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Saturday, March 22, 2008 - Posts
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Dear All You are all invited to join us for another Jordev Community Night, this Wednesday, March 26 , at PSUT. ( Princess Sumaya University for Technology ) For more information regarding the location of the Community Night, please contact: Ayman Farouk: Read More...
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It is many years since I last visited Qasr el Tuba, so when we set out on Saturday I told everyone that when we get down to Qatraneh and turn left into the desert it will just be trails. Imagine our surprise when we found this perfect 17 kilometre stretch Read More...
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Jack has been posting on epistemic closure principles . I know that I have hands. I also know that, if I have hands, then I'm not a (handless) brain in a vat (BIV). But, it's generally supposed, I can't know that I'm not a BIV. Something weird's going Read More...
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Ever since Qwaider posted QP bloggers ratings by Technorati and Alexa, I've tried to look it up myself and just get more and more befuddled. I got it once, and it said 25% of the hits were from India! Shu? Is that where spam-bots breed or something? I Read More...
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This presentation, from Stanford's brilliant Lawrence Lessig, is the best thing I've seen all year. He discusses how institutional corruption undermines public trust (in case of experts such as academics and doctors), and leads to transparently bad policy Read More...
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This is quite a topic. To begin with, compare and contrast the following five quotes. (1) Bryan Caplan quotes Harford on peer sanctions/ostracism for "acting white": [A]s long as African Americans remain disadvantaged and clustered together in ghettos, Read More...
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While I was having a discussion with Jeff about Good Friday this morning, I realized that Good Friday (which I believe is the Western term) is called "Sad Friday" or Aljoumaa Al Hazeeneh (الجمعة الحزينة) in Arabic. I have never noticed this Read More...
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This is my heart-shaped clock. I bought it a long time ago, and discovered it recently still unused and in its package. It makes a loud ticking sound which I love, but I don’t love ‘time’ itself. Since the clock is heart-shaped, you Read More...
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In the Arab Champions League 2007/2008, the Strongest and most popular Soccer League in the Arab World, four teams have qualified to the semi finals, qualified teams are: Al Faisaly (Jordan), Wefaq Staif (Algeria), Al Wedad AlBaydawi (Morocco), and Tala' Read More...
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What infuriates me the most when I think about discrimination against women is the fact that oftentimes in our society women themselves subscribe to it, defend it, and pass it on to their children. Here’s a story in today’s al-Ghad : a woman who was found Read More...
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فرصة ( فتحاس ) الأخيرة اضغط هنا لقراءة المقال و التعليق عليه ملاحظة لأصحاب المدونات والمواقع: اترك رابط موقعك اسفل التعليق Read More...
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