Neuroscience has learned so much about how we think and the brain activity linked to certain thoughts that it is now possible - on a very basic scale - to read a person's mind. Lesley Stahl reports.
(Science fiction into plain science - Scary if misused and possibly useful if communicating with a comma patient)
Reuters: Israeli solar power plant goes hybrid
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CBS: Artists In Exile
Iran's defeated Presidential candidate Mousavi is being supported by many Iranians in America, some of whom are expressing anger and frustration with art. Seth Doane has more.
bbcworldnews: Nato and Russia renew military ties
Russia and Nato have agreed to resume military co-operation, after nearly a year of difficult relations that followed Russia's conflict with Georgia.
The power of speech differentiates man from all of creation. And with the power of speech comes the power to bring good into the world and sanctify creation, or to bring evil into the world, and denigrate creation. Moshe used speech to achieve the former. Bilaam, the heathen prophet, used speech to achieve the latter.
Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
Parashat Balak is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 12, 5769/July 4, 2009
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