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Pope Says Using Paper & Plastic A Sin
If you're a Christian, what do you suppose is the most pressing problem in the world today? The rapid fading of Christianity in the West? The dramatic increase in, and…
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New York Times Is Looking For A Climate Change Editor. That’s Me!
Dean Baquet and Sam Dolnick New York Times New York, NY Re: Climate Change Editor Dear Misters Baquet and Dolnick, Please accept my application for the position of Climate Change…
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Stream: President Obama Once Again Imagines He Will Save The World
Today's post is at The Stream: President Obama Once Again Imagines He Will Saves The World. On his inauguration---perhaps apotheosis is a better word---President Obama said that the world would…
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There Is No Scientific Method
Title is lifted---swiped, stolen, nicked: a point to emphasize---from an essay in what Father Z rightfully calls Hell's Bible by one James Blachowicz. Turns out old Willy S was right,…
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Number 1 Book In Epistemology & In Logic! Get It While It’s Hot!
It's probably gone by now, but for a little while my new book, Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, was "#1 New Release in Epistemology" then "#1 New…
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Rampant Harassment by Atheists Expected At Reason Rally 2016
The Angry Atheists are meeting today, this time in DC, and evidently they're expecting an uppity crowd, because their Code of Conduct for Reason Rally warns of a host of…
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This Week In Doom — WMBriggs Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIveP1SEZjs Dall'Abaco concerto The week of the worst that was, in aural form, featuring the music of Giuseppe Torelli and Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco. Torelli trumpet concerto Because they can, and…
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Are We Smart Enough To Know What Intelligence Is? — WMBriggs Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exQZDW7KN5w Aaron Neville: You're So Smart Michio Kaku on the Evolution of Intelligence That was Michio Kaku on intelligence, getting some things right, some wrong. Let's focus on what he…