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Problems, Opportunities Face Online Religion News, MU Expert Says

By Guest PostAugust 28, 20101 commentCulturepolarizing religion news, religion journalists, religion news, religion news sites

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The recent economic decline has caused many newspapers across the country to make significant cutbacks in staffing and coverage. An MU journalism expert says one area of news that has suffered from these cutbacks is religion news. Debra Mason, professor of journalism studies at the Missouri School of Journalism and director of the Center on Religion and the Professions, says that religion news, which was once routine in many newspapers, has now been relegated to websites and blogs. (more…)

Males Driving Europe’s Summer of Mobile Love

By Guest PostAugust 26, 2010Culture, Technologycomscore mobilens, dating sites, europeans, factor, french, germans, italians, jeremy copp, love, mobile, mobile consumption behavior, mobile phones, smartphone, sms, young adult males

*Mobile Dating Sites on the Rise, Males 25-34 Represent Nearly a Quarter of UsersItalians Lead European Countries in Seeking ‘Amore’ on their Mobiles*

LONDON, U.K., August 26, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from its comScore MobiLens service showing that young adult males factor prominently in the increase in Europeans accessing dating sites on their mobile phones. (more…)

The Facebook Song :-)

By ShamsAugust 22, 2010Culture, EntertainmentFacebook, facebook song

Misused by many many nasty men

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Love: What Brain Says

By ShamsAugust 20, 2010Culture, Scienceanthropologist, brain, helen fisher, love, romantic

Scientists believe by looking into the brain it’s possible to say whether couples are in deep love or …. (more…)

Rare Gold Coin in Israel

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Culture, Science2, 200-year-old coin, alexandria, andrea berlin, andrew booz, antiquities, donald ariel, egyptian ptolemies, hellenistic age, Iraq, Israel, israel museum, james r wiseman, Jerusalem, john g pedley, kelsey museum, kelsey museum of archaeology, lisa cakmak, ptolemaic egyptian queen, ptolemaic mint, seleucid empire, sharon herbert, sharon webb, tel kedesh, university of michigan, upper galilee

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sharon Herbert and her team were wrapping up their dig at the Tel Kedesh site in Israel, sweeping the site in the 140-degree heat, when a student showed University of Michigan doctoral instructor Lisa Cakmak what he first thought was a gold candy wrapper.

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Stereotyping has lasting negative impact, says U of T researcher

By Guest PostAugust 16, 20102 commentsCulture, Generaladverse impacts, aggression, april kemick, effects, michael inzlicht, prejudice, psychology, scarborough, self control, stereotyping, university of toronto

*Prejudice has lingering effects, study shows*

Aggression. Over-eating. Inability to focus. Difficulty making rational decisions. New research out of the University of Toronto Scarborough shows prejudice has a lasting negative impact on those who experience it.

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Religion: Convergence of Cultures or Clash of Creeds?

By PravdaAugust 15, 2010Cultureabraham, adhan, afghanistan, Bible, bubonic plague, bullet, burqah, christian crusaders, doctrine, god, ground zero, islamic calendar, jesus, jewish, józsef molnár, koran, last supper, moslems, mosque, mother nature, muezzin, new testament, ortega y gasset, Paris, patriarch abraham, pravda, prayer, president barack obama, prophet mohammed, ramadan, talmud, tel aviv, timothy bancroft-hinchey, Wikipedia

With the beginning of Ramadan, the Ninth Month of the Islamic Calendar, come hot debates, as to whether Moslems should be allowed to slit the throats of sheep in public, to make the call to prayer (Adhan) in non-Moslem communities, to build a Mosque near Ground Zero.

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Technology and Religion

By BasharAugust 14, 2010Culture, Technologyapplication, Bible, gita, iPhone, mecca, prayer, quran, Technology

Technology’s making things easier, and it’s not only limited to entertainment. Religion is also finding its ‘tech-savvy’ appearance (applications) from one day to the other.

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