For Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel\’s \”Digging for the Truth,\” myth-dispelling, artifact-hunting and body-straining adventure are part of his regular routine.
Last year, the Pew Internet and American Life Project estimated that 8 million American adults had created blogs. Although the number of specifically Jewish blogs is unconfirmed, those with knowledge of the blogosphere say the pool is substantial. Jewish blogs, or Web diaries, run the gamut from kosher cooking to Israeli advocacy. They include leftist rants, dating melodramas, rabbinic ruminations and secular musings from all corners of the globe.
It\’s probably old news to report that there are specialized Jewish search engines — there have been since the earliest days of the Web — but there are still new ones emerging.
Much of the literature against Proposition 73 correctly emphasizes that many teenage girls will seek underground abortions, rather than have their parents (or guardians, foster parents or other legal designees) learn that they are pregnant.
The Los Angeles Fearless Family Caregiver Conference is in Carson on June 28 It is sponsored by Today\’s Caregiver magazine along with the City of L.A. Department of Aging and the L.A. County Area Agency on Aging.
Together with Jason Hardy and Henry Harpending of the University of Utah, Gregory Cochran is publishing in a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Biosocial Science a paper that not only suggests that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about.
The group in question is Ashkenazi Jews. The process is natural selection.
The mere mention of eugenics, which refers to a movement to improve humankind by controlling genetic factors through mating, is enough to ring bells that many Jews would rather not hear 60 years after the Allied defeat of the Nazis.
When David J. Gross, a winner of this year\’s Nobel Prize in physics, was asked whether he was Jewish, he told a reporter, \”What do you think? Of course!\” The same affirmative answer applied to five out of six 2004 science Nobel Laureates. Two are Israelis, three are Americans — all from Southern California universities — and two of these Americans have close ties to Israel.
The wind grows colder, the days shorter and a 165-page, gray book of propositions arrives in everybody\’s mailbox. Welcome to the election season — for Californians.
In 1979 two tiny pieces of cracked and deteriorated silver found in a tomb outside of the Old City of Jerusalem proved to be one of the most important archeological discoveries of the century.
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