Tag Archives: research

Book Review: Bad Pharma

Posted on January 7, 2015 by nathanalbright

Bad Pharma: How Companies Mislead Doctors And Harm Patients, by Ben Goldcare As the second book I have read from the author [1] and the fourth book overall in related topics concerning corruption in contemporary medicine [2], it is helpful … Continue reading →

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Don’t Nobody Know My Troubles But God

Posted on December 22, 2014 by nathanalbright

A few days ago, a song came to my mind that I had heard and liked some years ago, “Natural Blues,” but that just happened to be played on the radio for the first time in a long time. I … Continue reading →

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Citizen Scholars

Posted on August 4, 2014 by nathanalbright

I have from time to time mentioned the online courses I take from Coursera [1], and one of those courses, which I am about 2/3 through, is a course on Spanish documents from the 15th century that deal with the … Continue reading →

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The Unwitting Cause Of All This Grief

Posted on July 27, 2013 by nathanalbright

On the way back from the Feast of Tabernacles in 1999, I happened upon an unusual sort of film called Possession that is precisely the sort of movie I greatly enjoy watching, an unlikely romance between two researchers of Victorian … Continue reading →

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Portland Community Examiner

Posted on January 20, 2013 by nathanalbright

Late last week I was accepted as a writer for Examiner.com as a Portland Community Examiner on the strength of a blog entry I had written about Happy Valley when I first arrived here in Oregon [1]. As is my … Continue reading →

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Scholarly Book Reviews

Posted on November 25, 2012 by nathanalbright

This post contains the scholarly book reviews I have written for historical societies and that are not contained on this blog. Hopefully readers of this blog will enjoy seeing the book reviews I have written outside of this blog for … Continue reading →

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The California Science Center, The Intelligent Design Movement, And Me

Posted on September 1, 2011 by nathanalbright

I have often half-joked that I have a gift for being at the wrong place at the wrong time when it comes to making my life easy and comfortable. I was seemingly born for odd “coincidences” where I happen to … Continue reading →

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On The Implications Of Causality In Mental Trauma

Posted on August 28, 2011 by nathanalbright

Today I would like to discuss a matter of great importance regarding the brain, and give a modest proposal about how this matter could be understood in a scientific manner. I give warning at the outset that this entry is … Continue reading →

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A Church of God Bibliography

Posted on August 7, 2011 by nathanalbright

The Friends of the Sabbath has collected a useful list [[1] Full disclosure: I’m not on it.] of various books and papers written by Church of God authors. The list itself makes for interesting reading, as it is curious just … Continue reading →

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A Church of God Academic Journal

Posted on June 18, 2011 by nathanalbright

There are some thing that intellectuals enjoy simply because we are intellectuals. One of those institutions that intellectuals appreciate, regardless of their political views, is peer-reviewed academic journals. To be an intellectual is to belong, or desire to belong, to … Continue reading →

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