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Alpha course. The Alpha course is an evangelistic course which seeks to introduce the basics of the Christian faith through a series of talks and discussions. It is described by its organisers as "an opportunity to explore the meaning of life". [1] Alpha courses are run in churches, homes, workplaces, prisons, universities and a wide variety of ...
The PDF of the paper. " Why Most Published Research Findings Are False " is a 2005 essay written by John Ioannidis, a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, and published in PLOS Medicine. [1] It is considered foundational to the field of metascience. In the paper, Ioannidis argued that a large number, if not the majority, of published ...
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Organised by. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. Participants. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon, and others. The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered [1][2][3] to be ...
Mindfulness. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week, evidence-based program designed to provide secular, intensive mindfulness training to help individuals manage stress, anxiety, depression, and pain. MBSR was developed in the late 1970s by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
v. t. e. Imperialism: A Study (1902), by John A. Hobson, is a politico-economic discourse about the negative financial, economic, and moral aspects of imperialism as a nationalistic business enterprise. Hobson argues that capitalist business activity brought about imperialism. [1]
John Arthur Thomas Robinson (16 May 1919 – 5 December 1983) was an English New Testament scholar, author and the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich. [1] He was a lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Dean of Trinity College [2] until his death in 1983 from cancer. [3] Robinson was considered a major force in New Testament studies and in ...
John 16:33. In the final part of the discourse (John 17:1-26) Jesus prays for his followers. This is the longest prayer of Jesus in any of the gospels, and is known as the Farewell Prayer or the High Priestly Prayer. [6][7] The key themes of the prayer are the glorification of the Father and petitions for the unity of the disciples through love ...
Sir John Alexander Macdonald[a] GCB PC QC ( 10 or 11 January 1815 [b] – 6 June 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891. He was the dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, and had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when ...