I think. I don’t know how much leg-chewing goes on when I’m not looking, anyway. I ran across this account of DefCon, the hacker conference, and was impressed at how close it sounds to some of our atheist/skeptic conferences…only worse. For anyone who wasn’t able to immediately find a female Defcon attendee, I will let …
Monthly Archive: July 2012
Jul 30 2012
That kind of wording scares me
There has been a new outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. This kind of stuff worries me, not in acute “oh-we’re-all-going-to-die-now” sort of way, but in a long term perspective. We’re all sitting here fat and happy and swarming, and what’s going to wipe out this species some day is a combination of resource depletion and …
Jul 30 2012
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: menial work in natty attire
I do all my work at a desk — I’m not hauling mud! — and I don’t look this good. (via Entomolog)
Jul 30 2012
I’d read that
Heina Dadabhoy has kickstarter project to write A Skeptic’s Guide to Islam. It sounds like someone is making a smart decision to write to their strengths: There are plenty of positive books about Islam by Muslims. There are many positive books on Islam by non-Muslims. There are more negative books on Islam by non-Muslims than …
Jul 30 2012
Why I am an atheist – Fay
I’m an atheist because I could no longer continue to do mental gymnastics. I kept arguing with my own mind, trying to convince myself that the faith that my parents followed, was the only true way. Eventually I had to look myself in the mirror and admit I saw things differently. No, I was not …
Jul 29 2012
A modest proposal
A typical American school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with reading and writing. We ought to face reality: most of these students might graduate, but they’ll never crack another book in their life, the bulk of their written communications skills require nothing more than their thumbs …
Jul 29 2012
Is there a way to impeach Scalia?
That man is a dangerous lunatic. He’s got a theological dedication to insisting that the US must be run exclusively by the 18th century principles of the Founding Fathers — even when he’s willing to consider limitations on the ownership of weapons, he gives it an unbelievable twist. The justice explained that under his principle …
Jul 29 2012
Growth
Since I’m already receiving angry accusations that I ‘pressured’ Cristina Rad into becoming a radfem or something similarly silly, I will just point out the fact that I have no power over her other than as one host of several on a blogging network, that the financial incentives in this business are not compelling enough …
Jul 29 2012
Another conversion story
Richard Muller used to be a doubter — he didn’t think global warming was a concern, and he didn’t think people were responsible for it. Now he has changed his mind, and he explains why. Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw …
Jul 29 2012
Lawyers and atheists
We both have something in common — we both tend to get vilified regularly, although I have to admit, lawyers have it worse — there isn’t a whole category of atheist jokes where the punch line is always something about how they have to die horribly. So I feel it’s only fair to acknowledge that …
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