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...When religious institutions exclude women from their hierarchies and rituals, the inevitable implication is that females are inferior ... Religious groups should stand up for a simple ethical principle: any person's human rights should be sacred, and not depend on something as earthly as their genitals...
Following its announcement that China-based hackers had targeted the Gmail accounts of Chinese human-rights activists, Google is rethinking its strategy in China, where Internet access is closely circumscribed. The company, whose credo is "Don't be evil," said it will no longer censor results on its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, and may stop operating in the Chinese market altogether...
...Creation is based on a book called Annie's Box (published in the U.S. as Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution), written by one of Darwin's descendants, Randal Keynes, and inspired by a box of keepsakes from Annie's short life, items carefully set aside by her parents, which Keynes found in the family archives. Darwin and his wife Emma (played by Jennifer Connelly, Bettany's offscreen wife) had 10 children in all. Several of them are featured in the film, though you'd be hard-pressed to identify them as anything beyond Neglected Son No. 1, Neglected...
...there any aspect of human experience that you don't think science can touch? Oh, absolutely. What happens after permanent death - after we're no longer able to interview people - is an absolute. To that extent, the work I do may always require some element of faith. But by the time you look at [the] evidence, the amount of faith you need to have [to believe in] life after death is substantially reduced...
...grad students, we get more experience grading as TFs. I wanted some teaching experience,” says Bridget A. Alex, a Human Evolutionary Biology graduate student who taught a mini-course on prehistoric history for the inaugural program...