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 Today's News: Stunningly Preserved 165-Million-Year Old Spider Fossil Found Author: Tia Ghose Source: Wired Title: STUNNINGLY PRESERVED 165-MILLION-YEAR OLD SPIDER FOSSIL FOUND Scientists have unearthed an almost perfectly preserved spider fossil in China dating back to the middle Jurassic era, 165 million years ago. The fossilized spiders, Eoplectreurys gertschi, are older than the only two other specimens known by around 120 million years. The level of detail preserved in the fossils is amazing, said paleontologist Paul Selden of the University of Kansas and lead author of the study appearing Feb. 6 in Naturwissenschaften. “You go in with a microscope, and bingo! It’s fantastic.” | |
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Today's News: Reincarnation: The Cabinet Of Dr. Stevenson Author: Michael Kaplan (blog) Source: Psychology Today Title: REINCARNATION: THE CABINET OF DR. STEVENSON Why, in their past lives, was everybody a princess or mighty warrior? Didn't anybody dig ditches in the ancient world? Who took out the garbage? Who fed the elephants? Despite these quibbles, reincarnation has many attractions as an idea: it offers us another spin of the wheel; it puts punishment or reward for our deeds into a more credible landscape than the flames or the clouds; it simplifies the question of where all this consciousness goes to or comes from. It's tidy and sensible, like recycling. And it makes each of us special - if only because we once ruled Egypt. If you shy away from this seductive principle because it is unscientific, take heart: Professor Ian Stevenson, described by colleagues as "a methodical, careful, even cautious, investigator, whose personality is on the obsessive side," spent a lifetime documenting instances of "reincarnation-type cases." The evidence he presents is this: over 2,500 cases, from cultures around the world, where small children would describe previous lives and deaths they had experienced that turned out to correspond in detail with those of real people whose stories the children could not have known. | |
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Today's News: Author To Discuss Paganism At Pacific Author: The Record Source: The Record (CA) Title: AUTHOR TO DISCUSS PAGANISM AT PACIFIC Margot Adler, an author and correspondent for National Public Radio, will lecture about paganism in America at 8 p.m. next Tuesday at the Long Theatre at University of the Pacific. Adler is a practicing Wiccan. She is author of "Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today," a book considered by scholars to be an authoritative guide. Her most recent book is "Heretic's Heart: A Journey through Spirit and Revolution." The event is free and open to the public. | |
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Haiti Awash In Christian Aid, Evangelism Author: Kari Huus Source: MSNBC Title: HAITI AWASH IN CHRISTIAN AID, EVANGELISM   The horrific destruction and human suffering in Haiti exert an almost irresistible pull on U.S. Christian missionaries eager to help. But as the jailing last week of 10 missionaries from a small Baptist church in Idaho illustrates, best intentions don’t always translate into good deeds in the chaotic aftermath of the monster earthquake.Many mission groups provide essential services for Haitians — indeed some have evolved into key service providers, working alongside nonprofit groups and the U.N. to fill gaps that the Haitian government can’t fill. But other missions, even when well-meaning, risk running afoul of Haiti’s culture and laws. “There’s an issue that is coming up a lot right now,” said Laurent Dubois, a professor of history and romance studies at Duke University and an expert on Haiti. “It’s the difference between wanting to help and being able to do good. Most don’t speak any Creole, or have the cultural knowledge. … (As a result) they are going to be very surprised by what they see in Haiti.” | |
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In Kensington, A Store Neighbors Believe In Author: Kia Gregory Source: Philadelphia Inquirer Title: IN KENSINGTON, A STORE NEIGHBORS BELIEVE IN Angel Perez leans on the counter in his botanica and listens intently as a tall blond woman tells him how she just lost her job - and her sense of purpose. Perez's Botanica Maria sits on Fifth Street in the Fairhill section of North Philadelphia, between a laundromat and a pizza shop. The narrow, dimly lit store is stuffed with candles of various colors for various things, like red for love, yellow for good fortune, and green for money. There are candles dedicated to patron saints and candles for remedies, such as a "shut up" candle to stop people from slandering you. In the shop of Santeria wares, there are also beads, crucifixes, holy water, soaps, oils, and sprays such as Go Away Evil; porcelain statues of Jesus Christ, the Blessed Mother, St. Lazarus, a sitting Indian, and La Madama, a former slave who resembles Aunt Jemima; and ornate horseshoes decorated with gold mini-saints, cowrie shells, and flowers, which Perez makes in a workroom behind the store. | |
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Billboards On Tampa Bay Roads Duel Over Existence Of God Author: Dong-Phuong Nguyen Source: St Petersburg Times (FL) Title: BILLBOARDS ON TAMPA BAY ROADS DUEL OVER EXISTENCE OF GOD Two billboards, in Hillsborough County near Fowler Avenue and 17th Street and in Pinellas County near Ulmerton Road and U.S. 19, are the latest in a publicity blitz over religion. They are part of a national advertising campaign by the United Coalition of Reason. A group representing people who do not believe in God or any gods has revved up an awareness campaign in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. The United Coalition of Reason paid to have two billboards erected that feature a blue sky with clouds and the words: "Are you good without God? Millions are." The move is the latest in an advertising blitz involving religion that has people talking. | |
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North Idaho’s Scourge Of Hatred Shows Signs Of Resurgence Author: Bill Morlin Source: The Spokesman (ID) Title: NORTH IDAHO’S SCOURGE OF HATRED SHOWS SIGNS OF RESURGENCE In a small house in Coeur d’Alene, 89-year-old Sid Rosen lives out his sunset years going through his life’s mementos. Tucked away in a box, the World War II veteran finds two small, dog-eared photographs of anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on his Coeur d’Alene restaurant in 1980. The vandalism – which still angers Rosen, his son says – was one of the first in a series of incidents that led to creation of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations.Today, as the nationally recognized group prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary, other racist, anti-Semitic graffiti and literature have been turning up not far from Rosen’s home. There’s also been a spike in racist activity and hate crimes in Spokane and other Pacific Northwest communities – indeed, almost everywhere in the United States. Racist graffiti, acts of malicious harassment and distribution of hate literature in 1980 marked the emergence of the Aryan Nations in North Idaho, recalls Marshall Mend, a founding member of the human relations task force. | |
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