Michael Liccione on the nature/grace question: Backward Christian soldiers

Pertinacious Papist has an interesting excerpt from a book written by Joseph Ratzinger in the mid-60s: Revisiting Pope Benedict on Ecumenism & Ecclesiology

Umberto Eco's homepage
Umberto Eco: Porta Ludovica - Author Homepage

Google Books: A Theory of Semiotics, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, more

AFP: Japanese create stem cells from wisdom teeth (via Drudge)

First skin, now wisdom teeth... what else will turn out to be a source of stem cells?

Scientists Use Skin To Create Stem Cells
Making Skin Cells Into Stem Cells Minus the Cancer | Wired Science
Human Skin Cells Reprogrammed Into Embryonic Stem Cells
Scientists Reach Stem Cell Milestone - TIME

From 2005: Stem Cell Breakthrough: No More Need to Destroy Embryos?