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Friday, January 15, 2010

There are a couple of interestingly-named wifi networks near where I live.

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

James Randi Lecture @ Caltech - Can’t Prove a Negative (via JamesRandiFoundation)

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

SuperFreakonomics: Geoengineering of Global Warming Fixes

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Maybe you’re afraid you don’t know enough about anything to trust the validity of your criticism. Putting aside the extremely small likelihood that this is actually true, it shouldn’t stop you. Developing your critical thinking skills necessarily involves applying your critical thinking skills to…your critical thinking skills. It’s recursively self-healing!

— Hypercritical - Ars Technica

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Monday, January 11, 2010

The Known Universe by AMNH (via AMNHorg)

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

NASA | Einstein’s Cosmic Speed Limit (via NASAexplorer and Phil Plait)

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Friday, January 8, 2010

…there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 [miles] flown. This distance is equivalent to 1,459,664 trips around the diameter of the Earth, 24,218 round trips to the Moon, or two round trips to Neptune.

— FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror (via John Gruber)

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Richard Dawkins Foundation - 2009 Fundraiser (via richarddawkinsdotnet)

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Terry Pratchett on Religion - ‘I’d Rather Be a Rising Ape Than a Fallen Angel’ (via AtheistPlanetBlog and PZ Myers)

Favourite quotes:

“If this is true, we are in the hands of a maniac.”

“God help me if I ever become a Christian.”

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