Touching some theological bases with Gerd Ludemann (Podcast)

10 Golden Words Podcast
I have linked with my Talkshoe account so expect podcasts with some regularity. They open after a pause automatically and while not loud you may want to pause them for any reason, and can do so in the normal way.
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New Tao Posts

New Tao Posts:

Though I have but six or seven posts up at this new blog, I am pretty happy with the concept. Take a look.

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Taste really is all in the mind in its very own gustotopic map.

New map shows where tastes are coded in the brain: "Each taste, from sweet to salty, is sensed by a unique set of neurons in the brains of mice, new research reveals. The findings demonstrate that neurons that respond to specific tastes are arranged discretely in what the scientists call a "gustotopic map." This is the first map that shows how taste is represented in the mammalian brain."

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A little truth about natural gas

S.E.C. Subpoenas Energy Companies for Records on Shale Gas Wells - NYTimes.com: "For example, the 2011 summer newsletter of the National Energy Technology Laboratory, a research arm of the Department of Energy, says that technology needs to improve in the Barnett shale in Texas, and in other shale gas areas, for these shale gas wells to be more economically viable. Shale gas wells often decline sharply after their first year ... “A crucial challenge for the industry today,” the newsletter said, is that only a “fraction” — a third or less — of wells show “sustained long-term production,” which makes it difficult for companies to make money on this drilling."

I am waiting for a ten year old genius to get us out of this oil and gas fixation. The current ads disgust with their complacency,

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Heartily recommend a dose of C. S. Peirce to all who do not acknowledge him

Heartily recommend a dose of C. S. Peirce to all who do not acknowledge him. Since things are evolutionary (continuity) and our theories are inevitably fallible (amendable), the draconian results of either too much or too little place for reason are eliminated. Indeed the realism of Peirce is a welcome liberation  from the straitjacket of feeling that reason is impotent to perform logical acts such as Peirce spent a lifetime considering. We are approaching the 100th year of his death. I rarely see him mentioned in academic indices. A good example is the work of Harold Bloom which suffers from a failure to make Peirce's acquaintance. Peirce belongs, to alter a Bloom saw, in the world canon.
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Fiction is whatever you want it to be

The Complete History of Adam Panflick: "Orlando was was eating shepherd’s bread and drinking Vernaccia Lido Del Sole, watching village boys kick a red ball back and forth on the beach. The sun was climbing gently over Monte Moro. Orlando thought to himself that there could never be a more pleasant day. (Not unlike my feeling in Manhattan on September 11 — a glorious morning — in the moments before the Towers went down.)"

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On watching a dumb patriotism TV ad

Jesus is the one who knew what it meant to serve. No further comment.

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