For the third time in three weeks the leadership of the ONETuesday Trios League changed hands.
CMJ now sit top by a point after winning 4-0 over Pin Punishers.
Steve Ralston finished on a 191 game for a 510 series.
Clochandichters suffered a 4-0 loss against The Muppets despitethe …
INTO THE JAWS OF YAMA, LORD OF DEATH: BUDDHISM, BIOETHICS,
AND DEATH. By Karma Lekshe Tsomo. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2006. Pp. 270.
An anecdote recounted in this work gives an insight into the present state of Buddhist bioethics. The author relates how she asked the spiritual director of a Tibetan centre in Honolulu whether he thought it was a good idea to donate one's organs at the time of death. He immediately replied in the affirmative. When asked if the removal of the organs would disturb the dying process, he responded that it would be okay since the doctors could "wait for a few days." On being informed that the organs had to be removed immediately to save the life of the recipient he "expressed alarm" and changed his mind, advising that for an ordinary Buddhist practitioner organ donation might not be advisable after all (p. 160).
The fact that Tibetan lamas are giving ethical advice on organ donation without even a layman's knowledge of the medical procedures involved suggests that Buddhist teachers have a lot to learn about adapting traditional teachings to modern contexts. If the problem were simply that many lack scientific knowledge, this could probably be resolved in the short to medium term. The deeper problem, however, is that Buddhism as a tradition lacks the ethical infrastructure needed to address moral dilemmas, particularly those of the complex kind presented by contemporary scientific and medical developments. Despite their undoubted acumen in certain branches of philosophy (notably metaphysics), Buddhist thinkers of the past have consistently failed to probe the moral foundations of their teachings or to establish a theoretical foundation in terms of which moral dilemmas can be analyzed. Not a single treatise on moral philosophy was produced by any of the classical scholars cited in this volume as authorities. Not surprisingly, the legacy of this neglect is that the voice of Buddhism has been almost completely silent …
Today's question:
Which World Series-winning team was dubbed ``The Hitless Wonders?''
Answer to yesterday's question: …
Nick Swisher and Curtis Granderson hit two-run doubles in the second inning to back another stingy start by Phil Hughes, and the New York Yankees handed the Baltimore Orioles their seventh straight loss, 9-1 on Wednesday night.
Robinson Cano hit a two-run homer in the seventh and ran his hitting streak to 16 games for New York, which had 14 hits. Jorge Posada returned to the lineup after sitting out since May 16 with a broken bone in his right foot and went 1 for 3 with a walk.
Fielding a nearly complete opening-day lineup for the first time in several weeks, the Yankees pounced on Brad Beregesen (3-4) for six runs in 2 1-3 innings and beat Baltimore for the …
The Electrical Nature of Storms (D. R. MacGorman and W. D. Rust, 1998, 422 pp., $85.00, hardbound, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-507337-1). The stated goal of the authors was "to produce a modern, graduate level textbook on the electrical processes of storms." To achieve this, material was gathered from course notes and recent research results. The book begins with a tutorial on basic electricity and magnetism, followed by 10 …
For years, scientists have been telling us to stay out of the sun.' Now, they are saying we need to go out in the sun to protect ourselves from three of the most common cancers.
A few minutes of sunshine a few times a week can reduce the likelihood of getting colon, breast and prostate cancer by as much as 200%. This, according to researcher Michael Holick of Boston University, Massachusetts, is because of the way sunshine helps the body produce vitamin D. Pharma companies are already actively trying to produce vitamin D analogues as preventative treatments for cancer, he says.
'Vitamin D regulates cell growth, it tells the cells when to stop growing, and …
Painkillers based on the TRPV1 receptor could be in trouble after tests in rats showed that blocking the receptor could interfere with brain functions, such as memory and learning.
A team led by Julie Kauer, at Brown University in the US, discovered, using slices of rat brain, that TRPV1 receptors trigger a long-term depression (LTD) of nerve signalling in the hippocampus region of the brain (Neuron 2008, 57, 746). This depression is essential to establishing memory and learning pathways.
A number of pharmaceutical companies are investigating new compounds that block TRPV1 because it is thought that blocking TRPV1 could help treat inflammatory and neuropathic pain. …
