Religion, Politics, and Crazy People

I may yet need to write a longer post about this very topic because the title hints at a potentially rich essay, but in the meantime this will fill the need nicely.

Rubik’s Cube Meets The Lego/Android Master

This is some sweet Lego/Android badassery.

Occupy Wall Street: Outing the Ringers

It takes a minute before he starts making points, but good points he does make.

Halloween and the Exploding Brains of Evangelicals

Nothing, and I mean nothing, seems to work evangelicals up into a lather like Halloween.

Ignore that the holiday is rooted in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts.  Forget that it’s now just a secular bit of fun where kids can dress up, eat some candy and enjoy the last little bit of fall before the long cold winter takes hold.

No, evangelicals think that everyone is celebrating Satan and surrendering their souls to the dark lord in exchange for candy corn.  So much fear and panic has set in for them that they have now decided to try and rename the holiday…wait for it…

JesusWeen.

Honetly, they just take the sport out of making fun of them when they do it so well themselves.

The Biblical Moral Dilemma

Tea Party History Lesson

The Skin Gun, It’s Not Science Fiction

This is so fantastic I can barely grasp the good this technology will do and how much it will improve the lives of burn victims.  In the video they show a prototype medical device that literally sprays skin cells onto burn victims to re-grow skin. Old methods like skin grafts took weeks to heal; the skin gun needs about an hour.

Though it is still technically in an experimental stage, the skin gun has already successfully treated over a dozen burn victims.

The video has some graphic burn images, so don’t watch unless you have the stomach for it.

What’s Wrong With Blasphemy?

Much more serious than I had anticipated.  Good stuff.

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Science Under Attack

…or trust no one, only the data.  If you have the time I highly recommend giving this a viewing.

Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded – from the theory that man-made climate change is warming our planet, to the safety of GM food, or that HIV causes AIDS.

Of course if you don’t have the time the video could be summarized with this:

(The graph here shows data from the COBE mission, which looked at the background microwave glow of the universe and found that it fit perfectly with the idea that the universe used to be really hot everywhere. This strongly reinforced the Big Bang theory and was one of the most dramatic examples of an experiment agreeing with a theory in history — the data points fit perfectly, with error bars too small to draw on the graph. It’s one of the most triumphant scientific results in history.)

Christ And The Cross?

It could have been worse I suppose.  What if they had hung him or used a guillotine?