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Remembering Stuurman
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust RUSSELL: Douwe Stuurman? HARDIN: Well, he’s one of a kind. He was one of...
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How to Avoid Sex
Not Now, Honey | Discovery News Video April 29, 2009 — Females of an Australian species of lizard rely on testosterone for a most unusual method of keeping amorous males off their backs, researchers...
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Assisted suicide
The Monday Interview: A growing number of medical professionals are supporting the idea of assisted dying. Dr Ann McPherson – who herself has only months to live – tells Jeremy Laurance why. Some...
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A hole in the neighbourhood
I went out to the driveway this morning to fetch The Globe and Mail – as I do most mornings. As I reached for the paper I glanced over at Muriel’s window next door – as I do most mornings. Muriel has...
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Happy Birthday, Son.
Fifty-five years ago today our first born son arrived on planet earth – more specifically in Orange, California. We got a deal on him since I was still in the Marine Corps – he cost just under $10. I...
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Happy Birthday, GB!
ERIK LANE MARCH 11, 1996 BLOCK B BIOGRAPHY: BOB LANE (GRANDFATHER) Bob Lane was born in Denver, Colorado on February 14, 1936. He was the fourth of five kids. He wasn’t born in a hospital because in...
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Sunday’s Sermon
Those readers who still go to church will relate to this opening: The readings for this morning are: A review of Glen Pettigrove, Forgiveness and Love, Oxford University Press, here. A review of...
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Changing minds
NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro asks Molly Melching about her efforts to educate Senegalese women about the harms of genital cutting. Here. Notice the approach she uses. She does not...
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Death
I “took” this Yale course a couple of years ago and found it fascinating, thoughtful, engaging, and edifying (or, I agreed with it!). You too can take it here. Shelly Kagan is superb. In fact this...
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Sunday’s Guest Sermon
From Infinite Power: Festival Theatre (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As I think about the interdependent web in which I live, I see the same elements, the many celebrations of life, the art of living....
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Sunday’s Sermon
The Storke Tower of UCSB – University of California, Santa Barbara. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I am re-posting this tribute from a few years ago. Forgive me while I weep for an old friend. Remembering...
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A hole in the neighbourhood
I went out to the driveway this morning to fetch The Globe and Mail – as I do most mornings. As I reached for the paper I glanced over at Muriel’s window next door – as I do most mornings. Muriel has...
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Happy Birthday, Son.
Fifty-five years ago today our first born son arrived on planet earth – more specifically in Orange, California. We got a deal on him since I was still in the Marine Corps – he cost just under $10. I...
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Happy Birthday, GB!
ERIK LANE MARCH 11, 1996 BLOCK B BIOGRAPHY: BOB LANE (GRANDFATHER) Bob Lane was born in Denver, Colorado on February 14, 1936. He was the fourth of five kids. He wasn’t born in a hospital because in...
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Sunday’s Sermon
Those readers who still go to church will relate to this opening: The readings for this morning are: A review of Glen Pettigrove, Forgiveness and Love, Oxford University Press, here. A review of...
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Death
I “took” this Yale course a couple of years ago and found it fascinating, thoughtful, engaging, and edifying (or, I agreed with it!). You too can take it here. Shelly Kagan is superb. In fact this...
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Response requested.
The Globe and Mail on Sunday published a Q&A interview: Helen Humphreys is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including The Reinvention of Love, Afterimage,...
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Sunday Sermon: LOVE
There is an interesting discussion evolving in the comments thread under the “Ten Tips…” post. Love is a problem. But ‘love‘ is really a problem. It has always been a problem in English! The problem?...
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Remembering Professor Stuurman
Remembering Stuurman “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust RUSSELL: Douwe Stuurman? HARDIN: Well, he’s one of a...
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