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By Nathan Gurley Paul McKenna, PhD is a TV show host and author in the UK. His book and TV series share the same name - "I Can Make You Thin". His weight loss system is not a diet at all, in fact, he claims, "Diets are the enemy of weight loss!"... Copyright (c) 2009 Nathan Gurley The diet roller coaster of weight loss will have you gaining more weight than when you first started your diet. It happens to almost every dieter. Now an English doctor some refer to as the “Doctor Phil” of Great
Jan
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I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter isn’t GEB II, as the author ably explains in the preface. While GEB touched on many topics that apply to Hofstadter’s perspective on intelligence and illustrated those topics with Dialogues, this book has tighter focus on consciousness and strange loops. It has a couple Dialogues, much fewer visuals, and mostly photographs in place of artwork (with some great color pictures in the middle). Escher and Bach have fewer appearances. But Gödel and his Theorem
Jan
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It was in the 1960s that the Air Force decided to hire a university to make an impartial study of UFOs to determine if there was a reason for the Air Force to continue to investigate them. The so-called Condon Committee, at the University of Colorado, was formed and began their work in the 1967. I won’t bother here with the details about why I think this was a set up and neither the Air Force nor Condon planned to make a true objective analysis. All this is important because, on December 3, 1967
Jan
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Photograph by Sebastià GiraltDr. Free-Ride: OK, we have these ways of talking, and the tricky thing is to sort out which of them are just metaphors and which point to real stuff. So, we’re happy to say that Cupid isn’t real.If you subscribe to my blog, you may have just gotten a notice that I had updated it with a new post. This new post included a link to another blog post, one that I thought was a great topic for today. I liked it so much, I clicked on the share button to have it posted here,
Jan
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Eat all day. Use smaller plates. Drink lemon juice. Those are just some of the strategies in the newest crop of trendy diet books hitting [...]
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