I don't want this post to come across as snarky. I just want to know your honest opinions.
Peace be with you,
Hello, I'm a cradle Roman Catholic and I've recently started to go to a Ukrainian Catholic Church and attending their Divine Liturgies. This sparked my interest into learning more of eastern Christianity. However, I'm still currently reading Theology of the Body and was just wondering what the orthodox perspective is.
Another question I have is Prayer. I was recently talking to my orthodox penpal in Kiev and as we were discussing life and what not and I mentioned that I would pray for her and her tribulations. She said "no don't pray for me, pray for yourself, we bring these matters(petitions) to the priests/monks" This had me a bit confused as I usually pray for friends and family who are struggling or sometimes even ask me to pray for them.
Also, any book recommendations in general concerning the orthodox tradition/spirituality?
Thank you
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I’m Jim Hansen, a professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.<http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/sections/view/9> I'm joined today by 3 colleagues who are scientists representing different aspects of climate science and coauthors on papers we'll be talking about on this AMA.
--Paul Hearty, paleoecologist and professor at University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC Dept. of Environmental Studies. “I study the geology of sea-level changes”
--George Tselioudis, of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; “I head a research team that analyzes observations and model simulations to investigate cloud, radiation, and precipitation changes with climate and the resulting radiative feedbacks.”
--Pushker Kharecha from Columbia University Earth Institute; “I study the global carbon cycle; the exchange of carbon in its various forms among the different components of the climate system --atmosphere, land, and ocean.”
Today we make the case for urgent action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which are on the verge of locking in highly undesirable consequences, leaving young people with a climate system out of humanity's control. Not long after my 1988 testimony to Congress, when I concluded that human-made climate change had begun, practically all nations agreed in a 1992 United Nations Framework Convention to reduce emissions so as to avoid dangerous human-made climate change. Yet little has been done to achieve that objective.
I am glad to have the opportunity today to discuss with researchers and general science readers here on redditscience an alarming situation — as the science reveals climate threats that are increasingly alarming, policymakers propose only ineffectual actions while allowing continued development of fossil fuels that will certainly cause disastrous consequences for today's young people. Young people need to understand this situation and stand up for their rights.
To further a broad exchange of views on the implications of this research, my colleagues and I have published in a variety of open access journals, including, in PLOS ONE, Assessing Dangerous Climate Change: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature (2013), PLOS ONE, [Assessing Dangerou
... keep reading on reddit ➡I was debating with a thick-skulled Christian and the debate was going nowhere. He then said >"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes." - John Paul II
To which I responded with > "Only a Sith deals with absolutes." Since you Christians believe God is Absolute, you are sith.
Hi r/science, I study Climate Change Science and the psychology surrounding it. I co-authored the college textbook Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis, and the book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand. I've published papers on scientific consensus, misinformation, agnotology-based learning and the psychology of climate change. I'm currently completing a doctorate in cognitive psychology, researching the psychology of consensus and the efficacy of inoculation against misinformation.
I co-authored the 2011 book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand with Haydn Washington, and the 2013 college textbook Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis with Tom Farmer. I also lead-authored the paper Quantifying the Consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature, which was tweeted by President Obama and was awarded the best paper published in Environmental Research Letters in 2013. In 2014, I won an award for Best Australian Science Writing, published by the University of New South Wales.
I am currently completing a PhD in cognitive psychology, researching how people think about climate change. I'm also teaching a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, which started last week.
I'll be back at 5pm EDT (2 pm PDT, 11 pm UTC) to answer your questions, Ask Me Anything!
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Edit 2 (7PM ET): Have to stop for now, but will come back in a few hours and answer more questions.
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I'm listening to an Orthodox preist talk about marriage and sexuality and it's reminding me of JP II's Theology of the Body. I know there is a difference between Catholic and Orthodox theology, but I'm currious if anyone is familiar if Theology of the Body Works in an Orthodox frame work and if so are there any similar Orthodox theological works? Thank you.
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Our institute (icm.jhu.edu) studies how computational methods can improve the design and administration of therapies as diverse as drugs, gene therapy, gene editing, transplants, deep brain stimulation, optogenetics, and more. We (Sri and Feilim) are part of the first cohort of Catalyst Award winners at JHU, a new award supporting creative research ideas from early career faculty.
Feilim Mac Gabhann is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and of Materials Science & Engineering, and a member of both the Institute for Computational Medicine and the Institute for NanoBioTechnology. Our lab studies Systems Pharmacology and Personalized Medicine. We build computational models that link micro-scale events like molecular interactions and cellular behavior to human-scale physiology. We use these models to study drug delivery and effect in diseases as diverse as cancer, peripheral artery disease, and HIV. We incorporate patient data into these models, to evaluate the differences that cause a drug to work in some people but not others. By simulating different drug regimens across a large population, we run what we call 'virtual clinical trials'. Our most recent paper, supported by the Catalyst award, evaluates bone marrow transplants as a potential cure for patients with HIV, using real patient data to determine what are the likely conditions for success of this treatment.
Sridevi Sarma is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, and a member of both the Institute for Computational Medicine. Our lab studies electrical patterns in the normal and diseased brain. We build computational and statistical models of electrical activity in neural circuits affected by Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, chronic pain, and insomnia. These models can also predict mechanisms of action of electrical stimulation therapy and can be used to design more efficient and more effective therapies that are also personalized to patients. Our most recent patent is a result of work supported by the Catalyst award wherein we process eeg, emg and eog signals while patients are sleeping to automatically score sleep stages – a process which is currently manual and costly. We are applying sophisticated data analytics to also identify physiological markers of sleeping disorders.
We’re looking forward to speaking with you about our research! **We will begi
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