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...many of which are stylized self-portraits - are also a star of the show. A former fashion photographer in Chicago, Weston lost his vision due to AIDS in 1996, and focuses his lens, and sometimes simply his scanner, on images of decay and disability. "I not only want to look at these things, photograph these things, but put an exclamation point on them," he explains. "I'm saying, 'You need to look at this disabled body, this aging body. And maybe you need to reconsider your ideas about what is normal or abnormal. You need to look...
...would find out that God was a ruse. And that all of this that I felt that day and the subsequent decade was a sham, that it was just brain chemistry, an electrical storm in my temporal lobe, a delusion. My faith is the prism through which I look at the world and make moral decisions. What do you do if you find out it's wrong...
...conclusion I came to looking at all of this is that it's okay to believe and it's okay not to believe. The science is pretty agnostic about the issue. You can look, for instance, at evidence researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found about serotonin receptors sparking mystical experiences and say that it's all brain chemistry. Or you can look at that and say that it's amazing that we are so intricately wired that we have a serotonin receptor that allows us to connect with the divine. It really is a matter of belief...
...grubby hands on the preliminary list of courses that will be available to students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the 2009-2010 school year. And some of these new classes look, to say the least, stimulating...
...while the new paper maintains the belligerent stance displayed last summer and admits that Russia, one of the world's largest exporters of oil and gas, is willing to use military force to protect and even expand its reserve of resources, the tone has been softened. "If you look at what was formulated concerning Arctic strategy last year and you look at this paper, it looks as if the government position has changed and become more moderate," says Petrov. "Another explanation is that the foreign ministry is trying to present strategy in a less aggressive...