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...could be just a passing truck and nothing to lose precious sleep over. Delineating how we react to an earthquake is just one example of the cognitive imperative described in Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, British scientist Lewis Wolpert's enquiry into the evolutionary origins of belief. If the theme sounds familiar, that's because the search for scientific roots of religious faith is a hot, and heatedly debated, issue of the day. In his 2004 book The God Gene, U.S. molecular biologist Dean Hamer claimed to have located one of the genes he said was responsible for spirituality. Last...
...arguments that is regularly advanced to justify hiring illegal workers is that they are merely doing jobs American workers won't take. President Bush echoed the theme earlier this year when he proposed the immigration-law changes that would allow millions of illegals to live and work in the U.S.: "I put forth what I think is a very reasonable proposal, and a humane proposal, one that is not amnesty, but, in fact, recognizes that there are good, honorable, hardworking people here doing jobs Americans...
...what the ordinary Indian calls the real world. Iona Sharma Formby, England Suffering for Society "Place your bets" [Feb. 27] predicted that the movie Brokeback Mountain would win the Academy Award for Best Picture, but the Oscar went to Crash. Brokeback may have lost because of its homosexual theme, but it has a story that everyone can relate to. We fear failure, and society dictates our behavior. In Brokeback Mountain, we see two worlds: the open, exuberant, vivid natural setting, suggesting what life could be like; and the cramped, suffocating, dark domestic world inhabited by Ennis and Jack, what their...
...there's also a subtle unifying theme here: how people deal with consistently terrible personal choices and precipitously dumb luck. When the film works, this busy ensemble piece succeeds because it is as much about laughing at misfits messing up as it is about hoping they can keep their acts together...
...vast ignorance about the workings of life is not a popular theme in our media. Experts, and the people who write or talk about them, are paid for their knowledge and ability to communicate it,not for being awed by the vast complexity of the machinery of life or shocked by our ignorance of its most basic parts. But I, for one, am amazed that we're here at all. Look at the night sky - absolute zero of space, 200 million degrees of stars - that's what the great, great bulk of the universe is like. Not too conducive...