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Photos from Goa's 2009 mando festival:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157622843319441/
Event on Wed, Thurs evening from 5 pm onwards, Kala Academy, Panaji-Goa
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Fr. Ivo wrote:
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>People die at any age. In our families there have been people who lived
>for long years (80 or more). But even today there are people who die >young.
>Statistics will not give us accurately the data.
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In addition to scientific illiteracy, we are faced with the problem of
innumeracy, a term that was coined by one of my favorite Scientific American
columnists, Douglas Hofstadter, and popularized by the eminent mathematician
John Allen Poulos. Innumeracy is a form of mathematical illiteracy - a failure
to grasp even simple mathematical and statistical facts, as well as the
significance of hard numbers staring at one's face.
You might ask:
How can someone not believe in the accuracy of the fact that the life
expectancy in India has risen to 70 years from a unchanging low of 25 years
before 1920, a time when all we could rely on, was unscientific rituals like
homeopathy and ayurveda, and prescientific quack medicine?
The answer is simple. The people who do so do not really care about genuine
accuracy and objective facts. They simply go by their emotions, subjective
feelings, preconceived ideologies and religious beliefs. In short, the world
they live in is a make-believe world that transcends physical reality.
Cheers,
Santosh
