Another great funk album. Who knew so much Funkadelic stuff was available on
Emusic? Yes, I’ve subscribed again.
_America Eats its Young._
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I’m really grooving on this one. The first time I listened through it I thought, “so this what Syd Barrett would have sounded like if he was funky.” I’m not sure if that’s [...]

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I don’t particularly want to write _All Religion All the Time_, but we’ve had long conversation “here”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/08/24/were-not-all-atheists/ and “here”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/08/29/the-prayer-study/. A lot of interesting ideas have been touched on in the process. Like, for example, the notion that universality gives morality its true value. Let’s see if we can find the argument in the comments.
Ah. “There [...]

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In the “comments here”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/08/24/were-not-all-atheists/#comment-4641, Renali reminds me of the MANTRA II study by Dr. Mitchell Krucoff of Duke University Medical Center. (”Forbes discussion here”:http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/07/14/hscout526845.html, “BBC discussion here”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3193902.stm.) In this study, it was concluded that noetic healing — prayer — performed remotely, and without knowledge of the patient, had no apparent effect on patients undergoing heart [...]

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I am posting this not necessarily for you to read, although you may want to.
I am posting this so I remember to “read it later”:http://alistapart.com/articles/readerstayawhile.
bq. Every opening paragraph is the beginning of a delicate and transient relationship between reader and writer. This relationship begins quietly, usually without much fanfare—and if it’s properly initiated, the reader [...]

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I somehow managed to get a trumpet snail in my fish tank. And then I had two, and then four, and then suddenly I noticed I probably had a couple hundred. When I fed my “aquatic dwarf frog”:http://allaboutfrogs.org/ianfo/mypets/dwarfs.html — at the time, the only inhabitant of the tank — the gravel would appear to come [...]

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