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Time: The History and Future of Everything

I know my Atheist Advent series of technically over but I’ll share one final video I had bookmarked that I thought addressed one specific issue really well, namely that a big part of the reason that human are religious is that we simply fail to grasp the time scales involved in things like evolution and […]

Posted 26 December 2013 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 17 – God Is Love

Just kidding…he’s kind of an evil asshole:

Posted 17 December 2013 § Censorship § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 15 – Christopher Hitchens RIP

Amazing man. Watch this…

Posted 15 December 2013 § Politics § UK § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 14 – How Tigers Got Their Stripes – Science vs. Religion

One of my big problems with religion is that it demonstrably makes people more gullible – about east Indian call centres telling you that your computer has a virus and psychics charging $0.99/minute and even the “official” word you hear on the evening news and in the daily newspaper. Because if you believe the Bible’s […]

Posted 14 December 2013 § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 9 – Music Monday – “You only need to pray in a particular spot/To a particular version of a particular god/And if you pull that off without a hitch/He will fix one eye of one middle-class white bitch”

This story of Sam’s has but a single explanation: a surgical God who digs on magic explanations. It couldn’t be mistaken attribution of causation, born of a coincidental temporal correlation, exacerbated by a general lack of education vis-a-vis physics in Sam’s parish congregation. And it couldn’t be that all these pious people are liars. It […]

Posted 09 December 2013 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 7 – Is “Faith” Just Another Way To Say “Pretending Really Hard”?

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Posted 07 December 2013 § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 6 – Are Religions Unfair To Women?

It’s a long documentary so let’s just say the short answer (at least in my view) is: yes! Given what day it is today, I can’t help but think about the fourteen female engineering students killed twenty-four years ago today. They weren’t murdered for religious reasons. But as part of my thoughts on this sad day […]

Posted 06 December 2013 § Canada § MemoryLane § Sasha § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Wikipedia’s List of Emerging Technologies

Covering all kinds of sectors from energy to manufacturing to health and more.  Fascinating glimpse at the near future.

Posted 08 November 2013 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – The Taxonomy of Brewing: 500 Beers on One Ridiculous Chart

Yes, please!

Posted 11 October 2013 § FridayFunLink § Infographic ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The Story Behind the Development of the First iPhone

This in-depth look at the behind-the-scenes developments that led to the creation of the first iPhone is filled with all kinds of stories of innovation on a tightrope. It’s positively shocking how close the first iPhone launch (with a demo product that was apparently held together by duct tape and wishes!) came to being a […]

Posted 06 October 2013 § MemoryLane § Technology § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,