Or so says the new Pray for Healing web site, formerly known as the Pray for Trig web site.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
It would be a nice gesture for Bob Menendez to step down …
… from his position as Chair of the DSCC. The motto of the DSCC is “Committed to Electing a Democratic Senate.” Just now, there was one … ONE!!!!!! … race in play. One that would be hard to lose. One that would be disastrous to lose.
Bob. Menendez. Needs. To. Resign. Now.
Scientia Pro Publica
the blog carnival, is here.
US Military Rifle Scopes Imprinted with Bible Verses
This is bible thumpers breaking military rules, US law, and endangering the troops.
The war profiteers who do this admit it, and retorts that those who do not like the bible references printed on US military hardware are “not Christians.” Presumably this means that their complaints are irrelevant.
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Oh, this is funny.
In a very very bad way. The FBI needs to get a grip.
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Core Values, Atheism and Religion
Being right or wrong, being smart or not so smart, being religious-born vs. atheist-born, skeptical or not, or recovered faithful, figuring out what to think or believe vs. receiving the way or the wisdom. . It’s complicated.
Read: Core Values, Atheism and Religion, Mike’s latest installment at Quiche Moraine.
Like the fruit says, “There is no god”
Hat Tip: Jim
Religion and Science: The Non Debate
There is an interesting conversation developing on The Intersection (What Should Science Organizations Say About Religion? Answer: A Lot) to which this is my response:
The conversation you have modeled here (people talking past each other … see the original post) is very close to what actually happens in an NCSE like conversation, except that someone following the NCSE approach (as I usually do in this context) also mentions that for most religions this is not an issue, etc. etc. (I usually throw in a few quotes from this or that pope).
And, noting that many religious people have no problem with evolution, and that people are complex thinking beings who can often hold viewpoints that at some level are incompatible and other levels not, are both things I’ve seen new atheists say (including PZ Myers himself!)
All of which leads me to conclude that most of us are not that far from each other on what we are saying and thinking most of the time.
Which operating systems support USB 3.0?
Now that USB 3.0 is out, when will Linux get it?
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The famous Shorewood High School Lip Dub Video (Hall and Oats)
This was a project by a high school video class. As you watch, you’ll see objects doing things that they should not do as students take turns singing a Hall and Oats song while they walk/dance along the halls of their high school.
The entire thing is filmed backwards, which explains how paper air planes unfly and bubbles unblow and baloons unpop and stuff unfalls. But if you watch the lip syncing students, you’ll notice that they are lip syncing correctly … their lips are matching the words as well as lip syncing does. But how did they make this happen if they were filming backwards?
Watch the video:
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Yellowstone: She’s gonna blow!!!
Well, not really.
But, as noted in Eruptions, there is a new swarm of little earthquakes underneath the Yellowstone Caldera. You’ll remember we discussed this here last time that happened. Since that time, of course, we’ve gotten to see what it would actually look like if the world’s scariest caldera (maybe) actually went off:
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The Skeptics Circle Blog Carnival
is here art Ionian Enchantment. Please have a look, there is good stuff there. Honest. No need to be skeptical about it. Just go and look!
Important Ocean Blogging News
Miriam Goldstein of The Oyster’s Garter will now be blogging at Deep Sea News.
Miriam is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch researcher featured here.
Bookmark DSN. Interesting things will be happening.
Ed on Limbaugh inre Haiti
… in the latest episode of Psycho Talk.
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#scio10 Science Online 2010 recollections and reflections on the sessions I attended
Last weekend I attended Science Online 2010, which is a conference of science communicators with a heavy mix of bloggers, many journalists and others from the print industry, an increasingly large number of book authors, and OpenX (X=access, notebook, science, or whatever) advocates and practitioners.
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