Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
AronRa, pictured here (yes he totally looks like a Klingon, but is truly cool and very smart, I met him a few weeks ago), blogs about an academic study of atheists conducted by the sociology department of Berkeley University that he is taking part in, he basically posted his answers to their survey. One caught … Read more
This one is just weird and for a whole host of reasons utterly pointless and completely dysfunctional, and yet also quite amusing as well. Manchester University have installed a Pray-O-Mat” booth as part of a three-year research project on multi-faith spaces in the UK … as reported in the Guardian … The “pray-o-mat” – which was a … Read more
Connie Schultz, a nationally syndicated columnist based at The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, was apparently challenged on July 9th. She received the following email … Dear Ms. Shultz, We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. … Read more
About one week ago a whole new batch of web suffixes were made available and so the opportunity to screw up has been extended. Supposedly as part of this process a UK-based internet registrar highlighted their top 10 disasters and suggested that unless you think carefully about it, you might end up attracting a very different, unwanted audience. (Yes OK, … Read more
This I love … over on Pharyngula PZ gives a very nice sequence of events that illustrates an example of a Douchebag of epic proportions … truly hilarious. The brief summary is … oh heck no, I’ll not spoil the fun, just go read it. You can also read more about it here. Least you wonder, … Read more
A very interesting paper is available from the Cornell University Library entitled “Gods as Topological Invariants“. The abstract reads … We show that the number of gods in a universe must equal the Euler characteristics of its underlying manifold. By incorporating the classical cosmological argument for creation, this result builds a bridge between theology and … Read more