EVIDENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF SNAKES Snakes belong to the suborder Serpentes in the order Squamata (the scaled reptiles). There has been a considerable controversy over their evolutionary origin. The two basic theories are 1)they…
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EVIDENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF SNAKES Snakes belong to the suborder Serpentes in the order Squamata (the scaled reptiles). There has been a considerable controversy over their evolutionary origin. The two basic theories are 1)they evolved from terrestrial burrowing reptiles and 2)that they evolved from aquatic reptiles and are closely
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EVIDENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF SNAKES Snakes belong to the suborder Serpentes in the order Squamata (the scaled reptiles). There has been a considerable controversy over their evolutionary origin. The two basic theories are 1)they evolved from terrestrial burrowing reptiles and 2)that they evolved from aquatic reptiles and are closely
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MEASURING GHOSTS A recent article in Science Translational Medicine asks the question “Can We Measure Autism ?” To my mind this begs the question, “is there really something called “autism” that we should be trying to measure ?”. The authors Isaac S. Kohane and Alai Eran inadvertently make the case
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MEASURING GHOSTS A recent article in Science Translational Medicine asks the question “Can We Measure Autism ?” To my mind this begs the question, “is there really something called “autism” that we should be trying to measure ?”…
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MEASURING GHOSTS A recent article in Science Translational Medicine asks the question “Can We Measure Autism ?” To my mind this begs the question, “is there really something called “autism” that we should be trying to measure ?”. The authors Isaac S. Kohane and Alai Eran inadvertently make the case
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: The sickening first response of government to disaster
THE SICKENING FIRST RESPONSE OF GOVERNMENT TO DISASTER Typhoon Haiyan is perhaps the most devastating weather event to ever hit land. More than 10,000 people have been killed, and the full details are still very much uncertain. The Philippines has had more than its share of natural disasters –
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THE SICKENING FIRST RESPONSE OF GOVERNMENT TO DISASTER Typhoon Haiyan is perhaps the most devastating weather event to ever hit land. More than 10,000 people have been killed, and the full details are still very much uncertain. …
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THE SICKENING FIRST RESPONSE OF GOVERNMENT TO DISASTER Typhoon Haiyan is perhaps the most devastating weather event to ever hit land. More than 10,000 people have been killed, and the full details are still very much uncertain. The Philippines has had more than its share of natural disasters –
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: What is Anarchism: An Introduction
WHAT IS ANARCHISM: AN INTRODUCTION By Donald Rooum, Freedom Press, London 1993 ISBN 0 900384 66 2 It has been many years since I have read a non-historical introduction to anarchism. There are a great number of them, and to my mind they should live up to certain criteria.
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WHAT IS ANARCHISM: AN INTRODUCTION By Donald Rooum, Freedom Press, London 1993 ISBN 0 900384 66 2 It has been many years since I have read a non-historical introduction to anarchism. There are a great num…
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WHAT IS ANARCHISM: AN INTRODUCTION By Donald Rooum, Freedom Press, London 1993 ISBN 0 900384 66 2 It has been many years since I have read a non-historical introduction to anarchism. There are a great number of them, and to my mind they should live up to certain criteria.
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Syria- A Short History
SYRIA – A SHORT HISTORY By Phillip K. Hitti, Colier Books, New York 1961 This book is an abridgement of the author’s previous work ‘History of Syria Including Lebanon and Palestine’ (1951). Before the present ‘Arab Spring’ and the subsequent civil war in Syria this country wasn’t
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SYRIA – A SHORT HISTORY By Phillip K. Hitti, Colier Books, New York 1961 This book is an abridgement of the author’s previous work ‘History of Syria Including Lebanon and Palestine’ (1951). Before the present ‘Arab Spring’ and the subsequent civil war in Syria this country wasn’t
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NORMAN BETHUNE AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION: A GREAT CANADIAN LIE If you visit pretty well any Canadian government site, or one receiving its funding from the government, you will come across the claim that the Canadian Communist surgeon Norman Bethune founded the first mobile blood transfusion unit in the world
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Reading Mark Twain…’Christian Science’
Reading Mark Twain…’Christian Science’ ‘Christian Science’….Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1907 I was continuing my task of reading anything available, in print or on the internet, when I came upon this book, over a century old, in the recesses of one of my storage boxes. The volume
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: The Spanish Inquisition by Joseph Perez
The Spanish Inquisition [Joseph Perez, Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-10790-0 ; Translated from the French] I found this brief history and analysis of the Spanish Inquisition to be a real eye opener. The institution is followed from its inception in 1479 to its final abolition in 1834. The
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: CONJUNCTION
GREAT CONJUNCTION: A great conjunction in the east south east sky tonight. Perfect visibility here in Winnipeg with Jupiter slightly to the left and above the waxing Moon. Gotta get out there with binoculars, 41 below windchill or not.Frozen but happy in Winnipeg.
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: A Freer Market
A FREE-ER MARKET One of the perpetual myths of our so-called capitalist society is that we have the closest approach to a “free market”, and that this is all to the good as it connects with our other freedoms. Is this true ? Certainly some like the left libertarians who
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