Perusable blogaliciousness for your Friday morning:
The Hairy Museum of Natural History has put out a call for submissions to the Tangled Bank, with an early deadline. If you want a shot at maybe seeing your link with a custom illustration, send it in by Sunday evening. He’ll try to accept stuff up through Tuesday, but make life easy on the guy, OK?
There are plenty of outspoken atheists in the United States—read the latest Carnival of the Godless #48 for a small sampling—but you can still find many mainstream journalists writing about them as if they were peculiar aliens living under a log with other unsavory and oddly constructed organisms. Today, it’s Newsweek that exclaims in surprise that there are godless people among us.
It’s not a very deep or thoughtful article, and what I found most noticeable about it is the obliviousness of the author. Here’s how it starts:
Americans answered the atrocities of September 11, overwhelmingly, with faith. Attacked in the name of God, they turned to God for comfort; in the week after the attacks, nearly 70 percent said they were praying more than usual. Confronted by a hatred that seemed inexplicable, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson proclaimed that God was mad at America because it harbored feminists, gays and civil libertarians.
We have another bumper crop of carnivals this week:
The latest edition of the biweekly compendium of science blogging, the Tangled Bank, is now available for your reading enjoyment at Epigenetics News.
Here’s a little Friday reading:
Also don’t forget to send in those links for Tangled Bank #61 to pzmyers@pharyngula.org, host@tangledbank.net, or Epigenetics News.
Hrrrm-hah. Well. The FrinkTank has delivered a little addendum to the last Tangled Bank. Sneaky. You knew those guys couldn’t possibly do everything conventionally.
Meanwhile, Tangled Bank #61 will be appearing at Epigenetics News next Wednesday. Send in those links!
These things are just sneaking up on me today: the Synapse #5 is out.
Are there any more carnivals lurking out there today?
I neglected to include the latest carnival of Animalcules in my last round up. In my defense, though, I will say that they are very, very tiny and easy to miss.
The latest in Pharyngula-approved carnivals:
Now, open that thread and sing!
