by Carl Howard | Jul 2, 2010 | Blog Topics, Links
“Across the Sahel region, an estimated 10 million people are at risk of famine…WFP is $22 million short of the $124 million it needs to purchase 113,000 mt of food for Niger…’”we estimate our needs at 100,000 tonnes of cereals. So far, we have received...
by Carl Howard | Jul 1, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
The next few chapters contain some of the most advanced story-telling in the Bible, something worthy of authors paying attention. And I do mean story-telling. From my Completely UnbiasedTM reading, the odds of these having any kind of historical basis (even if David...
by Carl Howard | Jun 22, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Advice on Scheming Now that David is properly fleeing from Saul, he concocts an interesting plan with Jonathan. Part one of the plan: David is absent from two consecutive dinners at Saul’s household. The first night Saul, thinks David’s just “unclean” from a seminal...
by Carl Howard | Jun 16, 2010 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Science and Skepticism
About 8 months ago I did a post about World Food Day where I mentioned microfinance (especially Kiva.org) as a great way of doing more useful things with donor funds. Skeptical fail: I applied an abysmal level of critical thinking to the area of charities/development....
by Carl Howard | Jun 15, 2010 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy
[This post is a follow-up to my 5 min challenge to readers I posted last week. To get the most out of it, please do the challenge first.] In the last post, I presented a disturbing video of cow/calf abuse at a dairy farm. The context was not to see it in terms of...
by Carl Howard | Jun 8, 2010 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy
The 5 min challenge that I would like everyone to take is to watch this video in its entirety and note your reactions. It’s only about 3.5 mins long so not a burden. But, do not switch tabs or open any windows, just give it your full attention: YouTube link...
