May 2010
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Panic God This is Jimmy Bakker and what the press love to describe as the “heavily mascaraed Tammy Faye”. Not just TV evangelicals brought to ground by a double complicity – Jerry Falwell’s will to money and Jimmy Schwaggart’s will to power – but Jimmy and Tammy as the first, and perhaps the best, practioners
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In the hypermodern era, identity goes public In the modern era, we were specialists, trapped in private identities. In the hypermodern era, identity goes public. It gets netted and webbed and digitally nested. Today, the hyperreal body, the’ hypermedia body, travels in exactly the way that McLuhan predicted: lighter than an astronaut, but at an
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În vechime, profetul Habacuc, acuzat de “indecenţa” publică a credinţei sale în Cel lepădat de majoritate şi înconjurat de dezastrul unui popor beat de păcate, striga din toată inima: Căci chiar dacă smochinul nu va înflori, viţa nu va da nici un rod, rodul măslinului va lipsi, şi câmpiile nu vor da hrană, oile vor
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FT.com (May 20, 2010) : “Craig Venter, the US genomics pioneer, announced on Thursday that scientists at his laboratories in Maryland and California had succeeded in their 15-year project to make the world’s first “synthetic cells” – bacteria called Mycoplasma mycoides“. We report the design, synthesis and assembly of the 1.08- Mbp Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0
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