OBRA MAESTRA

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 [...]