Friday, June 24, 2011

Rihanna at the Chastain Park Amphitheater

 

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There is still time to buy tickets for Rihanna who will be coming to Atlanta on July 12th.  The concert starts at 7:30pm  at the Chastain Park Amphitheater.  But act soon.  She will be performing with Cee Lo Green, so tickets are expected to sell fast!  For more info and to purchase tickets, check out the Chastain Concert Series website

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Don’t Forget Dad!

 

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Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 19th.   What was the best advice you ever received from your Father?  Share it with us!  We’d love to hear it.

 

Or just enjoy some of these pithy quotes about our favorite dads:

 

"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station." -- Bill Cosby

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." -- Enid Bagnold

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be." – Unknown

"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' " -- Jim Fox

"A father is a banker provided by nature." -- French Proverb

"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'" -- Dexter Scott King

"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'" -- Jerry Lewis

"Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much." – Unknown

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." -- Charles Wadsworth

 

Check out more quotations here.  And here’s an anecdote from America’s favorite dad:

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Emory Explores the Realities of X-Men

 

Have you seen the latest X-Men movie?  If you have, or if you’re a fan, you should check out this article from Emory University.  Ethics professor Paul Wolpe argues that given today’s advancement in biotechnology, creating X-Men-like human being is entirely plausible.  What holds us back from using these technologies are the ethical questions and pragmatic concerns behind them.  What do you think?

The debut of the movie “X-Men: First Class” this summer is one more chapter in America’s ongoing fascination not only with science fiction, but with the ethical issues that result from humankind’s pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, says Paul Wolpe, director of Emory’s Center for Ethics and an expert on bioethical issues.

“’X-Men’ is the story of a reviled minority,” says Wolpe, in this case, a minority with genetic mutations that give them extraordinary powers. Of course, genetically, X-Men make no sense, he adds. There’s no way that even dramatic genetic mutation would result in a normal human being giving birth to a human being with wings.

“On the other hand, X-Men are completely plausible as biotechnological developments, and we’re already developing some of the kinds of powers that the X-Men illustrate,” Wolpe says. “There are genetic engineering possibilities for human beings that would increase things like memory, perhaps attention, and maybe even strength, not to super-human levels, but perhaps to mimic the best achievements of the species.”

And although “we still don’t know how to create muscles that exceed the muscles of the strongest creatures on earth,” says Wolpe, “it’s when you combine natural ability with technology that you can talk about truly extraordinary types of powers.”

Check out the whole article here, or just watch the interview:

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