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Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture and faith from the Antipodes.

Archive for January, 2009

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‘Darwin’s Legacy’ lectures

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Around the blogosphere I’ve noticed various people pointing out that the ten Darwin’s Legacy lectures from Stanford Continuing Studies are available via YouTube. (See Videos from Darwin’s Legacy course at Standford « The Dispersal of Darwin and ’10 Lectures on Darwin’s Legacy’ by Stanford University – RichardDawkins.net)

But they’re also available for iTunes (as part of the iTunesU section), so I might have a bash at downloading a few to watch on the train. Link here.

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Interesting slant on the Copyright Amendment Act

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Dylan Horrocks posts on why he, as an artist, opposes Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act that comes into affect in February. See Dylan’s Blog: Why I oppose s92 of the Copyright Amendment Act.

See also: Creative Freedom Foundation

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SBL Forum on U2 and Ps 23 in contemporary media

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

A couple of recent articles relevant to stuff I’m teaching later in the year.

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Slow blogging month

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Summer vacation, plus lots of stuff at work, general lethargy, plus preparing for things (e.g. the School’s stall at Parachute), means it’s a slow blogging month.

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New teeth?

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

My dentist is sending me reminders about coming in for a check up, which reminded me of this article from a few weeks back. Nation & World | Chew on this: We’ll soon be able to grow replacement teeth | Seattle Times Newspaper.

One of my eschatological hopes is new teeth :-)

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76 Reasonable Questions to ask about any technology

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Andii at Nouslife points to this nice summary list of questions Letters from a Skeptic by Gregory A. Boyd: 76 Reasonable Questions to ask about any technology by Jacques Ellul.

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Death as an engineering problem

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Interview: Jason Silva on How Science Will Make You Live Forever looks at scientific ‘salvation’ stories.

Besides, by labeling death a problem, it shifts our complacent attitude about death and turns it into an engineering problem, one that we can solve, much as we have solved impossible problems in the past.

The film referred to in the article is available on YouTube at YouTube – THE IMMORTALISTS – a short film

Related films – YouTube – Quest for immortality (New Scientist) and Do You Want To Live Forever? (Channel 4).

See also: Greenflame · Death, bioethics and transhumanism

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The Art of Happiness

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Two related links for today:

Firstly, Learn how to be happy points to the website CALM (Computer Assisted Learning for the Mind) at the University of Auckland highlighting mental resilience, healthy relationships, and finding meaning in life as the combined sources of genuine happiness.

Secondly, Science & Religion Today: Spirituality (Not Religion) Makes Kids Happy points to a study out of the University of British Columbia highlighting that “feeling one’s life has meaning and value (the personal aspect) and deep, quality interpersonal relationships (the communal aspect)—are strong predictors of happiness.” The full journal article appears to be available here for the moment.

Related link: Greenflame · Philosophy : A Guide to Happiness

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We have the technology to rebuild ourselves

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

A good recent summary of some of the developments in prosthetics.

See We have the technology to rebuild ourselves – tech – 07 January 2009 – New Scientist.

Far-fetched as it may seem now, what if cosmetic surgery was to one day extend to replacing perfectly good arms and legs with more beautiful or powerful ones in the hope of producing another Michael Phelps or Victoria’s Secret model? “Then we will have to evolve as a society a new morality, new ethics and codes of conduct, won’t we?” says Gow.

(David Gow is the inventor of the i-Limb hand).

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A couple of science-religion links

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Firstly, 12 Elegant Examples of Evolution | Wired Science from Wired.com.

Secondly, Creation Lens: Exploring the World, Discovering God (EWDG) with the related Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) DVD resources. (Hat tip to Tensegrities » Blog Archive » Creation lens).

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