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| | Evolution # Possible Creatures A professor of Evolutionary Biology discusses his work mapping "nature's library" of proteins. He makes tenuous parallels to Platonism, but the work stands on its own whether you take those into account or not. Mind and Brain # The Science of Near Death Experiences Explores the debate about the mechanism of near-death experiences between scientific materialists and spiritual believers. I surprisingly fall somewhere in the middle on this and other similar issues. Although my beliefs and background are steeped in science, reading Michael Crichton's book [Travels](Travels (Vintage Departures)) convinced me that there's nothing to be gained by taking a hard stance against these phenomena without having done the proper due diligence. I do, however, take issue with the idea that these phenomena, and consciousness by extension, are inexplicable. Even if these experiences were proven to arise from a non-materialist form of consciousness, I still firmly believe that they could be explained.
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| | It reduced its Apple shares from 790 million to 400 million in April-June, a noticeable move for a firm that usually holds onto stocks for a long time.
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| | Michael Batnick's new book,Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments came out this week. There are far too many investing books that dissect the past successes of history's greatest investors. These books make it easy for investors to assume emulating these greats should be effortless. I know that's what I thought when I...
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