The Philippines chief negotiator, Yeb Sano, opened the UN climate talks with an impassioned plea for urgent action, and announcing a hunger strike in solidarity for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
Beautiful:
I am presently reading an absolutely superb book by David Eagleman called Incognito: The book is a popular foray into psychology and neuroscience and synthesises a host of different studies into things brain. I wanted to just bring up a few fascinating studies which cast doubt upon the idea t
Surely both, that the star appeared and the wise men knew to follow it to find the baby Jesus, was a miracle. Can there be any doubt? So why did it lead them to Jerusalem, the wrong town -- and much worse -- to Herod, who only became aware of His rival after the wise men inquired about the new born
I came across this quote in response to someone posting my notes on fine-tuning on the Why Doesn't God Heal Amputees forum. I like it a lot: The biggest problem I find with the fine-tuned argument is that it is incompatible with dualism, and therefore Christianity.
John Loftus' new book features a chapter from yours truly. Here is the description he has in place for the forthcoming anthology: For the chapter titles and authors see here. Now for
In a new study, Dartmouth researchers rule out a controversial theory that the accelerating expansion of the universe is an illusion.
And while we're on You Tube... http://youtu.be/23Qpw54ylGc BOOM! Oh, and while you're at it, go to 2 minutes into this: http://youtu.be/9HG0yH6Jtp0
H/T to the thinker: http://youtu.be/XA64SX_52m8 And Morgan and Maher on guns, gay rights and marijuans: http://youtu.be/izSx3sOHO-M and an interesting piece on FOX news: http://youtu.
Say what you like about Brand, when he gets going, there ain't no stopping him. (Rather unspecified) Revolution! http://youtu.be/lLYcn3PuTTk
Author Gregg Caruso, who has written some really useful academic books on free will has a new project ont he go which looks fascinating. Check it out. Here is the email he sent me:
Watch the above video. (Then watch it again.) And then read the (unedited and uncorrected) description of this footage written by the organizers of this Muslim “peace conference”: