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Montaigne's famous defense of Raymond Sebond, the proponent of natural theology, in which he lays out a profoundly, even shockingly skeptical view of human knowledge.

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Happy Good Friday, everybody. Here are a few interesting historical images of the "harrowing of Hell" tradition drawn from various Christian iconographic sources.

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Here's what I'm having students read this week, just in case you're wondering what a true tenured radical does.

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Here's what I'm having students read this week, just in case you're wondering what a true tenured radical does.

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Here's what I'm having students read this week, just in case you're wondering what a true tenured radical does.

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An Oxford professor examines the gradual takeover of all policy writing on education by the language of business management: "efficiency," "providers," "audits," "performance indicators," etc. This kind of thinking, he says, has gradually obscured any leg

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An incredible collection of illustrations of strange and beautiful shapes taken from nature: microscopic organisms, fungi, sea animals, etc. Hard to describe, but worth a look.

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Lantos will be familiar to anyone who's seen Spielberg's Holocaust documentary, "Last Days," as well as anyone who's followed human-rights debates in Congress over the past thirty years. His death (from esophageal cancer, at age 80) is a real loss.

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Two lesser-known pieces of writing from Lincoln that give some hints about his religious beliefs. Lincoln was notoriously cagey about his religious commitments -- he never attended church regluarly, nor did he ever make a public proclamation of faith.

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Two lesser-known pieces of writing from Lincoln that give some hints about his religious beliefs. Lincoln was notoriously cagey about his religious commitments -- he never attended church regluarly, nor did he ever make a public proclamation of faith.

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In remote Chilean villages where fresh water is often scarce and contaminated, a simple new technology -- mesh sheets strung between posts -- captures condensation from coastal fog, providing an abundant and reliable source of cheap drinking water.

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Just a batch of links and lists. Probably of no interest to anyone. But I want to come back to these. Links also here: http://snipr.com/1yi3g

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Just a batch of links and lists. Probably of no interest to anyone. But I want to come back to these. Links also here: http://snipr.com/1yi3g

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Just a batch of links and lists. Probably of no interest to anyone. But I want to come back to these. Links also here: http://snipr.com/1yi3g

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Just a batch of links and lists. Probably of no interest to anyone. But I want to come back to these. Links also here: http://snipr.com/1yi3g

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Just a batch of links and lists. Probably of no interest to anyone. But I want to come back to these. Links also here: http://snipr.com/1yi3g

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Just a batch of links and lists. Probably of no interest to anyone. But I want to come back to these. Links also here: http://snipr.com/1yi3g

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One of the weirdest news stories I've read in some time. Apparently some criminal gangs are smuggling dwarves in duffel bags into the luggage compartment of long-haul buses, where they loot the other passengers' bags.

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Inspiring, but also provocative and fascinating. Havel basically insists that some kind of religiousness is all that can "save" us now, though he doesn't really say how or what.

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I love this writer. He's a genius. I need to get his most recent book. This is an excerpt from "Steady Hands at Seattle General," a short story of his almost entirely in dialogue form, published in the collection "Jesus's Son" (1997, I think).

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