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Summary statements of general principles which explain regularly observed events.
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Cutting Calories May Be Key To Evolutionary Fitness
Published July 4, 2009, 3:07 am, Medical News Today
Charles Darwin and his contemporaries postulated that food consumption in birds and mammals was limited by resource levels, that is, animals would eat as much as they could while food was plentiful and produce as many offspring as this would allow them to.
Alabama Voices: Government as servant
Published July 4, 2009, 2:18 am, Montgomery Advertiser
For this Fourth of July, let us recall the language of the Declaration of Independence and its original, limited purpose which is announced in the first three lines: To proclaim the independence of the colonies united in the Continental Congress by dissolving "the political bands" that had connected them to Great Britain for more than 200 years and "to assume among the powers of the earth that ...
Bible doesn't condemn homosexuality
Published July 4, 2009, 2:15 am, Greeley Tribune
I have always considered myself to be a tolerant person, but I have to admit to being absolutely appalled and disgusted by the recent column "In the pursuit of happiness, don't run into the highway" and its linking of homosexuality...
evolutionist
Published July 4, 2009, 1:43 am, Kitchener - Waterloo Record
SANTUBONG, MALAYSIA (Jul 4, 2009) -- As he trudges past chest-high ferns and butterflies the size of saucers, George Beccaloni scours a jungle hilltop overlooking the South China Sea for signs of a long-forgotten, Victorian-era scientist.
How to best reach those with HIV?
Published July 4, 2009, 1:33 am, Vancouver Sun
Work to curb the spread of AIDS in British Columbia hasn't slowed down any in the years since doctors here -- joined by Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr -- took on the federal government in a fight to save the lives of four men.
Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - July 4 09
Published July 4, 2009, 12:38 am, MasterNewMedia.org
Media literacy is about asking pertinent questions about what\'s there, and noticing what\'s not there. And it\'s the instinct to question what lies behind media productions - the motives, the money, the values and the ownership - and to be aware of how these factors influence content (Source: TeacherInfo ) Photo credit: Alan Levine Inside this Media Literacy digest: The Edgeless University - ...
Carnegie Museum researcher may have found 'missing link'
Published July 3, 2009, 9:04 pm, Valley Independent
An international team including a Pittsburgh researcher has it discovered a fossil in Myanmar that challenges the popular theory that humans evolved from a primate in Africa.
Clear the path for pedestrians
Published July 3, 2009, 7:23 pm, Dundas Star News
The paper pile is at a precarious angle and threatening to slide off the table, Faithful Reader. For some reason I have more than the usual collection of hastily written telephone messages and notes on scraps of paper, old envelopes.
Does personal sophistication reduce human flaws?
Published July 3, 2009, 5:50 pm, The Herald-Mail
Almost to a person, we would not hesitate to support the proposition that we are dramatically improved in character and personality by exposure to higher levels of education.
How to police popslash
Published July 3, 2009, 5:44 pm, u.tv
This week the case against the author a violent rape fantasy was dropped - further evidence that existing obscenity laws have no teeth. But would we have it any other way?
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Sat Jul 4
- Symmetry as a Compositional Determinant: VII Bartok & Webern: Bela Bartok's Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celeste and Anton Webern's Variations for Piano, Op. 27. ...symmetry can be and has been used as a powerful constructive principle, tying together several simultaneous levels of a compositional superstructure . [doctoral diss.]
- http://carbon. cudenver.edu/~ mryder/itc_dat a/ant_dff.html: What is actor network theory_definit ions
- Jon Kleinberg - social network theory
- sheldon_penny: fic: She'd Be California
- Well Played 1.0: Video Game, Value and Meaning: Online edition of mammoth games criticism/theo ry anthology
- A List Apart: Articles: Visual Decision Making: Nice article, getting into gestalt perception, attractive aesthetics - Jakob Nielsen's vocal scepticism of graphic design, does it overlook subtle moods and context, Donald Norman picks up on it - affective (emotional, rapid, values) and cognitive (considered, meaning) responses - visceral, behavioural and reflective processes
- CS6998-006 Network Theory
Fri Jul 3
- xkcd - Game Theory & Love
- Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet (pdf): I just wish I found it earlier.
- Culture Machine
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