Just to clarify my son didn’t make the racist comment but he heard one and the circumstances of it are highly disturbing. I only found out later when I couldn’t create a “scene” which was probably a good thing.
I will recount the details briefly. Memorial Day found my family and I at my brother and [...]
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Like so many I fondly remember watching Mr. Wizard on Nickelodeon as a child (early 80’s). He always had these really cool experiments he would do with stuff you could find in your kitchen or bathroom. Of course, my mother did her part to squash this little budding scientist (”Don’t you even think about mixing [...]
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I could spend hours on YouTube. Here are some clips from Richard Dawkins.
Discovery New show “The Big Question: Why are we here?” hosted by Dawkins
CSPAN Q&A, hilarious interaction between a biology student from Liberty University and Dawkins
Speaking on his new book “The God Delusion” and biblical morality
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I’ve been trolling youtube and came across these classics from Penn & Teller, by the way NSFW.
From The West Wing
From their show BullShit - Near Death Experiences
Again from their show BullShit - The Bible is BullShit
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I have just completed reading Nica Lalli’s book “Nothing” this weekend. The book is not very long and is a very easy read. The book is essentially a memoir that centers specifically around Nica Lalli’s experiences from early childhood to present with religion. I’m not a big fan of memoir-style writing in general but this [...]
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Here’s a SciAm blog post (including picture) of a Chinese man who used 66 beer bottles as a solar hot water heater.
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Is there nothing the Sun can’t do? I found this article (via Fark) about a San Antonio brewery that is getting LEED-certified and going solar.
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Found this via Friendly Atheist
This is hilarious. The man speaking is the “pastor” behind Landover Baptist Church at landoverbaptist.org. This video is from an Atheist’s Rally in D.C.
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The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.
That is the money quote from a recent Gallup poll that surveyed Americans in response to a recent Republican presidential debate in [...]
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“The Last Page” of the Smithsonian magazine often has some witty commentary or story. The current issue (June 2007) has an excerpt from Simon Rich’s book Ant Farm. I can’t find an online link to this content so I will reproduce some of it here so you can get an idea of the article.
Here are [...]
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