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2011-01-28T06:00:45-05:00

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The last Louvin brother dies

Last updated on: January 28, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Louvin Brothers brought their close, tight harmonies from the world of Gospel music into country and then into early rock ‘n’ roll and today’s pop music. Their sound can be heard in the Everly Brothers, the Beatles, and on and on. Charlie Louvin, 83, the country singer and Grand Old Opry performer who, as half of the duo The Louvin Brothers, influenced such later performers as the Everly Brothers died at his home in Warface, Tenn. from complications of... Read more

2011-01-28T05:30:16-05:00

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Arab revolutions

Last updated on: January 28, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Just like what happened in the Communist states, popular uprisings have overthrown the autocratic government in Tunisia. Now the similarly autocratic government in Egypt is facing mass demonstrations. It’s also happening in Yemen. The government in Lebanon has also fallen. We’re glad about that, right? We believe in freedom and democracy and oppose oppressive regimes. And yet the United States has supported some of the Arab authoritarian regimes because they keep the radical jihadists under their thumb. Some are worried... Read more

2011-01-28T05:00:43-05:00

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More weird science

Last updated on: January 28, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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According to this article in The New Yorker, when scientists replicate an experiment, the results–proven initially–sometimes change with time. Drugs that at first are shown to be effective often are shown to be ineffective when tested later. The article cites one experiment whose results varied when it was performed in different locations. In many different scientific fields, effects decline with time. While Karl Popper imagined falsification occurring with a single, definitive experiment—Galileo refuted Aristotelian mechanics in an afternoon—the process... Read more

2011-01-27T06:00:21-05:00

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They thought she was Jewish

Last updated on: January 27, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Earlier I had blogged about how my former colleague Kristine Luken, a Christian missionary in Israel, was murdered. Her killers have been arrested: Four Palestinian men have been indicted in the stabbing death of American woman Kristine Luken who the suspects say was killed because they thought she was Jewish. Luken, 44, was a Christian missionary working in Israel. Four more Palestinians, all from the West Bank, have been arrested for providing logistical support to the alleged killers, but have... Read more

2011-01-27T05:45:59-05:00

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Cop drones

Last updated on: January 27, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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The small unmanned aircraft that are proving to be such a powerful weapon in our nation’s military operations are coming to a community near you. The police are going to get their hands on them. They have already been used in some limited cases against truly bad guys, but so far the FAA has to approve each use of them and only for “emergency” purposes. But in 2013 the FAA expects to loosen the requirements, allowing the police to use... Read more

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2011-01-27T05:15:38-05:00

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“Something close to a creationist” and “potentially evangelical”

Last updated on: January 27, 2011 at 5:15 am By Gene Veith

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A professor passed over for a job because he questioned evolution sued for religious discrimination. The university has settled: The University of Kentucky will pay $125,000 to an astronomy professor who sued the school for religious discrimination. A motion filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Lexington said that both UK and C. Martin Gaskell, a research fellow at the University of Texas-Austin, now want the lawsuit thrown out. It had been scheduled to go to trial on Feb. 8.... Read more

Religious discrimination

2011-01-26T06:00:47-05:00

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State of the Union

Last updated on: January 26, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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I usually consider it my patriotic duty to watch the President’s State of the Union Address. I couldn’t this time. Tell me about it. Read more

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State of the Union Address 2011

2011-01-26T05:45:35-05:00

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Cyber-skepticism

Last updated on: January 26, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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The British newspaper The Guardian pulls together a number of books that are criticizing our brave new cyber-world: The way in which people frantically communicate online via Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern madness, according to a leading American sociologist. “A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological,” MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book, Alone Together, which is... Read more

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2011-01-26T05:00:33-05:00

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Attaining total security everywhere

Last updated on: January 26, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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A suicide bomber set himself off at the Moscow airport in an area where people wait for arriving passengers, killing 35 and wounding 180. So now security experts are trying to figure out how to implement security measures at ticket counters, baggage claim areas, and the rest of the terminal that has public access. Again we see the pattern: Airport security responds to a threat by imposing a security measure designed to make the attack physically impossible. Terrorists stop using... Read more

terrorism

airport security

2011-01-25T06:00:24-05:00

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What an organist learned

Last updated on: January 25, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Lynette Tedlund, a.k.a. the commenter on this blog known as “Booklover,” wrote a piece for her local newspaper on the topic “My First Job.” Her first job, along with her sisters, was organist for her church. Here is what she learned from that experience: Aside from forming in us an idea of what truly beautiful sacred music and hymnody is, the Lutheran liturgy that we played and participated in formed the very fiber of the women that we became. One will... Read more

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