Articles in English
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“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with little hobbies and…
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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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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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Britain’s got talent! I am amazed by the complex diversity of british intelectual heritage. In matter of faith, we have extraordinary opposites: Chesterton and C. S. Lewis on one side, B. Shaw and B. Russell on the other side. I saw this paradox when I spent two months in London (2008). In the heart of…
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