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2018年3月のブログ記事

  • Suicide bombers

    The God Delusion written by Richard Dawkins を読んでいます。 Suicide bombers do what they do because they really believe what they were taught in their relig... 続きをみる

  • stewed

    Reader's Digest三月号の記事 'THE DRIVE OF HIS LIFE, a cabbie, his kidknapper, and the unlikely conncection that redeemed them' からの引用です。 Ma was ... 続きをみる

  • pica

    Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 'Is This Normal or Nuts?' からの引用です。 The disire to eat nonfood items, including sand, coffee grounds, matches, and m... 続きをみる

  • tine

    Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 'Clever Substitutes For Everyday Kitchen Gadgets' からの引用です。 You Need: A Whisk Sub In: Two Forks A whisk introduces ... 続きをみる

  • writ small

    The God Delusion written by Richard Dawkins を読んでいます。 In India at the time of partition, more than a million people were massacred in religious riots ... 続きをみる

  • An elderly gentleman approaching from the other side.

    Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 'Your True Stories' からの引用です。 Three weeks after my total knee replacement, I had my first outpatient visit with the... 続きをみる

  • ley lines

    The God Delusion written by Richard Dawkins を読んでいます。 Despite my dislike of gladiatorial contests, I seem somehow to have acquired a reputation for pu... 続きをみる

  • morning joe

    Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 '10 Ways to Make Your Vitamins Work Better' からの引用です。 Caffeine in your morning joe may interfere with the absorptio... 続きをみる

  • out of the blue

    Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 'Laughter the Best Medicine' からの引用です。 I JUST GOT DIAGNOSED as color-blind! I didn't expect that--it came strai... 続きをみる

  • I am a Pollyanna

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 Do we really need policing - whether by God or by each other - in order to stop us from behaving in a selfis... 続きをみる

  • regurgitated blood

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 In humans, IOUs and money are devices that permit delays in the transactions. The parties to the trade don&#... 続きをみる

  • drunken man is happier than a sober one

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 There is a little evidence that religious belief protects people from stress-related diseases. The evidence ... 続きをみる

  • Love of Possession

    Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 'Laughter the Best Medicine' からの引用です。 AS THE HEDGE FUND manager gets out of his brand-new Porshe, a truck goes rac... 続きをみる

  • run a gauntlet

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 Is religion a placebo that prolongs life by reducing stress? Possibly, although the theory must run a gauntl... 続きをみる

  • flagellar motor

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 In Climbing Mount Improbable, I expressed the point in a parable. One side of the mountain is a sheer cliff,... 続きをみる

  • herstory

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 "history" が差別用語だとして、"herstory" が出てきます。 It was the feminists who raised my consciousness ... 続きをみる

  • Chinese Whispers

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいますが2/25/2012に覚えてその後目にした事のない表現 "Chinese whispers" が次の様に出てきました。 All were written long after the death of... 続きをみる

  • provenance

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 The aliens of our SETI signal would be to us like gods, just as missionaries were treated as gods (and explo... 続きをみる

  • THE ARGUMENT FROM ADMIRED RELIGIOUS SCIENTISTS

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 BERTRAND RUSSELLの次の言葉を引用します。 The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in Christian reli... 続きをみる

  • hemming and hawing

    Reader's Digest Dec/Jan号の記事からの引用です。 A woman is in an exclusive pet store looking to buy a sweater for her dog. After witnessing much hemming and ... 続きをみる

  • euphemistic mouthful

    Reader's Digest Dec/Jan号の記事からの引用です。 You're over 30 and have been with the same guy for three years, but you are not married. Calling him your... 続きをみる

  • thin-skinned U.S. president

    Feb.8のThe Japan Timesの記事からの引用です。 South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s Olympic realpolitik South Korea's president has both neutralized the ... 続きをみる

  • soldier on

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 Bob Barth, the spiritual director of the Missouri prayer ministry which supplied some of the experimental pr... 続きをみる

  • bending over backwards

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 Perhaps there are some genuinely profound and meaningful questions that are forever beyond the reach of scie... 続きをみる

  • double blind

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 神への祈りは本当に効果があるのかどうかをテストで確かめる話です。 Templeton Foundation, to test experimentally the proposition that praying f... 続きをみる

  • theist vs. deist

    Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいます。 The one thing all his theistic critics got right was that Einstein was not one of them. He was repeatedly in... 続きをみる