Graham Phillips explains the real reason for the crucifixion of Jesus. You will never have heard a deeper and more enlightening description of this event, and his retelling of the life of Christ is even MORE remarkable than the version in the gospels.
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What is it like to live inside the body of the special kind of genius known as the autistic savant (once know as idiot savants)? These are people whom scientists think are brain damaged in the womb. One part of the brain, the part that controls social interactions, ends up underdeveloped and to compensate, the other part, that controls mathematics, music or art, for instance, over develops in order to compensate. This is why there are people who socially retarded but able to instantly tell you the day on which something happened, when you give them the date. The novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” is written from the point of view of such a savant?now one of them explains how he does it.
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Anne is back with Chapter Two of her diet book, What I Learned From the Fat Years. Besides a lot of humor, there’s real science behind every sentence, so don’t miss this new installment! You can still read Chapter One, if you missed it.
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In the October 4 issue of the New York Times, Kenneth Chang reports that quicksand, the lethal substance that sucks unlucky movie heroes down to their death, is made out of the ordinary ingredients water, sand, salt and clay. If you happen to step in quicksand, will it be the end of you?
Researcher Daniel Bonn analyzed this substance and reported on it in a recent issue of the prestigious journal Nature. Bonn, who lives in Amsterdam, became interested in quicksand when he was in Iran a few years ago and saw signs warning about it. He collected samples and took them home to analyze.
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