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Written By: Alex McManus on March 10, 2008 16 Comments

Taking a Walk on the Human Side

Monday, March 10
Orlando, Fl
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“If you learn this you will know something about Jesus that many Christians do not know,” I told them.

       

Written By: Alex McManus on November 26, 2007 8 Comments
Saving the Planet for Whom?

Toni Vernelli works for an environmental charity.
At 25 years of age, Toni became pregnant and aborted the baby
in order to “save the planet.”

       

Written By: Alex McManus on August 31, 2007 No Comment

We look up at the night sky and marvel at the sprinkling of stars. We know that there’s more to it than we can see. Well, now we know there’s less to it too.

Astronomers have “stumbled” across a “tremendous hole” in the universe. The expanse measures some 1 billion light years across. That [...]

Written By: Alex McManus on July 24, 2007 One Comment

Last March, I commented on several chapters from a book titled the Culture Code. [Interestingly enough, last May I met the author's (Clotaire Rapaille) former Polo coach when he approached me because he had read my post]. Today, in an article –that collaborates Rapaille’s premise too well to ignore– titled “New Leaders Say Pensive [...]

Written By: Alex McManus on May 17, 2007 No Comment

Check out this article in the Washington Post on the use of robots in war. It will make you laugh and startle you at the same time. The emotions that the robot evoked from the Colonel will only magnify as Bots become more human like.

HT (i.e Hat Tip) to Tony Sheng who pointed [...]

Written By: Alex McManus on May 16, 2007 No Comment

” When is local journalism not really local?”

       

Written By: Alex McManus on May 15, 2007 6 Comments

The Baja Beach Club in Barcelona made headlines three years ago when it began to “tag” it’s patrons with microchips embedded in the arm. The chip is used to identify people when they enter and pay for drinks.

So, let’s say, you go to the Baja Beach Club. A nurse preps you with a local anesthetic. [...]

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Written By: Alex McManus on May 14, 2007 7 Comments

The World Bank announced this month that 968 million people lived on less than a dollar a day in 2004. That’s down from 1.25 billion in 1990 according to The Economist (2007 April 28th Issue).

Here’s the closing paragraph of the article:

       

Written By: Alex McManus on May 3, 2007 12 Comments
Does everybody dream?

I’m sitting here in the back of the MOSAIC auditorium on the third day of the Mosaic Leadership experience [Origins/ Ethos]. Here’s a photo from where I sit.

The topic is Erwin’s new book, Soul Cravings. On the subject of “Destiny” and “Dreaming” one of the panelists has suggested that [...]

Written By: Alex McManus on April 8, 2007 12 Comments
This we know: the dead do not return.

Joyful Easter. Fifty thousand years of accumulated experience by the 70 - 100 billion Humans who have lived on this planet have led us to know at least one thing: the dead don’t return.

       

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