Protons and Champagne Mix as New Particle Collider Is Revved Up By DENNIS OVERBYE - Published: September 10, 2008 BATAVIA, Ill. — Science rode a beam of subatomic particles and a river of Champagne into the future on Wednesday. After 14 years of labor, scientists at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva successfully activated the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest, most powerful particle collider and… http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/science/11collider.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Friendly Invaders By CARL ZIMMER - Published: September 8, 2008 New Zealand is home to 2,065 native plants found nowhere else on Earth. They range from magnificent towering kauri trees to tiny flowers that form tightly packed mounds called vegetable sheep… http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09inva.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss The Origins of the Universe: A Crash Course By BRIAN GREENE - Published: September 11, 2008 THREE hundred feet below the outskirts of Geneva lies part of a 17-mile-long tubular track, circling its way across the French border and back again, whose interior is so pristine and whose nearly 10,000 surrounding magnets so frigid, that it's one of the emptiest and coldest regions of space in the solar... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12greene.html?th&emc=th For Stem Cells, a Role on the Battlefield By ANDREW POLLACK - Published: September 8, 2008 When people envision using human embryonic stem cells for "regenerative medicine," they often talk about making neurons to treat Parkinson's disease, cardiac cells to repair the damage caused by a heart attack, or pancreatic islet cells to replace those destroyed by diabetes… http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/health/09bloo.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Stolen guns used in fatal Wash. shooting rampage By MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press Writer SEATTLE - Authorities said the man accused of a shooting rampage that left six people dead in northwest Washington stole the guns used in the attacks as well as a pickup truck involved in a high-speed chase… http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_re_us/shooting_rampage Who are the British creationists? By Julian Joyce - BBC News Widely believed in the United States, creationism - the belief that God created the earth and man in six days - is enjoying a resurgence of support in the UK, say its believers and its critics… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7613403.stm | |||||
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(Some publications may require that you sign up for membership to view their article.) ATHEISM Children in Christian families more likely to attend church ... http://www.nolanchart.com/article4857.html Ex-preacher speaks to students about atheism http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=62707&comview=1&sc=1 Student of 'gay Jesus' fame aims at Islam http://www.chroniclet.com/2008/09/17/student-of-%E2%80%98gay-jesus%E2%80%99-fame-aims-at-islam_122/ Ask an atheist! How would you convert an atheist?
BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/123/story/593454html David E. Comings, MD Discusses His Book Did Man Create God http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/74517
EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/darwin-lecture-0912.html Church sorry to Darwin, 126 years after belittling evolution theory http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/20440.htm Don't get creative with facts when it comes to evolution http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle/article4748857.ece?openComment=true Evolution theory: Church sorry to Darwin http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/15/anglicanism.evolution The Darwin wars: still raging http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/17/evolution.religion The Catholic Church is to debate God and evolution http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4769085.ece Vatican, ally defend legitimacy of evolution http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/16/europe/EU-Vatican-Evolution.php Evolution fine but no apology to Darwin: Vatican http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSLG62672220080916 Creationism in class? Brits say, heavens, no http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-london-creation2_goering_sep18,0,3893579.story Butteville board drops Intelligent Design http://www.mtshastanews.com/news/x1374604871/Butteville-board-drops-Intelligent-Design No place for creationism in science class, state says Vatican Official Defends Evolution Against 'Useless' Creationism http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,424942,00.html
SCIENCE He cooked up a new theory on evolution http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/09/15/he_cooked_up_a_new_theory_on_evolution/ Infidelity Dissected: New Research On Why People Cheat ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2008) — The probability of someone cheating during the course of a relationship varies between 40 and 76 percent. "It's very high," says Geneviève Beaulieu-Pelletier, PhD student at the Université de Montréal's Department of Psychology... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908185238.htm Curbing Coal Emissions Alone Might Avert Climate Danger, Say Researchers ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2008) — An ongoing rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels might be kept below harmful levels if emissions from coal are phased out within the next few decades, say researchers... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080910160757.htm Untapped Potential Of Antidepressants For Cancer ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2008) — A comprehensive review of current scientific literature, published in the peer-reviewed journal ecancer, has suggested that antidepressants can help the human body fight cancer by boosting its own immune response, amongst other mechanisms... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080911142620.htm Computational Biochemist Uncovers A Molecular Clue To Evolution ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2008) — A Florida State University researcher who uses high-powered computers to map the workings of proteins has uncovered a mechanism that gives scientists a better understanding of how evolution occurs at the molecular level... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080910120953.htm Robot Scout: Fly Me (Safely) To The Moon ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — The first attempt to land humans on the moon -- Apollo 11 -- was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw that their ship's computer was taking... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080909155117.htm Psychiatry: When The Mirror Becomes An Enemy ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — A nose that's too big, hair that's too curly or a beauty mark in the wrong place – who hasn't focused on a small detail of their appearance while staring at a mirror... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908185236.htm My, What Big Teeth You Had! Extinct Species Had Huge Teeth On Roof Of Mouth ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — When the world's land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn't the forbiddingly icy place it is now. But paleontologists have found a previously unknown amphibious predator species that probably still made it less than hospitable... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080912075202.htm Hurricane Ike Impact Felt In Space ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — Hurricane Ike has delayed the scheduled Friday arrival of a Russian Progress cargo ship at the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080912101406.htm Brains Rely On Old And New Mechanisms To Diminish Fear ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — Humans have developed complex thought processes that can help to regulate their emotions, but these processes are also linked with evolutionarily older mechanisms that are common across species, according to a study by neuroscientists at New York and Rutgers... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080910133653.htm Good Luck, Not Superiority, Gave Dinosaurs Their Edge, Study Of Crocodile Cousins Reveals ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — In a paper published in Science, Steve Brusatte and Professor Mike Benton challenge the general consensus among scientists that there must have been something special about dinosaurs that helped them rise to prominence... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080911150042.htm Nano-sized 'Cargo Ships' To Target And Destroy Tumors Developed ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — Real-world problems come in two broad flavors: those requiring sequential reasoning and those requiring transformative reasoning: a break from past thinking and restructuring followed by an insight (also known as Eureka or "Aha!"), which is a process by which... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080911185104.htm Beautiful Death: Halos Of Planetary Nebulae Revealed ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2008) — Stars without enough mass to turn into exploding supernovae end their lives blowing away most of their mass in a non-explosive, but intense stellar wind. Only a hot stellar core remains in the form of a white dwarf... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080911142411.htm Switched-on New Nanotechnology Paints For Hospitals Could Kill Superbugs ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2008) — New nanotechnology paints for walls, ceilings, and surfaces could be used to kill hospital superbugs when fluorescent lights are switched on, scientists heard at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080909204542.htm 1843 Stellar Eruption May Be New Type Of Star Explosion ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2008) — Eta Carinae, the galaxy's biggest, brightest and perhaps most studied star after the sun, has been keeping a secret: Its giant outbursts appear to be driven by an entirely new type of stellar explosion that is fainter than a typical supernova and does not destroy the star... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080910133659.htm Geologists Dig Up One Of The Largest Lakes In The World, Dammed By Ice During Last Ice Age ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2008) — Geologists are digging in the bed on the western bank of what was once a 700-800 kilometre-long lake along the 62nd parallel in Russia. Large lakes, dammed up by a huge ice sheet one or more times during the last Ice Age, used to dominate this enormous plain... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908073744.htm Getting to the bottom of evolution http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080917/full/news.2008.1117.html Last of the Neanderthals By Stephen S. Hall - National Geographic News The latest research and a stunningly lifelike new reconstruction help to illustrate the lives of our closest prehistoric relatives and uncover the reasons why they vanished… Hadron Collider to Have "Practical" Spin-Offs? John Roach - National Geographic News In addition to solving big mysteries of the universe, the massive atom smasher may help treat disease, improve the Internet, and open the door to faster-than-light travel, scientists say. Scientists find 'redesigned hammer' that forged evolution of ... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/yu-sf091808.php
SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE Sarkozys Greet Pontiff in Paris http://www.buzzle.com/articles/222874.html McCain faces tough questions on abortion on US TV http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed2/idUSN12398886 The Pope has an audience with Carla http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-pope-has-an-audience-with-carla-928796.html Church spat might head to Supreme Court Pope tries to woo secular French back to the Church (2nd Roundup) ACLJFilesReplyBriefinSupremeCourtFirstAmendmentCase;Numerous ... Montgomery County sets precedent for equal time, equal access Key Political Moments: JFK In Houston http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2008/09/18/key-political-moments-jfk-in-houston.htm Survey shows increase in support for separation church and state http://www.thedmonline.com/1.748258 Sarah Palin, faith-based mayor http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/18/palin_iacc/ Amendment 2 Causes Debate http://www.wjhg.com/news/headlines/28558539.html Church and state on collision course http://www.nzherald.conz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10532757 Religious leaders learn to stay on IRS's good side http://www.ocregister.com/articles/church-religious-irs-2162352-leaders-drake?slideshow=1 Groups fight DC shelter funds http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/19/groups-fight-dc-shelter-funds/
MISCELLANEOUS Colo. Springs looking at more charges against atheist attacker http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9010334 UnNews:Large Hadron Collider 'destroys God by accident' GENEVA, Switzerland – Concerns that the Large Hadron Collider might destroy the Earth proved unfounded on Wednesday, but scientists warned that they may instead have accidentally destroyed God shortly after powering up the machine… http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/UnNews:Large_Hadron_Collider_'destroys_God_by_accident' Of Sacred and Secular Half of Americans believe http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/19/half-of-americans-believe-in-angels/
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