how are some more certain of everything than i am of anything?….

http://www.kouya.net/?p=4534

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-02-18-13-20-04

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/18/1861-the-civil-war-awakening.html

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_best_most_revealing_reporting_on_the_foreclosure_crisis_20120218/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2012/02/creationists-mythicists-and-the-schroedingers-scholar-fallacy.html

https://www.facebook.com/NPR/posts/314416061940179 read comments

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/02/single-human-genome-reveals-entire-span-of-species-from-near-extinction-to-exploration-of-outer-spac.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/bu-tst021012.php

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Simple-Dollar/2012/0218/The-many-fiscal-wonders-of-cruise-control

https://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/technology/2012/feb/19/war-cyber-worm-attack-internet

https://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/p/35hmg

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/14/this-will-make-you-smarter-brockman-edge-question/

http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2011/10/self-deception-sex-women#

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i am not particularly interested in the abortion debate, i am however fascinated by history. while reading http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/18/the-biblical-view-thats-younger-than-the-happy-meal/ i see that YEC with it’s mantra of “no death before the fall” is like “life begins at conception”, a recent innovation that has so sweep the conservative church that many seem to thing it was always this way. my favorite book on the topic is “darwin’s forgotten defenders”http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Forgotten-Defenders-Evangelical-Evolutionary/dp/1573830933

the curious thing is not just how such ideas dominate groups but how they destroy the very memory that things used to be otherwise.

after all “We have always been at war with Eastasia. Everyone knows that.”

i found this http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_forgettingpill/all/1#
now everyone can take a pill and we really have been at war with eastasia, forever. then change the text stored on our kindles and poof, history really can be rewritten.

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http://www.eturbonews.com/27735/tourist-snaps-stunning-pictures-unrecorded-indian-tribe

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2012/02/tracie_mcmillan_s_the_american_way_of_eating_a_brief_history_of_applebee_s.single.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/19/why-i-ve-learned-many-languages-by-aravind-adiga.html