I'd like to read Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here goes BookTalk expanding my horizons again: I've never looked at the amazon best seller list before today. One of the reader/reviewers mentions a very positive review in "The New Yorker" by John Updike, which...

I'd like to read Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here goes BookTalk expanding my horizons again: I've never looked at the amazon best seller list before today. One of the reader/reviewers mentions a very positive review in "The New Yorker" by John Updike, which...

The sequencing of the Chimp genome has overturned the 2% difference between chimps and humans. It turns out to be over 5%, because there are gross differences... large sections that are in different order, different number of repeats, etc... that were not apparent to the tools that just compared gen...

> Oh it's not a huge big deal, it's just what I said in my post, that it's negative rather than positive. A definition by what one is not. As far as use in every day life, well, we'll see. I belonged to both the Brights meetup and the Atheist meetup in Saint Louis, the Brights survived and the Athei...

Timothy SchoonoverQuote:I hate the term 'bright.' Not only is it a label, thanks to Dawkins,I'm leaning toward adopting it, thanks to Dawkins. Not sure where YOUR "thanks to Dawkins" comes from, though, since he had nothing to do with coining the term. He's one of a number of major thinker...

From The Brights network RICHARD DAWKINS (ENTHUSIASTIC BRIGHT) ON SCIENCE AND EVOLUTIONIn the radio piece on evolution (aired 9/23), Dr. Dawkins responds to questions of an interviewer about his latest book, The Ancestor's Tale, and he relates why he chose to convey the story of evolution by way of ...

Niall001Quote:God defiles [sic] reason: Parapraxis?

Keith and CompanyQuote:The purpose of the public school system should be that a graduate is capable of entering the work force with the minimum necessary skills to support their learning of the specific skills and information required for their job.The original justification for the suspension of in...

ADO15: "See, there's part of the problem. All the problems faced by the USA (and, by extension, the rest of us) stem from ignorance of three basic areas. . . "Whew, glad American students have picked up Math and Science so well since I last looked.

Quote:1. What do you value above all else and why?My son's life. My feelings are consistent with my thoughts on this: I understand "Life" with a capital L as being about the genes. So I am intellectually comfortable with what my instincts tell meQuote:2. Do you value truth? Why?That which ...