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Noah’s Ark-God, Giraffes & Genocide

Don’t get caught using logic!

Great stuff by The Thinking Atheist
Via: Atheist Media Blog

Posted February 7, 2010 with 0 Comments

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Merry Christmas

And Remember…

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Posted December 25, 2009 with 0 Comments

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Tour the known universe in 6 minutes

The AMNH has put together this amazing tour of the entire known universe based on the most up-to-date astronomical data. Every object is in its correct location, with proper scale and movement.

Here’s the full article to go with it.

Via: Pharyngula

Posted December 19, 2009 with 0 Comments

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Happy in Paraguay

I simply had to share this. Its a clip of Star Trek: TNG with, more or less, random words dubbed in that just happen to match up with people’s lips. I don’t know anything about Dayjob Orchestra’s music, but their spoof/parody videos are brilliant.

Check out their other similar videos here.

Via: io9

Posted December 7, 2009 with 0 Comments

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Nell McCafferty gives the church a piece of her mind

Nell McCafferty lashes out at the catholic church, questioning their continued use of titles like “Father”, “Your Grace” and “Lordship” in response to the Vatican’s cover-up of sexual abuse of children by catholic priests and how the reputation of the church was deemed more important than the welfare of children.

I love when she goes off on “What’s holy about the Vatican?” and “What’s holy about the Pope in this context?”

Via: Pharyngula

Posted November 28, 2009 with 0 Comments

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You only live one life

You only live one life and you make all your mistakes and learn what not to do and that’s the end of you. – Richard P. Feynman

Posted November 19, 2009 with 0 Comments

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Super powers: XKCD style

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They laugh now, but within 10 years the city’s entire criminal class will have quit to work on space research.

I didn’t post anything for Carl Sagan Day or his birthday. I’ve been a little busy lately with a couple of projects. XKCD does a great job as usual. It makes me wonder how many would-have-been criminals are actually working on space research because of Carl Sagan’s amazing influence.

Posted November 16, 2009 with 0 Comments

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Waiting to be known.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. – Carl Sagan

Posted November 11, 2009 with 0 Comments

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When Galaxies Collide

Felicia Day *swoon* (and Sean Astin) try to educate the public about colliding galaxies in this hilarious NASA PSA for the Spitzer Space Telescope.

There are a lot of great little inside jokes in there. “What in the name of Joss Whedon?” And Felicia makes a wonderful point:

It just goes to show you don’t have to make up explosions or doomsday scenarios to make science interesting. Astronomy is pretty interesting on its own.

Via: The Bad Astronomer

Posted October 26, 2009 with 0 Comments

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‘A Universe From Nothing’ by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009

This is a fantastic and entertaining talk by Lawrence Krauss from the 2009 Atheist Alliance International on current cosmology, the nature and ultimate fate of our universe.

Lawrence Krauss has been one of my favorite speakers since I watched his talk from the first Beyond Belief in 2005. It’s amazing how much information the man can pack into one lecture. My favorite line:

Why is there something rather than nothing? … There has to be. In quantum mechanics, if you have nothing, you’ll always get something.

Via: The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

Posted October 25, 2009 with 1 Comments

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The inconceivable nature of nature

But you gotta stop and think about it … to really get the pleasure about the complexity; the inconceivable nature of nature. – Richard Feynman

Posted October 25, 2009 with 0 Comments

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We Are All Connected

Symphony of Science has done it again. This time with appearances by Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye.

Check out their previous video, grab MP3 and FLAC files of the songs as well as video downloads at their website.

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Posted October 22, 2009 with 0 Comments

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Surrounded by ignorance

Just watch this… as the video progresses, try to NOT let your mouth hang open in disbelief.

Oh… My… God!  Now, I know many people are genuinely ignorant of things that don’t really affect them in their day-to-day lives. But really, America? This level of ignorance is just absurd. Apparently there are people living among us who don’t know how many sides a triangle has and don’t see something wrong on a map where the entire country of Australia is labeled “Iran” or “North Korea”.We also seem to have had THREE world wars and Hiroshima and Nagasaki are only famous for sumo wrestling.

Wow.

The Stupid, It Burns

Via: Unrelated TechCrunch post.

Posted October 18, 2009 with 0 Comments

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A Glorious Dawn

This is just chock full of awesomeness.

Via: Pharyngula

Posted September 25, 2009 with 1 Comments

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Bill Maher: Biblically Incorrect (Audio)

Posted September 10, 2009 with 1 Comments

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