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What I’ve Been Up To Lately
- Remember kids, Twitter Torah experiment at 2:30PM EST: Collaborative discussion on Parshat Balak. Get in on it at #balak. 23 hrs ago
- RT @spagnoloacht Video of my Creative Commons Salon presentation on the Jewish Digital Narratives platform http://blip.tv/file/2305108/ 1 day ago
- Yes Men pull out of Jerusalem Film Fest http://su.pr/1uJUsU 1 day ago
- More updates...
10/07/07
Links for October 7th
- British boy arraigned on terrorism charges for possessing “The Anarchist’s Cookbook”
- EPA testing pesticides on low-income children
- The BBC on the iconic image of the bereted Che Guevara
- Some Muslim medical students in the UK refuse to practice medicine that conflicts with their religious beliefs, like treating STDs
- Shifting Targets: The Administration’s plan for Iran
- Larisa Alexandrovna suspects Cheney fed ABC the “U.S. Stalled Israel on Syria Air Strike” story
- Edwards: “We don’t want to replace a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats”
- Who Wants to Bomb Iran? Dems, not the GOP, says Seymour Hersh
- America’s elites have bankrupted our democracy
- Blackwater Faulted In Military Reports From Shooting Scene
- RU Sirius interviews Steve Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble
- Dem. Candidate Mike Gravel: Israel Lobby pushed for Iraq War
- Where the Separation Wall meets the Berlin Wall
- U.S. Stalled Israel on Syria Air Strike
- Daniel Levy on the Israel Lobby
Here’s another one about Jay-Z saying “Lechaim” on Friday night.
Ha! That’s great, Dan. Thanks!
I find the closing words in the medical article a bit odd:
“It is obligatory for Muslim doctors and students to learn about everything. The prophet said, Learn about witchcraft, but don’t practise it’.”
does this mean that they believe in witches? I mean, it is october, but perhaps a better analogy was in order?
Ray, Leonarda da Vinci encountered the same problems; everybody knew he was doing dissections, yet – since dissections were considered a desecration of a human body – officials preferred not to be in the know about his research.
The prophet said, Learn about witchcraft, but don’t practise it’.”
That is what I found to be odd, seeing as how witches don’t exist. As far as da Vinci, I was under the impression that his dissections were carried out in hospitals with their permission.
At da Vinci’s time, dissections (and many surgeries for that matter) were still considered an act of desecration of creation, partly because people believed in physical resurrection. Catholics have only been permitted cremation followed by burial in a Catholic graveyard for the last few decades for the same reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_vinci#Anatomy
Wikipedia leads me to believe otherwise.
Da Vinci also worked, for a time, for Cesare Borgia. (Son of the pope, and quite the interesting fellow).
I’ve studied about the Borgias (part of my university studies was Religious Studies), and also once did a university lesson on the Renaissance popes myself. What can I tell you? Don’t trust Wikipedia; more and more universities reject papers that cite Wikipedia as a source.
I may have read a book or two about the Borgias, or maybe just ones where they are mentioned. FUN PEOPLE!
As an aside, Vincenzo Gonzaga: another fun guy! (Though wikipedia does in fact omit his rather humorous exploits. so it goes)
The Borgias certainly weren’t people to mess with.