The School of Medicine and Health Sciences got orders from GW’s top leader this month to accelerate the search to fill its deanship, after nearly two years of temporary leadership. University President Steven Knapp and Provost Steven Lerman directed the schools faculty executive committee to launch an expedited dean search to stabilize GWs most selective and richest school the first sign of movement in its stalled hunt for a permanent leader. Continue reading
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Monophysitism in the Coptic Church The Doctrines of Pope Shenouda III and Christological issues – Video
Monophysitism in the Coptic Church The Doctrines of Pope Shenouda III and Christological issues Monophysitism the Egyptian scholar George Bebawi, says: “Dioscorus of Alexandria who rejected the Council of Chalcedon (451) made a huge mistake and I don't know how we can correct it.” The current situation of the Coptic Church is a consequence of this move by Dioscorus. But his decision was not abstracted from the context of Egypt in the fifth century. Historically, Egypt was a fertile land for the growth of different philosophical movements, including Gnosticism Continue reading
$80M research facility to open at UMass Lowell
The UMass Lowell Emerging Technologies Innovation Center will officially open next week. Continue reading
The Molyneux Problem
Stefan Molyneux is a popular libertarian broadcaster who has in recent years acquired a considerable following. In Universally Preferable Behavior, he takes on an ambitious task Continue reading
'Flying Squirrel' soars, heads for London Games
By NANCY ARMOUR AP National Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. Continue reading
No money for eugenics victims
RALEIGH (AP) Victims of a decades-old forced sterilization program will have to wait on compensation because legislators did not include any money for them in a state budget deal, in part because Republican leaders could not agree on how to respond to the victims. North Carolina was the first state in the country to tackle the question of how much to give victims of the program, which lasted from 1929 to 1974 and sterilized more than 7,600 people. The program was aimed at creating a better society by weeding out people who were deemed feeble-minded, many of them poor women. Continue reading
Baby Red Crabs Invade Cayman Islands, Could Signal Tough Hurricane Season
Baby red crabs have infested the Cayman Islands by the hundreds of thousands, in an unusually heavy migration season that has caused havoc. If local superstition is any indicator, the Caribbean may face a rough hurricane season Continue reading
The long reach of the Centaur’s dark heart | Bad Astronomy
Every now again I get surprised by a photo, showing me something I didnt know about. And I love it even more when that surprise is from an object I thought I knew! So check out this incredible image of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, a nearby galaxy harboring a whole slew of surprises: [Click to galactinate, or get the 4000 x 4000 pixel version, or, if you're feeling frisky, cram this onto your hard drive: an image that's 8500 x 8400 pixels and 29 Mb in size! And trust me: you want to.] Isnt that stunning? Continue reading