This post is motivated by a discussion I’ve been having over on Unknowing Mind, which has led into the similarities and differences between science and religion. The long quotation I’m about to present seems to me to present in particularly perspicuous fashion the essential differences between the two activities and their accompanying attitudes, and […]
Milinda’s Questions
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Coup in Burma?
An e-mail I just received this afternoon from Ashin Ariyadhamma links to this Newsdesk Special story claiming that General Maung Aye, second-in-command in Burma’s military junta, has stage a coup against Than Shwe. Earlier I saw speculation concerning a split in the junta’s top ranks at mizzima.com, a Thailand-based website reporting news from […]
Great Travel Books
The folks at Concierge.com (a site somehow associated with Conde Nast Traveler) have compiled a list of the greatest travel books. (Actually, the list was compiled by an allstar panel that included Jared Diamond, Robert Kaplan, Jan Morris, Paul Theroux and Gore Vidal.) At 86 books, it’s a lengthy list, although some of […]
