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Comment by Patricia on April 25, 2013 at 10:23pm Our Canadian astronaut is on Twitter.....

Canadian Astronaut, currently living in space aboard ISS as Commander of Expedition 35.
Orbiting Earth on ISS · http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp
Comment by Tom Sarbeck on April 25, 2013 at 10:14pm Napoleon, thanks for the link to the review of de Waal's The Bonobo and the Atheist.
I fear its final point, that the idea of humankind being in any way special or separate from the rest of the animal kingdom is surely dead, won't penetrate the ideology that xians use to protect their ignorance.
Comment by booklover on April 25, 2013 at 7:20pm Good luck on your final exams Steph and Megan!!! :)
Comment by Megan S. M. on April 25, 2013 at 2:47pm I love the cat and dog pictures, that is heart warming.
It's final exams for me too Steph, I feel the pain T.T
Best of rational thinking to you!
Comment by Napoleon Bonaparte on April 25, 2013 at 2:35pm Chinese Cannibalism
When Chinese cannibal Zhang Yongming was executed, it was for murder, but his acts go far beyond just killing. Yongming ate his victims. He also dried and cured the leftover human flesh and sold it in the southwestern village market of Kunming as ostrich meat, according to Hong Kong newspaper The Standard.
Thank you very much Ian. : )
Comment by Ian Mason on April 25, 2013 at 11:36am Hope all is going well with the finals, Steph.
Oh I just read back and I love shironeko cat Ruth!
Beautiful!!
And Napoleon thanks for the dog trying to save it's friend pic and the evolution of god - so true.
Napoloeon thanks for the animal videos.
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