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Ross Douthat, who is Catholic, wishes Pope Benedict were more media-savvy. Here’s part of the advice he offers the Vatican: Again, the Catholic Church will always face particular difficulties in its dealings with the press. But the rules that apply to politicians also apply to popes. Responding swiftly is always better than responding slowly, and…

A UK reader writes with a reflection on Tory Party leader David Cameron’s Easter message. The reader writes: Despite the fact that he is an Anglican Christian of sorts, and the message was issued on Good Friday, he made no mention of darkness, sin, weakness, reflection, redemption, resurrection. It was the standard “can’t we all…

Lots of press attention to Traif, a new restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, run by a Jewish man and his Gentile partner. Their gimmick is … well, it’s the sort of thing that if a Muslim tried it with a restaurant named Haram, would probably get himself splodey-doped. From the Jewish webzine Tablet’s review: The last…

News from The New York Times that makes you want to take the tire around your 43-year-old midsection back to bed: Being fat is bad for your brain. That, at least, is the gloomy conclusion of several recent studies. For example, one long-term study of more than 6,500 people in northern California found that those…

He’s the 27-year-old Apple engineer who lost the top-secret new iPhone. He’s described as “tired and broken.” Ya think? Can you just imagine? “Mr. Jobs will see you now, son.” UPDATE: Gizmodo, which broke the news (and outed Gray Powell), explains why it wasn’t an Apple leak. For example: While the outing of Apple engineer…

Here’s a post that combines two of my favorite things: coffee and juvenile scatological humor. Naturally, I speak of the exceedingly rare and expensive coffee brewed from beans that have been treated inside the gut of a civet cat, then excreted whole out it’s civetty, catty rear end. With the stuff selling for over $200…

Sarah Peyton tracks the ups and downs of learning to live with the iPad — and because she’s in publishing, she wonders if it will kill the Kindle. Excerpt: I’ve owned a Kindle for about 6 months and it’s my trusty companion whenever I travel. The Kindle, my headlamp, and my iPhone sit on my…

Physicist Sean Carroll explains why time travel isn’t likely (it has to do with entropy), and how Hollywood and fiction writers fail to get the science right: Q. YOU WRITE THAT THE NATURE OF TIME IS SUCH THAT WE CAN’T GO BACKWARD. A. It’s likely that we can’t do time travel. But we don’t know…

I’d love to see a (civil, philosophical) discussion on the question above. Though I ask for a view on whether or not Christians should do this, I would also be interested in hearing from Jews and Muslims about whether it is advisable (or not) for believers in their respective traditions to take up the Asian…

Boing Boing explains why we’ve all got to start working “yaka-wow” into our daily conversation. For example:
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