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Rob Lyons, author of Panic on a Plate: How Society Developed an Eating Disorder discusses the unjustified anxiety present in society around the topic of food.

Dr Dimitar Kazakov from the University of York presents an introduction to the general principles of artificial intelligence.

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Talk by Dr Neil Cooper from the University of Bradford.

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Not much was known about a single-stranded RNA virus called Norwalk-like virus (after an outbreak of gastroenteritis in Norwalk, Ohio in 1968) about 20 years ago, other than that it was able to cause a diarrhoeal illness. We call this … Continue reading →

Post by Phil Ferguson —————————– via The Financial Times. In large parts of America, atheists hide in plain site.  They are afraid to let any one know.  I spent 2 years in Arkansas and if you got about 5 outside of the big towns it was all about jesus. Point, Texas (pop. 792) is not [...]

Norway: Brainwashed Science on TV Creates Storm, 2010

What Eia had done, was to first interview the Norwegian social scientists on issues like sexual orientation, gender roles, violence, education and race, which are heavily politicized in the Norwegian science community. Then he translated the interviews into English and took them to well-known British and American scientists like Robert Plomin, Steven Pinker, Anne Campbell, Simon Baron-Cohen, Richard Lippa, David Buss, and others, and got their comments. To say that the American and British scientists were surprised by what they heard, is an understatement.

All 7 episodes (with English subtitles):

1) Gender equality

2) The Parental Effect

3) Gay/Straight

4) Violence

5) Sex

6) Race

7) Nature Vs Nurture

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They just said “shit” during the Super Bowl halftime show. Tee hee.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5721082653718997788-5667073445586616499?l=anythingbuttheist.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>

Peter Gleick has a simple useful article in Forbes illustrating various ways that climate change deniers/contrariness cherry pick data to support claims that global warming is not occurring (see “Global Warming Has Stopped”? How to Fool People Using “Cherry-Picked” Climate … Continue reading →

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Peter Gleick has a simple useful article in Forbes illustrating various ways that climate change deniers/contrariness cherry pick data to support claims that global warming is not occurring (see “Global Warming Has Stopped”? How to Fool People Using “Cherry-Picked” Climate Data). He is referring to an increasingly common argument that deniers/contrarians are promoting in OpEd columns and opinion pieces in newspapers. We have seen it here too, and the comments at New Zealand’s premium climate change denier blog Climate Conversation Group are full of such claims.

Recently I dealt with that argument as expressed by an old colleague of mine in a letter to the NZ Listener (see Open letter across the barricade). In the “open letter’ I reconstructed my own example of how global temperature data can be cherry picked to promote the “global warming has stopped” myth. But I had in the back of my mid  an animated graph which showed this more clearly.  Now I have found it – and reproduce it below. It’s from Skeptical Science (a mine of information) and is usually referred to as The Escalator.

I think this demonstrates the dishonesty of cherry-picking beautifully. Mind you, it doesn’t stop motivated deniers and bloggers picking up these dishonest articles and promoting them to similarly motivated reader. Have a look at Local Whale Oil’s “No Need to Panic About Global Warming.” A classic example of the activity that goes on in the climate change denier echo chamber. Similar articles

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Here’s a terrific music video with an even better message: Support marriage equality. The band, Bye June, conveys the message via shadow puppets and swans. The obstacle to the swans’ love? Not a surprise… The lead singer/songwriter, Gil Kline, said … Continue reading →

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<a href="http://embiggenbooks.com/blog/?p=1363">The video of my talk is now available</a> on the Embiggen Books site.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24761391-2219295968739057733?l=metamagician3000.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>

I started a thread on Google Plus about a video “Shit Christians Say to Atheists“, which is fun to watch but, …

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