Her article is worth reading for those with a sense of history and/or an interest in spiritual matters The Jesuit order occupies an energetic niche of unorthodoxy within the Catholic Church. Washington Post reporter Michelle Boorstein wrote that Jesuits are disappearing from the Washington D.C. area (and the developed world generally), but their philosophy is [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Catholicism, Easter, Fewer Jesuit priests this Easter but more people learning Jesuit ideals, Michelle Boorstein, unorthodoxy
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- 24 April 2011 – 08:16
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- By BrainiYak
Viral companions Bacteria being part of “us” (with a significant proportion contributing to our welfare) has hit mainstream media, but its viral equivalent not yet. Last month, Science had this to say about our viral ecology: For a start, the variety and sheer number of viruses that inhabit us put our bacterial companions to shame. [...]
Categories: Medicine,Science,Uncategorized
Tagged: bacteriophage, Elizabeth Pennisi, Frederic Bushman, Going Viral Exploring the Role of Viruses in Our Bodies
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- 22 April 2011 – 17:23
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- By BrainiYak
Think about the huge volume of water that these invasive mussels are affecting Zebra and quagga mussels are non-native introductions to the Great Lakes. They feed on algae in the water and are depleting the food supply for native fish species, as well as everything else that depends on the algal supply: The blitzkrieg advance [...]
Categories: Environment
Tagged: Donald Scavia, ecology, food web, Gary Fahnenstiel, guagga mussel, Incidental Oligotrophication of North American Great Lakes, Invasive mussels causing massive ecological changes in Great Lakes, Jim Erickson, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Mary Anne Evans, zebra museel
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- 20 April 2011 – 07:22
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- By BrainiYak
Is our barbarians’ English better suited to efficient, emergency communication? Read what Minae Mizumura said in regard to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: One unlikely side-effect of the Japanese crisis has been a new critique of our use of honorifics. One tends to associate honorifics with social hierarchy, but they play another critical role: they [...]
Categories: Culture,Environment
Tagged: Brownie, Fukushima Daiichi, honorific, insider, Japan How to talk to a tragedy, language, Minae Mizumura, nuclear disaster, outsider, TEPCO, Yukio Edano
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- 18 April 2011 – 11:09
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- By BrainiYak
Look at Tom Tomorrow’s “Language Is a Virus” cartoon http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/11/965457/-Language-is-a-Virus?detail=hide
Categories: Culture
Tagged: cartoon, elderly, extreme, greed, Language Is a Virus, lunatic, Republican, Right Wing, Tom Tomorrow
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- 15 April 2011 – 08:32
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- By BrainiYak
Judging by its abstract, this paper might be interesting Elissaios Papyrakis and Geethanjali Selvaretnam said: The paper analyses religiosity through a cost-benefit framework, where decisions at each point in time depend on expected social and spiritual benefits attached to religious adherence (both contemporaneously, as well as in the afterlife), the probability of entering heaven in [...]
Categories: Culture,Psychology
Tagged: afterlife, church membership, cost-benefit analysis, Elissaios Papyrakis, Geethanjali Selvaretnam, salvation, The greying church the impact of life expentancy on religiosity, University of East Anglia
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- 12 April 2011 – 13:19
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- By BrainiYak
Nipah virus kills about 75 percent of the people it infects in Bangladesh and leaves many survivors with severely damaged neurological systems Researchers early on traced the virus’ vector to fruit-eating bats, but the natural source of their recurring infections escaped detection. Epidemiologists discovered that at least some of the deceased had drunk raw date [...]
Categories: Environment,Medicine,Public Health
Tagged: Breaking the Chain in Bangladesh, date palm, fruit-eating bats, Nipah, Richard Stone, Third World, virus
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- 8 April 2011 – 11:11
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- By BrainiYak
I think about this every time I fertilize my sloping, concrete-hard lawn Fertilizer and manure are prime contributors to water pollution, so the mechanics of dosage, application, and runoff are significant. Al Rotz and colleagues did computer simulations on three different kinds of farms to come up with an answer, insofar as liquid manure from [...]
Categories: Agriculture
Tagged: broadcast spreading, C. A. Rotz, C. J. Della, D. B. Beegleb, dairy, disk injection, Environmental and Economic Comparisons of Manure Application Methods in Farming Systems, fertilizer, incorporation by tillage, liquid manure, no-till, P. J. A. Kleinmana, soil aeration, swine, T. L. Veitha
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- 6 April 2011 – 16:08
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- By BrainiYak
When self-interest calls, it is easy to park our brains in delusion’s soothing space My guess is that I could ask a beach-living 10-year old whether she thought that humans would be able to recover every carcass of deceased dolphins and whales in the Gulf of Mexico, and get the appropriate “no” response. Cetacean carcasses [...]
Categories: Environment,Science
Tagged: Andrew Read, BP, cetacean mortality, David Lusseau, Deepwater Horizon, dolphin, Gulf of Mexico, John Calambokidid, Jooke Robbins, Lars Bejder, rob Williams, Scott Kraus, Shane Gero, Underestimating the damage, whale
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- 4 April 2011 – 15:56
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- By BrainiYak
The drama These findings will probably surface in the news media as if they have actionable meaning: These results show that oral consumption of lipids and caffeinated coffee can independently and additively decrease glucose tolerance. Incretin hormones could explain at least in part this impaired glucose homeostasis. © 2011 Marie-Soleil Beaudoin, Lindsay E. Robinson and [...]
Categories: Medicine,Public Health,Science
Tagged: An Oral Lipid Challenge, caffeine, coffee, diabetes, fast food, Got a Hankering for Fast Food?, incretin, insulin, Lindsay Robinson, Marie-Soleil Beaudoin, pancreas, Terry Graham, type 2, University of Guelph
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- 1 April 2011 – 15:11
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- By BrainiYak