Friday, February 23, 2018

In the news, Wednesday, February 7, 2018


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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS

Food may influence cancer spread
There is mounting evidence the food on your plate can alter cancer's growth and spread, say Cambridge scientists.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

Let the Market Give Discrimination Its Just Desserts
Anybody who refers to the United States as a free enterprise, free market, or capitalist economy is wrong. Real liberty and freedom mean that individuals, including business owners, may choose to associate with whomever they wish based on whatever criteria they wish. This is not the case in the United States.

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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)

Toward a New Vision for Formation
Too often the study of Scripture and theology is done at arm’s length, like a scientist engaging in vivisection. In too many cases residential training has differed little from full-time undergraduate or postgraduate programs. The Church must be better about treating its ordinands like grownups and recognizing how vulnerable many of them are.

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from NPR (& affiliates)
Nonprofit Broadcasting & Media Production Company

Linguists Discover Previously Unidentified Language In Malaysia
Linguists working in the Malay Peninsula have identified a language, now called Jedek, that had not previously been recognized outside of the small group of people who speak it. The newly documented language is spoken by some 280 people, part of a community that once foraged along the Pergau River.

The Difficult Math Of Being Native American
It's called blood quantum. Lots of Native nations, including my friend's, use it to determine who can and can't enroll as a citizen. But even in tribes like my own that use different enrollment policies, the notion that Indigeneity can be quantified — that it's our "blood" that makes us Native or not — is impossible to avoid.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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