January 2010
“I’ve got a suspicion that online search engines are making us especially...”
– Rationally Speaking
If you all had to pick one argument or one point...
freethinkersalon:
Topic submitted by NeightKelly
Please reblog and post your response below.
Personally, I think this question is inflammatory, oversimplisitc and impies that Creationism CAN be disproved when it’s likely a matter of faith, one definition of which is:
Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence
So a discussion of the observed evidence supporting...
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“Americans love their shrimp. It’s the most popular seafood in the country, but...”
– Shrimp’s Dirty Secrets: Why America’s Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare | Food | AlterNet (via ontologicalterrorist)
Right. Whilst a lot of what’s listed in that article IS fair comment, the statement:
“Worse, guidelines for finding some kind of “sustainable...
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“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury (via booklover)
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“I taking a sea bath, I gone down the road.
I know these islands from Monos to...”
– The Schooner ‘Flight’ by Derek Walcott
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tumblr. wtf?
ontologicalterrorist:
constantflux:
..makes me wonder why people randomly leave…
especially when it doesn’t tell you who has left.
Man, you could care less? If they’re gone, they’re gone… What gives?
“The sun goes up
and the sun gets down
but like the heart of the sun
my heart...”
– Anthony Kiedis, Behind the Sun.
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Rationally Speaking: The rotting of American... →
“here is some of what is seriously wrong with American democracy and how to fix it.”
This is really good. I’m tempted to email Massimo and ask him about some of these issues, and especially what would class as ‘The Best’ democracy. (Clearly it’s not the UK either!) In fact it would be a worthy exercise to run this list up for the UK too….
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Engineered maize toxicity claims roundly rebuffed... →
MONSANTO, the giant of genetically modified crops, has for the first time been forced to release raw data from toxicology studies it carried out on three strains of its modified maize. An external analysis of the data claims it shows that eating the maize could result in damage to the liver and kidneys, but this has been dismissed as unsupportable by a government agency and independent...
A victory for science-based medicine →
“this case is a major victory for those who favor free speech and the role it plays in science. It highlights the desperation of those whose cult-like beliefs are being discarded by the reality-based community. As the foundations of their beliefs rot, they cling to the hope that the law will save them from the onslaught of science. But they are likely to discover a painful fact: just as you...
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