Category Archive for ‘Snippets’

By:  Robert D Brinsmead I am committed to capitalism or the free enterprise way of life. Its results speak for its benefits, no doubt about that. The reason why I… read more →

Jonathan Hodgson Large parts of the world are becoming vastly more secular.  Do we know how to replace the benefits offered by religion. Here is a three minute video that… read more →

from Essays: First Series (1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night. Mountain tall and ocean deep Trembling balance duly keep.… read more →

by Samuel Arbesman Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master. Have we finally reached our limits? Despite the vastness of the sky, airplanes occasionally crash into each… read more →

  TALKING POINT THE AUSTRALIAN OCTOBER 01, 2014 12:00AM BIBLICAL scholar James Barr, more than 30 years ago, said the great issue of our age was fundamentalism. Before the Enlightenment… read more →

Australia Day Quote: “Twenty-three million of us have found unity in our diversity; respect in our differences and have built a modern nation.” We would probably all agree that this… read more →

OPINION Updated May 8, 2013  By HARRISON H. SCHMITT AND WILLIAM HAPPER Of all of the world’s chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonization of… read more →

This little piece made me stop and think, so I thought I’d let others read it to see if it does the same for them.   By:  James Altucher (http://www.jamesaltucher.com) The… read more →

By:  J Brean – National Post Neuroscience’s funding and influence grows, and so do doubts over its hype U.S. President Barack Obama’s much-hyped BRAIN initiative to crack the mysteries of consciousness… read more →

By:  Robert D. Brinsmead On Wednesday last week I looked at a factory producing a new pre-fab housing solution that was almost out of this world when it comes to… read more →

Steve Jobs’ death yesterday unloosed a torrent of well-deserved encomia to the man and his genius. Jobs’ abundant talents as an engineer, designer, and capitalist are beyond dispute. But did… read more →

Written By: NATALIYA VASILYEVA MOSCOW (AP) – In czarist times, Geda Zimanenko watched her mother offer the local police officer a shot of vodka on a plate and five rubles… read more →

Book Review by Laura Spinney How to Create a Mind – The Secret of Human Thought Revealed By:  Ray Kurzweil   Reverse-engineering the brain may be the way to unravel its… read more →

Where was all the chaos, looting, and mass-panic during Hurricane Sandy? Written By: Katy Waldman On Thursday, three days after Hurricane Sandy swept across the Eastern Seaboard, darkening power grids, flooding… read more →

Here is an amazing story from a flight attendant on Delta Flight 15, written following 9-11…. “On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, we were about 5 hours out of… read more →

Written By:  GILLIAN FLACCUS CORONA, Calif. (AP) – The room rings out with the cruel nicknames that have haunted the teenagers for years: Crusty crab. Burnt toast. Snake skin. Freddy… read more →

Terence Corcoran Jun 11, 2012 – 9:37 PM ET New book recounts mass ­official craziness in policymaking Right in the opening chapter of Harvey Levenstein’s entertaining and eye-opening book, Fear of Food:… read more →

Eric Klinenberg, National Post · May 23, 2012  In the beginning of the Old Testament, God creates the world one day at a time: The heavens and the Earth. Water. Light. Day… read more →

Here is a site that supports the Global Warming arguments in a simple schedule form. Comment by Bob Brinsmead I am actually in the middle of writing a book on… read more →

Don Butler, Postmedia News · May 7, 2012 | Last Updated: May 7, 2012 3:01 AM ET OTTAWA – A team of University of Ottawa researchers has solved the mystery of how… read more →