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Quote for the Day
Responding to a question of whether the capitalist system needs more ethical guidance, or complete restructuring: Many times various heads of state and political leaders that I had the power to meet after my election as Bishop of Rome have spoken with me of this. They said: You religious leaders must help us; give us…
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Quote For The Day
Originally posted on The Dish: “Do I really want it, this self, these scattered fingerprints on the air, to persist forever, to outlast the atomic universe? Those who scoff at the Christian hope of an afterlife have on their side not only a mass of biological evidence knitting the self-conscious mind tight to the perishing…
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Quote For The Day
Originally posted on The Dish: “The suggestion that any feature of this ruthless business is designed to afford “protection” to the pigs, much less to the babies, is perverse. Normal, healthy mother pigs, for example, do not after birth fall over and crush their young — as if they were all just naturally clumsy. These…
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The Perfect Response to Conservative Advocate of More Guns in NY Times Op-Ed
Stacy Manhattan 6 hours ago Only when you have betrayed civil society and the ideals of equality before the law, neighborliness, civic tolerance and reasoned discourse, does the notion of arming everyone look like “progress.” The American Right in 2014 cannot see past its own dark fantasies of perpetual threat and dim fears of chaos…
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Memories Passed Down in DNA
New research from Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, has shown that it is possible for some information to be inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in DNA. During the tests they learned that that mice can pass on learned information about traumatic or stressful experiences – in this case a fear of the smell of…
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