I love egg and cheese sandwiches in the morning. Every once and a while I go to my local diner and order one takeout. I never stay there to eat egg and cheese sandwiches but in the past I have gone there as frequently as once a week to eat dinner with a friend. But when I stop in for just the egg sandwich I always spend every last second in the diner in a mental war with myself over… Read more
The Mother Teresa Debate
July 29, 2009 By Daniel Fincke
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David Byrne On U2’s Excesses
July 29, 2009 By Daniel Fincke
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Via Pitchfork comes David Byrne musing on the uneasy symbiotic relationship between commercialistic pop art and pop art with artistic pretensions through which the big sell out acts make possible investment in the smaller ones which retain some credibility. A parallel situation can be found in the film industry where low budget indies are made possible by big budget mind-numbers. Thank You U2! Mark E pointed out as we prepped for our show last night in Warsaw (at a not… Read more
Linking Color and Shape
July 29, 2009 By Daniel Fincke
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A fascinating study seeks to explain why young children use the “wrong” colors for various objects when they color: Young children may colour trees blue or grass red because their memories can’t “bind” together the colour and shape of an object. Because the brain stores colour and shape in different groups of neurons, Vanessa Simmering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison suspected that young children have not yet developed the ability to link the information stored in each. Read more
Aaron Jentzen, “Great Inventors” and “Magnetic West”
July 29, 2009 By Daniel Fincke
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I wholeheartedly recommend you go to Aaron Jentzen’s reverbnation page by clicking here if you love “elegaic baritone” (as his webpage puts it). He reminds me of everything I love about Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, and Matt Berninger (lead singer of The National). And similar as his voice is in general style to these guys’ it’s still got a distinctive spectacularness that makes him a must-listen in his own right. His overall sound to my ears is closer to The… Read more
Lenin, Mao, and the Enlightenment
July 29, 2009 By Daniel Fincke
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Andrew Stuttaford debunks John Gray’s charges that Mao and Lenin were “disciples of an Enlightenment ideology”. First Gray: Equating fundamentalism with terrorism is loose thinking, but the biggest drawback is the loss of historical memory that making the parallel entails. Much of the state terror in the past century was secular, not religious. Lenin and Mao were avowed disciples of an Enlightenment ideology. Some will object that they misapplied this. And yet it is a feature of the fundamentalist mindset… Read more
The First “‘Nuff Said” Award
July 29, 2009 By Daniel Fincke
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I love posters who disagree with me and through doing so open up whole new questions and angles to pursue, so everybody please keep your thoughtful and insightful challenges and contrasting opinions rolling in in the comments section. But every now and then there’s a different delight reading your comments and that’s the one that comes from a comment I agree with completely and can only reply with a tip of the hat and the words “’nuff said.” Yesterday I… Read more
In Praise Of Public Schooling
July 29, 2009 By Daniel Fincke
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In reply to this post in which I contrasted my experience as an Evangelical in public high school in the secular northeast to a midwestern girl’s struggles to be an atheist in high school in the midwest, Dave Smith, Camels With Hammers’ trusty webmaster and blogger, writes: Maybe, as you mentioned, it was because I grew up in the northeast, but I had a similar experience in high school. To be honest I don’t know anyone else in my class… Read more
The Coming Clash At The Creationist Museum
July 29, 2009 By Daniel Fincke
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On August 7, biologist, anti-creationist, activist atheist and blogger-extraordinaire PZ Myers will be headlining a massive convergence of secular evolutionist atheists (including a large contingent from the Secular Student Alliance) upon Ken Ham’s infamous “Creation Museum”. Myers and the Secular Student Alliance have been promoting participation in the big visit for weeks and yesterday, Myers posted a letter from the museum warning him that they have been reading his website and taken note of many of his readers’ gleeful musings… Read more
Psychotic Reasoning, The Will To Believe, And Religious Interpretations Of The Mentally Ill
July 29, 2009 By Daniel Fincke
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Yesterday morning, The Friendly Atheist’s Hemant Mehta analyzed stories of mothers who murdered their babies under religiously interpreted delusions with a critical eye towards the religions which put certain fantasies in their heads. In reply to criticisms of his making this connection that came from skeptigirl (in this terrific post on psychosis you should read), from numerous really well-informed people you should read in The Friendly Atheist comments section, and from me, Hemant was big enough to take responsibility and… Read more
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