I Think Therefore IB

Intriguing, brain cell stimulating articles of the day:

“When the Deity Knows You’re Dead”: The question raised is, how do different religions define death? How do we know when someone is dead? (Opposite the usual “When does life begin question” – though it does relate back to the entry I posted on Organ Harvesting, except that here we are talking children and adults alike.) Of course, we may also ponder how then does science define death? What about atheists and agnostics? What can we say about all this being a linguistic issue? Do ponder. Deeply.

Moreover, the Dot Earth Blog at the New York Times published this article today, providing “earthly advice for Obama”. Look at the suggestions made by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, two prize-winning ecologists from Stanford University, as some of them could easily be considered radical and allow for plenty of discussion!