Hacking Your Body’s Bacteria for Better Health
From Wired, this is look at the probiotic movement. As any new health food fad the claims far outreach the clinical trials.
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Amazing Crystal Cave
In Mexico there is one of many caves that has these huge gypsum crystals. The photos are just amazing.
Altruistism and religion
So the First Freedom First is doing a blogswarm against theocracy. And I saw this piece on PhysOrg.com, and I thought to comment on it.
Studying twins, the link between good behavior and religion is examed. There seems to be a strong link that behavior has a genetic component. So there is a balancing between the environment(nurture) and genetics(nature) that determines how “good” a person is. I think how this relates to religion, is that a person is more likely to be of the same religion as his/her parents. And this relates to goodness by the moral teachings of religion. However, those how have left religion or who were raised without religion are just as influenced by the genetic and environmental factors related to goodness. So that certain moral absoluts are connected to being human and not necessarilty related to religion.
