Tuesday, March 23, 2004

A Wife Learns to See With Alzheimer's Eyes. Joanne Koenig Coste found herself inventing her own methods of care for her husband with Alzheimer's, a system she now calls habilitation. By Claudia Dreifus. [New York Times: Health] 7:36:53 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Three-headed frog and liberal media bias. That three-headed frog discovered last week? Well, it wasn't It was three frogs who were , ahem--well, Ray Girvan links to a bunch of photos of other frogs engaged in similar antics. Gosh, there goes the liberal media, trying to bust up my family by talking dirty. OK, it's a blog--but you know what I mean. Fortunately, we have it on good authority that the Bush administration will once again take steps to make sure that science doesn't tell us anything we don't want to hear. Here, photoshopped for your viewing convenience, is the new explanation--it was a lovely frog wedding. The bride (in a veil of ethernetting) was just sharing a private moment with the groom (top hat 1), when up hopped the best man (top hat 2) and decided to try to cut in. Nothing to see here, folks, just move along. [Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?] 7:35:50 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Academics and blogging. James links to this discussion on why academics blog. Some excellent questions are posed...with great responses. A few quick responses from my own perspective: Why do you blog? To work through ideas...to create a history/record of my thoughts and their evolution. To find a pattern in the rapid flow of information. What keeps you going?Same reasons as why I started...With the added benefit of being involved in a community of people that I dialogue with indirectly (i.e. I speak to them through my blog, I listen to them through theirs. I've largely given up on blog comments as dialogue. Time for revised expectations...:)). What do you get from reading other blogs? Diversity of opinion...clash of ideas...synthesis...more complete perspective of issues...discovery of new trends before they become mainstream. [elearnspace] 7:34:56 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Oh, By All Means, Stick to US Courts Only, Microsoft. The EU Commission decision is being leaked right and left. The word is that it's going to be a fine of approximately $610-614 million. Here is the story in Spanish. It points out that this is a record fine. But here's the real sting: "As well as the fine, Microsoft is to be ordered to offer a version of its Windows operating system without Windows Media Player and to encourage computer makers to provide other audiovisual software. "It must also license information to make the servers of rivals more compatible with Windows desktop machines." This is historic. Unbundling. Microsoft told the Commission that they absolutely could not remove Media Player without breaking the operating system, and the Commission calmly said, in effect, "That's not true. Do it." (Real Networks' clever demo no doubt helped.) Naturally, Microsoft will appeal. [GrokLaw] 7:17:06 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Educated Americans Understand - World Without God Empty and Meaningless.. "Educated Americans," in fact, are less likely to be believers, especially if they are knowledgeable in the sciences. Belief in an all-powerful invisible man is highest among people who haven't finished high school (more than 90 percent in a Harris Poll), and lowest in National Academy of Sciences members (only 7 percent, reported in Nature). The Barna Research Group found "the more education a person gets the less likely they are to believe that heaven and hell exists." Fairy tales often are quite vulnerable to a quality education. Next faulty assertion: Religion might have resulted in the deaths of many people, but the leaders of godless communist regimes have killed many more. Undoubtedly, humans can be a nasty bunch. People tend to fight and kill for a number of reasons: greed, power, lust, jealously, etc. Human foibles are at the root of many horrors, however, organized religion is a preventable addition to the list. How many people have been killed in the name of atheism? Probably zero. Atheism is not a belief; it's a lack of belief. The word atheism is "a" (without) and "theism" (belief in a god). People don't kill in the name of a nonbelief. Communist regimes also lacked belief in the existence of leprechauns, unicorns and a number of other possibilities. Atrocities committed by such regimes were no more performed in the name of atheism than they were in the name of a-leprechaunism. Read the rest of this great article at The State News, John Bice is an Michigan State University staff member.[What Do YOU Think? Comment on this Post!] [Testify!] [Father Dan] 7:16:47 PM  comment []  Trackback []

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