landmark philosophical study which traces the early development of Nishida's thought from out of the context of Japanese philosophy in the Meiji period, and which focuses in particular on the subsequent development of his u...
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By Mark Dummett BBC News, Janakpur, Nepal Many roads and bridges have been washed away by the floods The road heading south to India has been washed away. Soldiers now ferry families wanting to reach the border over a river which was not here last week. Men hold bicycles above their heads as they wade through water whi...
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Less Wrong is a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality. Please visit our About page for more information. We genuinely want to do good in the world; but also, we want to feel as if we're doing good, via heuristics that have been hammered into our brains over the course of our social evolution. ...
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So in my last post I looked at what I saw that made up a MOOC, the content, the assessment, discussion, assignment and a bit about the platform and my experience on a MOOC. This post is going to explore (or ramble) about MOOCs a bit more, and on what the benefits and challenges that an institution may face in consideri...
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to use data that is meaningful. So there will be a number of challenges there just as it brings opportunities. Like many others I guess, I signed up to two MOOC. I completed one and just browsed the other one out of interest as I would a book in a library or shop. Another option for monetising the data will be when co...
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For your reason urges you to it, and yet you find it impossible. Endeavour, therefore, to gain conviction – Blaise Pascal In Analysis 9 I suggested that one way to face global warming (GW) is in the spirit of Pascal’s Wager. But what course of action does wagering on GW (if that's what we wager on) prescribe? Where’s t...
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is at issue. Can it be that we are asked unquestioningly to believe that there are poor people simply because there are rich people? That the rich are rich just because they have deprived the poor? Is this not a little too simplistic? Romanticising Another current approach is romanticism. This is the idea that we shou...
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our human nature must be personal responses. We must start from where we are. That seems to be the approach of the New Testament. Walk the walk rather than talk the talk. (Or perhaps walk and talk.) And, remembering the mote and the beam, we must start with ourselves, not with pointing a finger at someone else. Second...
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Reuters Health Information (2005-07-29): Bilirubin response to steroids predicts alcoholic hepatitis outcome Clinical Bilirubin response to steroids predicts alcoholic hepatitis outcome Last Updated: 2005-07-29 15:16:00 -0400 (Reuters Health) NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A drop in bilirubin levels after just a few days ...
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Our Michigan nursing home negligence lawyers often pursue cases on behalf of residents who suffer serious injuries from falls out bed. These injuries can be prevented with proper safety precautions and patient care plans. Falls out of nursing home beds often lead to serious injuries, like fractured hips, and even death...
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Kitten season is here, and Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest no-kill shelter, is inundated with the furry little felines. It's an around-the-clock operation with nearly 200 kittens that require bottle-feeding every few hours. There's no denying the kittens are adorable — especially when they're wrapped ...
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Columns By Jack Bragen Friday March 08, 2013 - 11:04:00 AM Doctor Drew Pinsky is a television psychiatrist who frequently appears on CNN. His coverage and that of CNN are groundbreaking in their treatment of persons with mental illness and the venomous effects of stigma. Drew believes stigma is a cause of death for man...
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As most women will testify, a handbag is one of life's absolute essentials, and a must-have accessory that a girl simply can't live without. And while a bag that gets carted around every day may seem like an everyday item, it can also come with a hefty price tag – and especially if it's an expensive designer brand. On ...
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Posts Tagged: publishing industry The Fire This Time, what she loves about motherhood, and why it’s time for White America to get uncomfortable. ...more The Accidental Lifeand his career in the magazine business, which spans the beginning of New Journalism through the digital revolution. ...more The Kite and the String...
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