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Happy Darwin Day
2 hours ago
by thrdr
Today is Uncle Charlie’s birthday. Darwin would have been two hundred and three years old, had evolution endowed us hominids with longevity exceeding that even of Galápagos tortoises (a. k. a. Chelonoidis nigra). But the influence of Darwin’s science lives on, as does the effort by scientists, skept ...
T h e R e a d e r - thrdr.wordpress.com
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Who’s the Mysterymonger?
23 hours ago
by frmarkdwhite
Our first reading and gospel reading both refer to ceremonies performed by priests. Thank God, none of us suffer from leprosy. But, nonetheless, we go to church to participate in a ceremony performed by a priest, to take part in the “sacred mysteries” of the Mass. Remember our friend the atheist deb ...
Devil, Does Your Dog Bite? - frmarkdwhite.wordpress.com · Rank: 109,689 ·  17 references
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Germany in skeptical turmoil on both Climate and Solar/Windfarms
1 day ago
by honestclimate
Germany in skeptical turmoil on both Climate and Solar/Windfarms Watts Up With That? February 6, 2012 I have two major stories out of Germany to report, one on the rise of Climate Skepticism into the mainstream, as Germany’s Top Environmentalist Turns Climate Sceptic, saying “I couldn’t take it any ...
An Honest Climate Debate - anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com · Rank: 50,592 · 172 references
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Why People Don’t Accept “Traditional” Roles
1 day ago
by dissention
Recently, Ferdinand Bardamu wrote a post about how sex with his current “girlfriend” felt somewhat empty. It can be summarized as- He does not mind fucking her, but does not see any future with her. The comments to his post are full of a wide range of religious nutcases opining that he should not gi ...
Playing the Devil's Advocate - dissention.wordpress.com · Rank: 91,940 · 38 references
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Greece Struggles to Overcome Mistrust
1 day ago
by nytimes
BRUSSELS — At the same meeting where Greece’s latest economic plans were greeted with blunt skepticism, a television microphone accidentally recorded a very different exchange between a minister from Germany and a colleague from another bailout recipient, Portugal. If Lisbon, which faces an austerit ...
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Why Protecting Legacy is Important.
2 days ago
by chefcrsh
One of the strange oddities about the vehemence hurled at both my minor comments and my person on the Bertrand Russell page, was that during the chest thumping, no one bothered to ask, why I was concerned with what is … Continue reading →
A Chef At Large - achefatlarge.com/blog
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Stuff That’s Too Weird To Be True Often Isn’t
2 days ago
by Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
From time to time I see a story on the news or in social media that seems so startling and off-the-wall that I ask myself, “Did that really happen?” And, more often than you might expect, I take a closer look and find that the answer is that it didn’t. Such was the case with an eye-catching headline ...
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