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2012-02-13T00:00:00-08:00

Darwin Correspondence Project
On this site you can read and search the full texts of more than 7,000 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and ﬁnd information on 8,000 more. Available here are complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1868. More are being added all the time.
Discrimination Is Ok If You’re Religious
So you can be fired for pursuing discrimination claims in court, because not following the Church’s rules to keep everything under wraps violates the First Amendment. I do not see any possibility of this turning out poorly for anyone.
Snake or Fake? | Features | Fortean Times
Alexander is described as tall, long-haired and good-looking, and Lucian accuses him of prostitution as a youth, through which he became apprenticed to a doctor and magician, apparently taught by the Pythagorean philosopher and wonder-worker Apollonius of Tyana (early 1st century–c. AD 98).
Evolution is written all over your face / UCLA Newsroom
UCLA biologists working as "evolutionary detectives" studied the faces of 129 adult male primates from Central and South America, and they offer some answers in research published today, Jan. 11, in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The faces they studied evolved over at least 24 million years, they report.
Anonymous strikes back after feds shut piracy hub Megaupload - CNN.com
"Hacktivist" collective Anonymous on Thursday took credit for taking down U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and entertainment company websites, following arrests in one of the federal government's largest anti-piracy crackdowns. Federal agents earlier in the day arrested the leaders of Megaupload.com and shut down the popular hub for illegal media downloads.
Crossing a Watershed, Unawares - NYTimes.com
At the time, very few contemporaries sense that they have entered a new era, unless of course the world is coming out of a cataclysmic war, like the Napoleonic wars or World War II. But such abrupt historical transformations are not the focus of this article. My interest is in the slow buildup of forces for change, mainly invisible, almost always unpredictable, that sooner or later will turn one age into another.
The making of gay marriage’s top foe - Salon.com
Gallagher’s earliest acquaintances at Yale remember a somewhat sheltered young woman, polite and likable, a bit startled by what she saw. One of the freshmen who shared Gallagher’s suite of rooms, Bird Jensen, now a musician in Australia, remembers Gallagher as “a born-again Christian” — which Gallagher was not, but the mistake is telling. She remembers Gallagher, who after all was from a progressive, metropolitan area, as if she were from a small town in the middle of the plains.
Paula Deen, change your diet - CNN.com
What a shame! Like many people, Deen has genes that predispose to weight gain, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes when physical activity is insufficient and calories are consumed in excess, especially from quick-digesting carbohydrate foods that cause spikes of blood sugar. Type 2 diabetes is a serious condition that greatly increases risks of cardiovascular disease, disability and premature death. The good news is that many, if not most, cases can be put into remission through lifestyle changes: losing weight, increasing activity and adhering to a low-glycemic-load diet, especially minimizing consumption of flour and sugar.

Paula Dean Exemplifies the Problems with Healthcare in the U.S.

2012-02-12T21:36:27-05:00

Not surprisingly, Paula Dean has Type II Diabetes. The woman famous for her unhealthy “cuisine” developed a life threatening, preventable condition that results solely from an unhealthy diet. She is not the first celebrity chef to be overweight or suffer...

The Fireplace Dilusion

2012-02-12T20:50:24-05:00

I absolutely LOVE this article from Steve Harris so I am posting it in its entirety. The Fireplace Delusion: A Metaphor for Religious Belief Why do we still have fires despite their obvious harm to our health and the environment?...

Links for 2012-01-26 [del.icio.us]

2012-01-27T00:00:00-08:00

Cool Video of the Solar Storm
The actual sun is blocked by a circle so you can see the flares as they come out.
5 Scientific Reasons People Act Like Assholes | Cracked.com
This is pretty cool... now I have scientific validation of my asshole theory.

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2012-01-23T00:00:00-08:00

Gang Kill Lonely Obese People, Sell Their Fat For Cosmetics
Powerful abacus. [VIDEO]
Gabriel Hudson
Call Off the Global Drug War - NYTimes.com
The report describes the total failure of the present global antidrug effort, and in particular America’s “war on drugs,” which was declared 40 years ago today. It notes that the global consumption of opiates has increased 34.5 percent, cocaine 27 percent and cannabis 8.5 percent from 1998 to 2008. Its primary recommendations are to substitute treatment for imprisonment for people who use drugs but do no harm to others, and to concentrate more coordinated international effort on combating violent criminal organizations rather than nonviolent, low-level offenders.

Using Nutrition to Cure Disease

2012-01-23T00:30:48-05:00

Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her wheelchair.

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2012-01-15T00:00:00-08:00

Savage Love by Dan Savage - Seattle Columns - Savage Love - Dan Savage - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
Don't thank me, JIW. Thank Rick Santorum for making his bigotry crystal clear in a 2003 interview with the Associated Press.

Links for 2012-01-03 [del.icio.us]

2012-01-04T00:00:00-08:00

My Take: Let Lennon be Lennon and forget Cee Lo Green – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
New Year’s Eve is usually truce time in the culture wars — a moment to reflect and hope and forget your troubles (and the world’s). Not so on Saturday night, when Cee Lo Green changed the lyrics to John Lennon’s “Imagine” while performing the song on live television in New York’s Time Square.

Links for 2012-01-02 [del.icio.us]

2012-01-03T00:00:00-08:00

NASA - Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct analysis of salt-rich ice grains close to the jets ejected from the moon.

Links for 2011-12-17 [del.icio.us]

2011-12-18T00:00:00-08:00

My Take: An evangelical remembers his friend Hitchens – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
This is a great article about Chris Hitchens