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An article at New Scientist on Six 'uniquely' human traits now found in animals . I confess that I was rather puzzled on reading it;...

Kevin Edgcomb notes the interesting curriculum at Thomas Aquinas College . It would make an awesome reading list. I've bolded the ones ...

This story is great ( ht ), even setting aside the melodramatic tone. In the British House of Commons Ian Paisley said about the recent eco...

St. Michael's on his Mountain in the sea-roads of the north (Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.) Where the grey seas glitter a...

Virginia Woolf famously said , "Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer." But this has, I thin...

* The 79th Philosophers' Carnival is up at "Possibly Philosophy" * Timothy Burke analyzes the slow (and in the future, possib...

As to temper and conceit and impudence and brass and lying, he was not half so bad twelve months ago as he is now. That is where I should ha...