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The Lost Gospels
Originally Aired: March 15, 2008 on BBC 2
Anglican priest Peter Owen Jones explores the huge number of ancient Christian texts that didn’t make it into the New Testament. Shocking and challenging, these were works in which Jesus didn’t die, took revenge on his enemies and kissed Mary Magdalene on the mouth. Pete travels through Egypt and the former Roman Empire looking at the evidence of a Christian world very different to the one we know, and finds over seventy gospels, acts, letters and apocalypses all circulating in the early Church.
Watch at Google Video
Via: Atheist Media Blog
The Transformers just keep getting more realistic
And just for fun…
Be sure to check out the rest of Dr. Smoov’s YouTube videos. He has some great spoofs on G.I. Joe as well.
Penn & Teller tear down creationism
You Don’t Have To Pass An IQ Test To Be In The Senate
Something tells me Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas is going to regret those words someday.
Via: Atheist Media Blog
NOVA’s The Bible’s Buried Secrets
The Bible’s Buried Secrets, premiering November 18 on PBS, is NOVA’s two-hour special on the history of the both the Old Testament (Tanakh) and of the Israelites through the archeological artifacts they left behind.
A powerful exploration of science, scripture, and scholarship, “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” examines the most pressing issues in biblical archeology: Who actually wrote the Hebrew Bible? Is there a real historical core to stories of Abraham, Moses and the Exodus, and King David, a warrior and writer of psalms, and his son, Solomon, who built the great temple in Jerusalem? And beyond the question of historical authenticity, what is the deeper meaning of these stories and why do they resonate today? Provocative new answers emerge from the program’s investigation of decades of literary research and archeological investigation in the Near East.
Via: PBS NOVA
Complimentary & Alternative Computer Repair
What’s next… a homeopathic podcast?
Via: Bad Astronomy
The Genius of Charles Darwin by Richard Dawkins
Another excellent documentary by Richard Dawkins on the elegant simplicity of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Within just the first 10 minutes, Dawkins creates an excellent metaphor for the body of evidence supporting evolution.
Nobody’s actually seen evolution take place over a long period but they’ve seen the after-effects and the after-effects are massively supported. Its like a case in a court of law where nobody can actually stand up and say, “I saw the murder happen.” But yet you’ve got millions and millions of pieces of evidence which no reasonable person could possibly dispute.
NOVA Offers ‘Open Content’
For their newest program, Car of the Future, NOVA and PBS have decided to try and get the public involved by making more than 200 raw, unedited video clips available online for everyone in hopes that they will fuel creativity and foster a sharing of ideas. The clips include expert interviews and a variety of scenic shots.
The videos are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported so there are only a few restrictions on what you can do with them.
Food For Thought
Sir David Attenborough on the Orangutan
It makes me wonder why we don’t have more large-scale facilities designed to study and possibly facilitate this kind of behavior.
Here Be Dragons
Brian Dunning has created a 40-minute video introduction to critical thinking called Here Be Dragons based on his excellent Skeptoid podcast.
Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.
Here Be Dragons is suitable for general audiences and is licensed for free distribution and public display. Go download your own copy or purchase a DVD at the Here Be Dragons website.
It’s Hard Being A Liberal
Roy Zimmerman tells us just how hard it is from his album Thanks for the Support.
I’d like to say I can relate to some of this. But at the present moment, I can’t afford to.
Via: Pharyngula
And This Is You Brain On Love
Helen Fisher and her team have spent the last few years studying the brain mechanisms responsible for love by putting various groups of people in various states of love into an MRI machine.
Though not very heavy on the science, this little talk does a nice job of opening up a lot of questions about the nature and evolutionary history of love and other complimentary emotions.
Dr. Horrible Is Stuck In My Head
Joss (Firefly/Serenity) Wheadon’s newest internet brainchild Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is just what I’ve been needing. Not that I’ve particularly been experiencing a hankering for Super-Hero-Musical-Mini-Web-Series but Wheadon’s tiny fantasy has taken me by surprise.
Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris) runs a video blog in which he describes his earnest attempts to become a member of the Evil League of Evil (A … wait for it … “evil” organization run by someone called Bad Horse.), get up enough nerve to talk to the cute girl at the laundromat, Penny (Felicia Day) and defeat his arch-nemisis Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion).
In true comedic musical genius, songs are formed out of the most unlikely of candidates. From Dr. Horrible’s Freeze Ray (that will ’stop… the world’) to Penny’s Petition Song, they’re all well written and very well performed. There’s a great method of mixing spoken word and singing, like when Penny walks up behind Dr. Horrible during the heist in Act. 1, that pokes a bit of fun at the normal “Musical” style.
All in all I love it. Highly recommended. Go watch Acts 1 and 2 now. Act 3 will be available Sat.
The Periodic Table of Videos
The University of Nottingham has started a wonderful online video project, The Periodic Table of Videos.
You can subscribe via YouTube or view them at the official website, The Periodic Table of Videos.
The Young And The Restless Talk Science
The supa-hottie Beauty (Abbie Smith) and the supa-atheist Beast (PZ Myers) have recorded an excellent discussion for everyone over at Bloggingheads where they successfully break down epigenetics, creationism, and crackers.
Via: Pharyngula & ERV
P.S. Sorry about the “Beast” part PZ. But honestly, in comparison…
