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Robert M. Price is interviewed over at Point of Inquiry. Fascinating stuff.
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I have previously posted some wrap ups from the TED conference. Here are day 3 and 4
Day 3 wrap up including JJ Abrams and Jeff Skoll.
Day 4 wrap up including Richard Branson

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Couple of cool articles about robots. Some of this seems a little premature but it can’t hurt to figure some of this out now, I guess.
3 Laws Safe, BBC article about South Korea’s robotic ethics work. Here’s a post on Cosmic Variance about this article.
Here’s another post on Cognitive Daily summing up a lot of [...]

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National Geographic has an article about how germs and viruses have helped to speed up evolution by providing a much quicker way for DNA to be transferred from one species to another.
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The New Scientist has an article on a stitched together panorama of galaxies called the AEGIS strip. Very cool I wonder if you can buy this as a poster or something. My kids would love it… ok fine I would love it.

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Everybody take the opportunity to give Rep. Fortney H. “Pete” Stark (D-Calif.)  a word of encouragement. He has just recently publicly identified himself as a nontheist (a kinder, gentler atheism).
Here is the link to the full press release from the Secular Coalition of America. Here’s the text below.
Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) is first Congress member [...]

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I just finished reading Lake Monster Mysteries by Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell.
Being a skeptic I found it a great book for digging into some of the falsehoods and misrepresentations that you get from a lot of “Nessie” proponents and their like. I do like the fact they spend most of their time not talking [...]

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Like many of my earlier posts, I had moved some from my personal blog. Here is one I did a couple months ago shortly after reading Michael Shermer’s Why Darwin Matters.
I read Michael Shermer’s new book “Why Darwin Matters” over the weekend. I needed to cleanse my palate before I attempted to finish up Ann [...]

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