Bronowski, Jacob, Science and Human Values, Harper and Row 1972 Jacket: 'A classic collection of essays on the theme of science as an integral part of the culture of our age, ... by Dr Bronowski, a renowned leader in the modern movement for scientific humanism.' First given as lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February and March 1953. 
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Lonergan, Bernard J F, Method in Theology, University of Toronto Press for Lonergan Research Institute 1996 Introduction: 'A theology mediates between a cultural matrix and the signifcance and role of religion in that matrix. ... When the classicist notion of culture prevails, theology is conceived as a permanent achievement, and then one discourses on its nature. When culture is conceived empirically, theology is known to be an ongoing process, and then one writes on its method. Method ... is a framework for collaborative creativity.' 
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Marr, David, Patrick White: A Life, Knopf 1992 Editorial review from Library Journal : 'From Library Journal An admirably readable biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author of Voss , The Tree of Man , and many other books, this work is full of detail on White's family and prosperous background, the events and people in his life, his writing habits, his religious beliefs, his cantankerousness and temper, his causes and doubts, his attraction to the theater, and much more. White helped Marr gain access to people and material, even authorizing him to collect his letters, "the backbone of this book." Marr deals intelligently with important issues (among them, White's rootedness in and dissatisfaction with Australia, his sense of himself as an outsider, his relation to his mother, and, in particular his homosexuality, which White considered central to his novelistic and theatrical ability), avoiding psychoanalytical speculations and other intrusions. White reviewed the book shortly before he died, finding it "so painful he often found himself reading through tears. He did not ask Marr to change a line."' Richard Kuczkowski Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. 
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Mishra, Pankaj, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012 'George Bush famously asked after 9/11, "why do they hate us"? This book answers that question and answers it brillantly, with passion and overwhelming examples of the human carnage inflicted by western imperialism throughout Asia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. If you want to truly understand why the world is in its current state this book is essential. It will forever change your understanding of history and of your country's place in the world. A great work of history.' C Bohl 
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Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe, Oxford University Press, 1998 'In Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819. With the secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight Ivanhoe, Scott confronts his splendid and tumultuous romance, featuring the tournament at Ashby-de- a-Zouche, the siege of Torquilstone, and the clash of wills between the wicked Templar Bois-Guilbert and the sublime Rebecca. Based on the 1830 text of Ivanhoe, this is the first edition to make corrections against Scott's working materials and incorporates readings from Scott's own manuscript.' 
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Souder, William, On Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Crown 2012 'Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor had won a Nobel Prize for its discovery. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife. Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and its effects, which were lasting, widespread, and lethal. Published in 1962, Silent Spring shocked the public and forced the government to take action-despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. The book awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the EPA and to the banning of DDT and a host of related pesticides. By drawing frightening parallels between dangerous chemicals and the then-pervasive fallout from nuclear testing, Carson opened a fault line between the gentle ideal of conservation and the more urgent new concept of environmentalism. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, On a Farther Shore reveals a shy yet passionate woman more at home in the natural world than in the literary one that embraced her. William Souder also writes sensitively of Carson's romantic friendship with Dorothy Freeman, and of her death from cancer in 1964. This extraordinary new biography captures the essence of one of the great reformers of the twentieth century. ' 
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Adrienne Stone, Four fundamental principles for upholding freedom of speech on campus, ' One thing to consider is there is no context in which freedom of speech constitutes an absolute right to say anything at all. All serious thinkers about freedom of speech and all legal systems - even the US, which has the strongest protection of free speech in the world - recognise some limits on freedom of speech. The difficult question is where those limits properly lie.' back

Alison Flood, Anna Burns wins Man Booker prize for 'incredibly original' Milkman, ' The experimental novel, Burns’ third, is narrated by an unnamed 18-year-old girl, known as “middle sister”, who is being pursued by a much older paramilitary figure, the milkman. It is “incredibly original”, according to the Booker’s chair of judges, the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. “None of us has ever read anything like this before,” said Appiah, announcing the win at a dinner at London’s Guildhall. “Anna Burns’ utterly distinctive voice challenges conventional thinking and form in surprising and immersive prose. It is a story of brutality, sexual encroachment and resistance threaded with mordant humour.” ' back

Anarchy - Wikipedia, Anarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Anarchy has more than one definition. In the United States, the term "anarchy" typically is used to refer to a society without a publicly enforced government or violently enforced political authority. When used in this sense, anarchy may or may not be intended to imply political disorder or lawlessness within a society. Outside of the US, and by most individuals that self-identify as anarchists, it implies a system of governance, mostly theoretical at a nation state level although there are a few successful historical examples, that goes to lengths to avoid the use of coercion, violence, force and authority, while still producing a productive and desirable society.' back

Elephant Song (film) - Wikipedia, Elephant Song (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Elephant Song is a 2014 Canadian drama film directed by Charles Binamé and adapted from the same titled stage play by Nicolas Billon. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.' back

Emily Baumgaertner, Watch This Blob of Cells Become an Embryo in High Resolution, 'When the video above starts, this wiggling, glowing blue blob seen under a new high-resolution microscope doesn’t look like much. But in just 26 seconds you and I can watch the blob’s tiny cells multiply, interact and organize into the first organ systems of a living mouse embryo.' back

Extraterritoriality - Wikipedia, Extraterritoriality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Extraterritoriality is the state of being exempt from the jurisdiction of local law, usually as the result of diplomatic negotiations. Extraterritoriality can also be applied to physical places, such as military bases of foreign countries, or offices of the United Nations. The three most common cases recognized today internationally relate to the persons and belongings of foreign heads of state, the persons and belongings of ambassadors and certain other diplomatic agents, and ships in foreign waters.' back

Glenn Greenwald, Mental Health Professionals Denounce CNNand Don Lemon;s Show for Mocking fnad Stigmatizing Kanye West;e Hospitalization, ' On Monday night, CNN host Don Lemon led a panel discussion with three CNN commentators as they gleefully heaped scorn on Kanye West for meeting with President Trump to discuss prison reform and for otherwise expressing support for the President. Among other things, West was pilloried for being both ignorant and exploited. “Kanye West is what happens when Negroes don’t read,” CNN’s Bakari Sellers said. CNN’s Tara Setmayer pronounced him “the token Negro of the Trump administration.” ' back

Hamad Dabashi, An American and an Arab journalist walk into a Saudi Consulate, 'An American and an Arab journalist walk into a Saudi consulate, Thomas Friedman in New York and Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. One comes out smiling ear to ear like Lawrence of Arabia packing for a royal palace near Riyadh and the other disappears into the thin air and widely feared to have been rushed to meet his creator in more than one piece.' back

John Gehrig, Business Class: A High-Priced Conference at Catholic University, 'Catholic University’s business school has benefited from more than $14 million from the Charles Koch Foundation over the past five years, a curious wellspring of resources given that the Kochs’ vast conservative political networks and front-groups promote libertarian policy goals that stand in contrast to traditional Catholic social teaching on labor, the role of government, and the environment. back

John Motyka, Mary Midgely, 99, Moral Philosopher for the General Reader, Is Dead , ' Mary Midgley, a leading British moral philosopher who became an accessible, persistent and sometimes witty critic of the view that modern science should be the sole arbiter of reality, died on Wednesday, less than three weeks after her last book was published, in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne. She was 99.' back

Mark, Mark 16:15, 'New International Version (©1984) He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.' back

Murtaza Hussain, Why Israel's -- And America's -- Legal Jutifications for Assassination's Don't Add Up, ' The expansion of legal rules around targeted killings by the United States is one of the most consequential legacies of the post-9/11 era. Under both the Bush and Obama administrations, the U.S. government arrogated itself broad rights to kill individuals far from any battlefield. The expansion of legal rules around targeted killings by the United States is one of the most consequential legacies of the post-9/11 era. Under both the Bush and Obama administrations, the U.S. government arrogated itself broad rights to kill individuals far from any battlefield.' back

Pan's Labyrinth - Wikipedia, Pan's Labyrinth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopdia, ' Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish: El laberinto del fauno, lit. 'The Labyrinth of the Faun') is a 2006 Mexican/Spanish dark fantasy drama film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. It was produced and distributed internationally by Esperanto Filmoj and Warner Bros., while Picturehouse handled US distribution rights.' back

Paul Karp and Gareth Hutchins, Neoliberalism has caused 'misery and division', Bernie Fraser says, ' Evidence in Australia and overseas shows the influence of neoliberalism on fiscal policy “and the misery and social polarisation that has come with it”, he says. The global financial crisis “should have” marked a tipping point, when the “idealised view of financial markets being self-regulating” was shattered. While Australia “avoided the worst traumas of the GFC” with prompt fiscal and monetary policy responses, in Europe “taxes were increased and spending programs slashed”, resulting in a further five or six years of severe recession.' back

Paul Mzur, A Genocde Inctd on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar's iitary, 'NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — They posed as fans of pop stars and national heroes as they flooded Facebook with their hatred. One said Islam was a global threat to Buddhism. Another shared a false story about the rape of a Buddhist woman by a Muslim man. The Facebook posts were not from everyday internet users. Instead, they were from Myanmar military personnel who turned the social network into a tool for ethnic cleansing, according to former military officials, researchers and civilian officials in the country.' back

Sol Invictus - Wikipedia, Sol Invictus - Wikipedia, the feee encyclopedia, 'Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun") was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire and a patron of soldiers. In 274 the Roman emperor Aurelian made it an official cult alongside the traditional Roman cults. Scholars disagree whether the new deity was a refoundation of the ancient Latin cult of Sol,[1] a revival of the cult of Elagabalus[2] or completely new.[3] The god was favored by emperors after Aurelian and appeared on their coins until Constantine.[4] The last inscription referring to Sol Invictus dates to 387 AD[5] and there were enough devotees in the 5th century that Augustine found it necessary to preach against them.' back

Thomas L. Friedman, America's Dilemma: Censuring M.B.S. and Not Halting Saudi Reform, ' But you can’t fix stupid. And when your ally does something as sick and as stupid as the Saudis apparently did in Istanbul, there is just no easy fix. But Trump might start by appointing an ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He has never had one — and it shows.' back

Vatican, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 'Goals
– Promoting the progress of the mathematical, physical and natural sciences, and the study of related epistemological questions and issues – Recognising excellence in science – Stimulating an interdisciplinary approach to scientific knowledge – Encouraging international interaction – Furthering participation in the benefits of science and technology by the greatest number of people and peoples – Promoting education and the public’s understanding of science – Ensuring that science works to advance of the human and moral dimension of man – Achieving a role for science which involves the promotion of justice, development, solidarity, peace, and the resolution of conflict – Fostering interaction between faith and reason and encouraging dialogue between science and spiritual, cultural, philosophical and religious values – Providing authoritative advice on scientific and technological matters – Cooperating with the members of other Academies in a friendly spirit to promote such objectives.' back

Wenday Galietta, See the bi winnes of Nikon's microphoto competition, ' At times it may be easy to see the beauty of the natural world with only the naked eye. Participants in the 2018 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition know that advanced imaging and microscope technologies help to lend more clarity and reveal the unexpected beauty of the world around us. First place was awarded to photographer Yousef Al Habshi for his image that captures part of the compound eyes and bright-greenish scales of the Asian red palm weevil. This beetle is very small at less than half an inch in size and is found in the Philippines.' back