This super-abridged Bible project is taking up most of my blogging timeslot so posts may be sparser since each book takes longer to prepare. But I shan’t miss a link dump!
- 20 actual scienticians’ studies on religion
- It’s 1 year since the Haiti earthquake. Hundreds of thousands live in camps where there’s an epidemic of anarchy, violence and gang-rape (including rape of children)
- Here’s a hilarious Conservapedia article that’s been making the rounds: Atheism and Obesity
- I just found out this old fact: 20% of all people in Mauritania are enslaved.
- Wonderful: “The Canada Customs agent in the Toronto airport asked me what we were doing in Canada for forty-eight hours. I told her we were going to a concert. ‘Leonard Cohen?’ the customs agent asked.”
- PZ Myers does a wonderful takedown (as usual) of the latest media hype about conservative vs liberal brains/genes/MRIs.
- “Wikileaks was going to sue The Guardian over a leak, because Assange believed he owned the content which had been leaked to him.” [Source]
- Great animation on a little-known fact: humans can’t travel in straight lines if their lives depended on it
- Good analysis of the Arizona shooting, mental illness and responsibility
- To finish with: good news “Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as ‘shields’ to Egypt’s threatened Christian community”
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