by Carl Howard | Dec 16, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible, Feminism and LGBT
A story has made it to the news cycle about a week ago about an Afghan woman who is marrying the man who raped her. Via MSNBC: Gulnaz, who uses one name, has been in an Afghan prison cell for about two years. She says she only has one choice if she wants to bring...
by Carl Howard | Dec 9, 2011 | Blog Topics, Links
A special edition today — some of my favourite dating messages showing various levels of misogyny, cluelessness, creepyness, pretentiousness and/or entitlement (or all 4!), mostly from The Annals of Online Dating Tumblr. I’ve excerpted some favourite bits but you...
by Carl Howard | Dec 8, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Race, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
t’s recently come up in a Facebook discussion that I don’t think the idea of a “Third World” has much merit. I’ve posted on this briefly a few years ago but I hope I’ve learnt a thing or two since then! Just to get things clear, there are definitions of First/Third...
by Carl Howard | Nov 28, 2011 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy
The question of definitions (what is an atheist vs agnostic) and all that nonsense have been popping up again. Especially the recent exchange between Larry Moran (here, here and here) and John Wilkins (here, here, here). Before I post on this I thought it might be...
by Carl Howard | Nov 14, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
A quick follow-up to last week’s post about the dancing squid. An interesting related post was made on the Seed of Reason blog in 2009. The post speaks of the danger of basing too much of our conclusions about the lives of animals on direct observation — which I would...
by Carl Howard | Nov 7, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Science and Skepticism
You might have seen this video making the rounds a few months ago. It’s of a whole (small) squid on a bowl of rice in presumably a Japanese restaurant. The diner pours soy sauce over the squid and it starts to wriggle around coming alive. My first impression of the...
