A Most Subversive Idea

6 yrs ago
The church having retired from the academic debate, the main fight in the academy is between those who believe that biology can determine human behaviour to a great degree and others who claim that for man biology stands superseded by the world of culture, with its own laws of interaction and evolution
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Astrological Predictions

6 yrs ago
The year is 1986. The Soviet Union and the United States are locked in a mighty worldwide struggle, with no certainty which side will win. According to the CIA, the Cold War might go on for decades. But that year Hinduism Today, a magazine from Hawaii, publishes three specific forecasts made by G.S. Hiranyappa, a Bangalore astrologer
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The Pakistani Mind

6 yrs ago
Pakistanis reject those branches of science which they think might have a 'Hindu' basis. I know of students who have decided not to do physics because Erwin Schrodinger, the creator of quantum physics, was a Vedantist, and because many philosophers have declared the conundrums of quantum theory similar to that of Vedanta
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