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...nce. The claim that the error rate in matching prints is zero has never been proven scientifically. Latent prints lifted off crime scenes with th... ...nds of chemicals are used in the process, some of them highly toxic. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BD05C- D352-1C6A-... ... instance, mate with all the females in their territory. Examples of polygamous societies include the Kikuyu, Masai and Oromo in east Africa; Sw... .../species.fws.gov/bio_salm.html http://www.psc.org/Pubs/Frp98-webb.pdf Senses Scientifically speaking, onions, apples and potatoes share the s... ...a dead giant squid caught by fishermen in his tub. The specimen was described in a scientific monograph written by Professor Addison Verrill of Yal... ...ilt in the 20th century - follows precisely the route of a canal he envisioned. His scientific investigations - in anatomy, hydraulics, mechanics, o... ...eebooks.html "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balka... ..._JOURNAL 10. "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balka...

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...n the sciences, holds an MS in bio-cybernetics, and has pursued a successful scientific career, later turning to Kabbalah to further his scientific... ...very society that has survived has possessed it. Only Western and westernized societies have forgotten it. In the process of creating technical and ... ...en about their knowledge, and at the same time, very much involved with their societies. Often, Kabbalists were their nation’s leaders. Of all these... ... Kabbalist who was also a great leader. The involvement of Kabbalists in their societies helped their contemporary scholars develop the basis of wha... ...eople began to place themselves in op- position to their environment and their societies, they no longer related to others as kin and to Nature as ho... ...harm than they already have. Therefore, it would be grossly na- ive to expect scientific advancement to keep its promise of a good life. If we want ... ...o have already connected with spirituality in the same way we use our current scientific knowledge. Kabbalists, who have already made it to the spir... ...y your relationship with others and the world around you. Using language both scientific and poetic, he probes the most profound questions of spirit... ...e footsteps of his mentor in leading the group toward its mission. Laitman’s scientific method provides individuals of all faiths, religions, and c...

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...low me to research the meaning of life. I felt that studying Nature through a scientific lens would help me find the answer. This is why I began to ... ...on to our problems. In the last 100 years or so, we have made a giant leap in scientific and technological progress, and yet we find ourselves helpl... ...st ap- peared during the Renaissance and continued through the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions, and into the present day. The growth of the En... ...so do- ing contribute to the health of the animals in the area. Thus, the more scientific research progresses, the more it reveals that all parts of ... ...AMONG ANIMALS The animal world presents some spectacular examples of communal societies where each element works to benefit the whole. Such societie... ...emselves to save a member that’s been captured by a predator. INTERDEPENDENCY Scientific research has found numerous examples of inter- dependency. O... ...we become richer. As we earn more, we compare ourselves to richer and richer societies. Thus, the only way we can determine our happi- ness or unhap... ...e greater part. In fact, we are chained by the manners and preferences of our societies, which have become our norms of behavior. Gaining society’s ...

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...if deduced from other statements, at least one of which is a statement of a general scientific law. This is the "Covering Law Model" and it implie... ...vironmentalism which has developed proto-fascist tendencies and is gradually being scientifically debunked. The proponents of deep ecology radicali... ... At a less fundamental level, however, the need for intersubjective verification of scientific hypotheses has been long recognized". (Page 414). 2.... ...ce and, sometimes in time. No matter how imaginative and creative our literary and scientific endeavours, we are unable to convincingly describe a ... ...ife forms occupy space and time and can be pinpointed to a reasonable degree using scientific instrumentation or human sense organs. Yet, locatio... ... but would vary profoundly in different cultures and between groups within complex societies; a crucial factor would be the nature of the communica... ...ot earth would be inspired to an all-out space effort by such a discovery is moot: societies sure of their own place in the universe have disintegr...

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...ves, there are boundaries beyond which it cannot penetrate. For instance, scientific tools cannot measure the human soul, or the basic motivation fo... ...ion of the spiritual knowledge. Using the Ari’s method, anyone in today’s scientific age can achieve what only a chosen few could achieve before. Cu... ...sm, the more we will understand what needs to be changed in us and in our societies. By doing so, we will be able to de-escalate the crisis and brin... ...e who are connected to spirituality in the same way we have been applying scientific knowledge to cope with problems on the physical levels of desir... ...ng to obstruct the social order to promote building spiritually oriented societies. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Yehuda Ashlag explai... ...e social creatures. In other words, we don’t have a choice but to live in societies, as we are offshoots of one common soul. Thus, it is clear that ... ...appoint its own members one way or another. Eventually, all egoism-based societies will exhaust themselves along with the egoism Kabbalists describ... ...develop a sense of the surrounding space and research it using a strictly scientific method. on the other hand, Kabbalah differs from all other natu... ...our relationship with others and the world around you. Using language both scientific and poetic, he probes the most profound questions of spirituali...

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...ext, and to one hundred thousand more. An idea that is philosophically or scientifically valid produces a field of energy, on the level of thought,... ... our history are of four types: mythological, religious, philosophical and scientific. Generally these cosmologies were created independently from o... ... value. But by the same token, it would not be of much value if only these scientific approaches were utilized and others were ignored. Here we wa... ...d by looking at only one type of data, be it religious or philosophical or scientific, produces a view that is fallible. This is the case because it... ... daring new hypotheses and as dialectical departure points, not givens. Scientific discoveries are the fruit of hypotheses and of research that co... ...rtain myths that instead mean nothing to others. We only know that entire societies and religions are formed around myths, and the rites created ar...

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... life?” burns in the heart of every one of them. All of them seek a clear and scientific answer they can comprehend. Therefore, I have decided to ga... ... is also the very purpose of creation because attaining the Creator, unlike a scientific pro- cess, is the gratification and satisfaction given by th... ...armony and relationships, and learn how to use it wisely. Today, however, all scientific and technical discoveries bring harm to man, since they onl... .... Why? There is no rational answer. These laws are not even rational. From a scientific or physiological perspective there is no justification to t... ...s and more than 2000 pages that depict the laws of the system of creation in scientific terms. When we study them, we receive a special illumina- ti... ... writes that the group must form the basis for the future society. Today such societies can be established on a small scale and the Creator rewards ...

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...nd finally to death. It is very depressing to hear that even after so much of scientific advancement a man suffers with a disease for a year and th... ...ave taken up the cause to fight the discrimation against HIV/AIDS that too in societies like ours where widowhood is a large stigma. This brave woma... ....P. and Holemes, K. K. (1991) Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the AIDS Era. Scientific American, No. 264, 62-69. 291 7. Armstrong, S. (1994) C...

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...m the west. Everything that I will write henceforth will be from a purely scientific perspective, in utter precision, and by means of simple recogni... ... science has thus far contrived in the concepts of “body” and “soul.” ThE SCiEnTifiC mEAning of b ody And SoUl A CCording To oUr holy TorAh Now I s... ... “a holy nation,” he was told, “no more.” 261 Th e Pe a C e An empirical, scientific research about the necessity of the work of God “The wolf also s... ...inquire whether this work is acceptable to us by faith alone, without any scientific, empirical basis, or whether we also have an empirical basis for... ...s surrounding our sustenance and existence also multiply. Thus you have a scientific, empirical basis that His Providence has commanded us to keep w... ...is the prohibition of the seat of the scornful. Our sages said about such societies, “Disperse the wicked; better for them and better for the world....

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... give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ?Scientific Revolution.? -- 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise-Smoke and the acrid smell of hot lead in the back shop blend with the clickety-clack of a gang of wondrous Linotypes in full cry. Then suddenly, they’re gone. -- 21. Th...

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...nly to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-education lead to a ―Scientific Revolution.‖ 20. Linotype‘s Digital Demise Smoke and the ... ... long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical prob... ...brain‘s technology. Prehistoric nomadic herding, hunting, and gathering societies had, of course, devised primitive, nonverbal mnemonic methods. ... ...n learned that their memories could not handle the recordkeeping agrarian societies demanded. So they translated spoken words into symbol-shape writ... ...nd matching that are so critical to developing logical, mathematical, and scientific thinking. How phonetic writing came into being Pictographic... ...berg‘s print technology did the following:  Opened paths to political, scientific, and industrial revolutions.  Formed the basis of every moder... ... force in the early 1880s worked on farms, but a new era of machinery and scientific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. ... ...Co., 2002. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1998. Durant, William and A...

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...hicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had its own composing room with experienced typesetters who were required to set complex scientific material as well as work in such then-exotic fonts as Hebrew and Ethiopic. Professors brought their handwritten manuscripts directly to the compositors, who did their best to decipher them. The compositors then pas...

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...lied to a specific institution, except to avoid ambiguity : young people's societies, the high school at Lemont, local typographical unions; the cl... ... Peoples." 40. In zoological, botanical, and similar technical matter, the scientific (Latin) names of divisions, orders, families, and genera (the... ...I (owing to a misunderstanding, the announcement did not reach the English societies in time to secure a full quota from that country. Sir Henry Ca... ...tion of, in titles of publications, 37; definition of, 37. Proceedings (of societies), titles of: capi- talization of principal words in, 37; to b... ... of, 244. Span* titles of publications, use of capi- tals m, 37. Species, scientific names of: use of capi- tals in, 40; of italics, 40. Specimen... ...nted m separate vol%me 51. of poems, short, 71 (d. 5a); o!'pro&ed- lugs of societies, $a; of senes, 70; of tracts, 51; of transactions of societies... ...alization of prin- apal words m, 37; to be italiazed, 52. Transactions (of societies), titles of: capi- talization of inapal words in, 37; to be i...

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...ther than hunters and gatherers, and in doing so to settle into communities. From these earliest settlements have developed the elaborate and complex societies of today. During all these millennia, we have tended to take agriculture for granted. This is unfortunate, and unfair by all those - farm men and women in the fields, scientists in their laboratories, and policy mak...

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...R PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AN...

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... 12 ―But in the last hundred years psychology has attempted to clear up the muddle through a scient... ...eed pulls down the necessary bulwarks of the culture--family, religion, and a dynamic purpose. Then they fall and are replaced by new dynamic societ... ...st react away from their old beliefs? 28 ―When people reject the scient... ...eful. He is moving toward perfection in a socially useful path. ―The major criticism of Adler‘s ideas is that they are not sufficiently scient... ...male grape pickers— would the number of breast cancer cases have been the same? What if we took 37,000 Chinese nurses? The problem in seeking scient... ...ER OVER ―You mentioned the more primitive use of power to overcome inferiorities. It is obvious that ‗power over‘ is common in all societ... ...s and less a factor in our behavior. And I‘ve noticed that xenophobia, the fear of others who are different, infects every society—even those societ... ...ed the place of women in our society. In the past many people have felt trapped by the gender traits which have been assigned to them by their societ... ... there are masculine traits and feminine traits, which are quite different, is a cultural fabrication which can no longer be supported by the scient...

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...ut smallholder dairying. This volume covers the breadth of smallholder dairying with a mix of the practical aspects of interest to farmers and the scientific information needed by professionals interested in international development of smallholder dairying. It serves the needs of teachers and academics, advisors to the next generation of smallholder dairy farmers, scie...

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... Studies with lactating cows/buffalo Constraints to application of the bypass protein technology Practical application of bypass protein in village societies Treatment of crop residues to improve digestibility Economic considerations Sociological considerations Research needs Increasing milk production following optimisation of the efficiency of utilisation of the b...

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...novel playing several generations into the future. After the human race has invented hyperspace flight, thousands of planets are colonised. Those new societies maintain their independence until the human race encounters an alien civilisation that also masters space flight and hyperspace travel. Being so very different from the human race, those aliens are at first not even...

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...lax, enjoy the status, live through the good sides of the military life. There, the 5th company had been posted to defend a densely populated planet. Scientific institutions were there, laboratories, industries important for the war. It had been assumed that the enemy might not want to nuke them out but could try to get the information contained in them. Thus, space grunts...

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...lax, enjoy the status, live through the good sides of the military life. There, the 5th company had been posted to defend a densely populated planet. Scientific institutions were there, laboratories, industries important for the war. It had been assumed that the enemy might not want to nuke them out but could try to get the information contained in them. Thus, space grunts...

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...nforming to social edicts and mores does not guarantee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Sta... ... success or failure of treatment modalities. This form of "reverse engineering" of scientific models is not unknown in other fields of science, nor... ...lds of science, nor is it unacceptable if the experiments meet the criteria of the scientific method. The theory must be all-inclusive (anamnetic),... ...rical, they should be invariant both temporally and spatially, across cultures and societies. This, to some degree, is, indeed, the case. Psycholog... ...fined. There isn't - and, in principle, can never emerge - an "objective", medical, scientific test to determine mental health or disease unequivoca... ...ion or none. This diagnostic heterogeneity (great variance) is unacceptable and non-scientific. In another article we deal with the five diagnostic... ...gmental coinage "moral insanity" and sought to replace it with something a bit more scientific. Maudsley bitterly criticized the ambiguous term "mo... ...scientific theories are creatures of their times, children of the civilizations and societies in which they were conceived, context-dependent and c... ...aily inputs – we should find a difference between dreamers and dreams in different societies and cultures. The more "information heavy" the culture...

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...ary? III. Theodicy: The Problem of Evil IV. Miracles, Wonders, Signs V. Appendix: Scientific Theories The Author PHYSI... ...ochs, people used myths and religious narratives to encode all knowledge, even of a scientific and technological character. Words and sentences are ... ...istics other than its very existence. And yet, whenever we direct the microscope of scientific discipline at the world, we encounter quantized, seg... ...tion to transformation or action are what made the continuum such a useful tool in scientific thought. Paradoxically, the very theory that introduc... ...trings are the dual equivalent of weakly interacting five-branes (solitons) (Duff, Scientific American, February 1998). Later, a duality between so... ...scientific theories are creatures of their times, children of the civilizations and societies in which they were conceived, context-dependent and c...

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...urvival utility in early evolution, but it seems to have lost a lot of it in modern societies. Actually, in most cases it is counterproductive, even... ...ayer by embracing its Arab neighbors and by championing the causes of economic and scientific development, integration, and opposition to outside i... ...pattern of brain activity in situ and the aforementioned pain. In other words, the scientific claim is that the patterns of brain activity ARE the ... ...ence uses metaphors (e.g., particles and waves). Metaphors have proven to be useful scientific tools in the "thinking scientist's" kit. As these met... ... A metaphor is also subject to logical and aesthetic rules and to the rigors of the scientific method. If the software metaphor is correct, the brai... ...China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nation-state and tribal societies, members of the family were encouraged to eat specific... ...ouraged cannibalism rather than make it a taboo. Human flesh is protein-rich. Most societies, past and present (with the exception of the industria... ...masters and slaves and so on. The "argument from abuse" has been raised with every scientific advance - from in vitro fertilization to space travel... ...ealings must be made to feel that they are real and effective stakeholders in their societies. A process of public debate coupled with transparency...

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...urvival utility in early evolution, but it seems to have lost a lot of it in modern societies. Actually, in most cases it is counterproductive, even... ...ayer by embracing its Arab neighbors and by championing the causes of economic and scientific development, integration, and opposition to outside i... ...pattern of brain activity in situ and the aforementioned pain. In other words, the scientific claim is that the patterns of brain activity ARE the ... ...ence uses metaphors (e.g., particles and waves). Metaphors have proven to be useful scientific tools in the "thinking scientist's" kit. As these met... ... A metaphor is also subject to logical and aesthetic rules and to the rigors of the scientific method. If the software metaphor is correct, the brai... ...China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nation-state and tribal societies, members of the family were encouraged to eat specific... ...ouraged cannibalism rather than make it a taboo. Human flesh is protein-rich. Most societies, past and present (with the exception of the industria... ...masters and slaves and so on. The "argument from abuse" has been raised with every scientific advance - from in vitro fertilization to space travel... ...ealings must be made to feel that they are real and effective stakeholders in their societies. A process of public debate coupled with transparency...