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Film Review: Earth

By James Zimmerman Earth, 96 minutes, released April 22, 2009Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield Disney attempts to recapture the success of their 1950s series True-life Adventures (their collection of multi-Oscar winning nature documentaries) with the release of Earth. Earth is the first in a line of proposed projects Read more

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Losing Miller’s God

By August Berkshire On April 8, 2009, I went to the College of St. Catherine, a Roman Catholic university in St. Paul, to attend a presentation by evolutionary biologist Kenneth R. Miller. The lecture was entitled “Finding Darwin’s God,” after his book by the same name, which came out about Read more

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Rota Fortunae

by George Kane I have a new job with a financial services company that provides a lot of training that I have to attend. One recent training session dealt with theoretical mechanics of the market system. As you might expect in a business-training session, the presentation was freighted with assumptions, Read more