- A particularly spectacular bit of the world I’ve just seen for the first time Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
- Via Jerry Coyne, an unintentionally accurate German ad for the Quran
- Natalie Reed on trigger warnings, their philosophy, use, misuse and abuse.
- What’s it like to be an Orthodox Jewish teenager trying to date another Orthodox teenager?
- It’s not just cranks who have an interpretation of quantum mechanics that suggests the answer is “consciousness!” and “God!”. But I was particularly sad to see this peddled by a professor of physics to defend his faith. Details and a smackdown by Sean Carroll here.
- Good post about how geek culture is now so mainstream that it’s ridiculous that so many people in it continue to hold up the idea of being a persecuted outsider as a core aspect of their cultural identity.
- Why are you closed-minded people so hostile to my Christian arguments about the evils of homosexuality? Why must you persecute me for daring to voice a politically incorrect opinion? Why can’t we have free speech, what are you so afraid of? The marvellous Zinnia Jones deals this this line of “argument”.
0 Comments