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What Matters? Environmental Ethics and the World in 2050
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:00 PM EDT (Psychology Today)
In the fall, I will be teaching environmental ethics for the first time, and one of the most informative books I’ve been reading in preparation is The World in 2050, by Laurence C.
Sex Offender Gets Custody Of Girl - Jacksonville News Story - WJXT Jacksonville
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:08 PM EDT (News4Jax.com - Local News)
Family and friends held up signs in front of the Baker County courthouse Monday asking for the public's help in getting a nearly 4-year-old girl back after a judge granted custody of her to a sex offender.
Personal Religion in Fantasy Works: J.K. Rowling and Joss Whedon as Spiritual Leaders
Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:31 PM EDT
With the inevitable success of the final "Harry Potter" film comes the inevitable uproar from religious conservatives, who have, since the book series' inception in 1997 (hard to believe!), found much to complain about.
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Marriage confers 'little benefit' to children's development
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:26 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Marriage confers "little if any benefit" in terms of a child's development, according to new research, challenging the rationale behind the prime minister's desire to offer tax breaks to couples who tie the knot. New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found " …
Rupert Murdoch tells British Parliament: I'm humbled over phone hacking
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:12 AM EDT (Forbes)
Media titan Rupert Murdoch declared that his appearance Tuesday before a British parliamentary inquiry was "the most humble day of my life," taking a contrite tone over the phone-hacking scandal rocking his global empire. Appearing alongside Murdoch, his son James apologized for …
The John Next Door
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:47 AM EDT (Newsweek)
The men who buy sex are your neighbors and colleagues. A new study reveals how the burgeoning demand for porn and prostitutes is warping personal relationships and endangering women and girls. Men of all ages, races, religions, and backgrounds do it.
Science and Religion: God didn't make Man. Man made Gods.
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:13 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)
Before John Lennon imagined "living life in peace," he conjured "no heaven … / no hell below us …/ and no religion too." No religion: What was Lennon summoning? For starters, a world without "divine" messengers, like Osama bin Laden, sparking vi …
Kids safer when grandparents drive
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:59 AM EDT (Times of India)
Previous evidence has shown that car crashes are more common in older drivers, mostly those over 65. Now, forget that preconceived notion as a new study has revealed that children are safer in cars being driven by their grandparents than by their parents.
Study Finds Personality Plays Role In Body Weight
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:49 AM EDT (Medical News Today)
People with personality traits of high neuroticism and low conscientiousness are likely to go through cycles of gaining and losing weight throughout their lives, according to an examination of 50 years of data in a study published by the American Psychological Association. …
Adolescent binge drinking can damage spatial working memory
Seeded on Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:44 AM EDT (Science Daily)
Binge or "heavy episodic" drinking is prevalent during adolescence, raising concerns about alcohol's effects on crucial neuromaturational processes during this developmental period.
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