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Archive for October, 2008
30 Oct
Doppelgänger
EVER MET YOUR DOPPELGÄNGER? I met mine—twice.
Dictionaries define a doppelgänger variously as:
An evil twin
A double of a living person
A person who has the same name as another
Now, most of us have an accurate fix on what we look like—we see the same face and body in the mirror on a regular basis. We have seen [...]
29 Oct
Life on Fast Forward
YOU HAVE ONLY A HALF-HOUR lunch break, and you’re washing down a protein bar with an energy drink as you push through maddeningly slow city traffic on your way to have your metal-on-metal brakes checked at the repair shop down the street.
Let’s see, now—you have a committee meeting at 1 p.m., a blizzard of [...]
19 Oct
The Ultimate Botanist
SOMETIMES IT’S JUST A SMALL news item tucked away pages deep in a newspaper—or in some remote corner of the Internet—that gets me thinking about God. Case in point:
“Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that when the leaf of a plant is under attack by a pathogen, it can send out an S.O.S. [...]
4 Oct
Two Wolves
AN ELDERLY CHEROKEE Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them…
“A fight is going on inside me…it is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.
The other [...]
4 Oct
Perspective
AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER, each of us has a moment when we think we’re pretty “big stuff” and get rather full of ourselves. But let’s just do a reality check, facilitated by the following impressive series of photos:
Well, at least if we’re just a tiny speck on Earth, at least Earth is a big [...]
