OBRA MAESTRA

Albert Schweitzer

In the perspective of A parliamentary election held in Iraq on 7 March 2010 and the Oscars 2010 best original screenplay for the  movie “The Hurt Locker” (which gives a perspective of the Iraq war)
Here is a comment I made back in 2007 on Mark Joyner’s
blog post:
March 13, 2007
Dear Bill O’Reilly (About The [...]

Michael Sandel
“Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history”
Copyrights: WGBH Boston and Harvard University

“Sandel has opened up an important area of debate at a time when some of the unquestioned assumptions underlying economic policy and praxis of the last few decades have been exposed as fraudulent and are being questioned. What happens [...]

09/10/2009
NEWS
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
awarded to:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA…

“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”

Photo: Pete Souza, Obama-Biden Transition Project, licensed by Attribution Share Alike 3.0

Barack Obama

USA

44th President of the United States of America

b. 1961

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that [...]

Jimmy Carter via last.fm

Discrimination and abuse wrongly backed by doctrine are damaging society, argues the former US president.
o Jimmy Carter
o CopyrightThe Observer, Sunday 12 July 2009
[...]

A Tribute to My Friend, Michael Jackson by Dr. Deepak Chopra (En Français plus bas, dedicated to “a loving soul” Grace) Michael Jackson will be remembered, most likely, as a shattered icon, a pop genius who wound up a mutant of fame. That’s not who I will remember, however. His mixture [...]

In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies that seek to quantify the historical ebb and flow of violence point to exactly that conclusion.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
by Steven Pinker
Introduction
Once [...]

© CNN -December 27, 2007 -(AP)
– The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor’s living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches.
And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Florida, area pledged $500 a year to Joyce [...]

The first of Buddha’s Four Noble Truths:
“Life is Difficulty”

Einstein sought in science what artists seek in art.
Einstein attempted to escape from the gloominess and terrors of society by connecting with the whole universe.
Einstein wanted sense and beauty in the physical world.
“God does not play dice with the Universe.”
He hoped to find a hidden [...]

I am extending to you my reader this timeless message…
Jan 1st. 2008
From my Friend: Linda Forsythe from Mentors Magazine

“The following was written by my friend Susie and I’d like to pass this gift on to you, because you are living a life that matters…
What Will Matter
Ready or not, some day it will all come [...]

Drawing on autobiographical accounts from the time of Charles Darwin to the present, this lecture seeks to illuminate the private world in which scientists and laypersons alike have experienced the implications of creation and evolution.
by Ronald L. Numbers*
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=7192 *
Ronald L. Numbers (born 1942) is an American historian of science who received his Ph.D. in [...]