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Update (1/30/2008): I found a WordPress plug-in that allows me to embed YouTube videos very easily. So here is the updated version of that video with small edits. See if you can spot the difference.
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I have two books to recommend to make good reading during the year-end break. The first book, What Evolution Is by one of the greatest evolutionary biologist of our time, Ernst Mayr, is an exceptional book in terms of conciseness and clarity. Pages after pages facts are brought upfront without much fluffing around, evolution concepts and ideas are explained with great clarity and parsimony, occassionally contrasting them with what Creationism could offer. I have yet to finish the book myself having read only halfway through but I feel happy that I already got my money’s worth just the same. This is one book I will be keeping in my library to serve as a handy reference whenever I need to check my facts or give me a hint on how to proceed when questions about evolutionary theory crops up for clarification, or if I simply have to drill down to the details of the updated theory. The book disagrees with Richard Dawkins‘ gene-centric approach to evolution.
The other book is Free To Choose by Nobel Prize in Economics winner Milton Friedman. It’s co-written by his wife, Rose Friedman. This book picks in the latter half of the 20th century where other libertarians left off earlier. Written in the same spirit as On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, this book will not fail to provoke your thoughts, on the ideal relationship of the individual and the state, with emphasis on personal freedom and conscience. The same spirit that I suppose was the intention by the framers of the Philippine constitution, and which remains an ideal rather than a reality.
Enjoy reading!
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