The University of California-Davis has a new religious discrimination policy, according to which ONLY Christians can be accused of discriminating against other religions, and discrimination AGAINST Christians does not count: The UC-Davis policy defines “Religious/Spiritual Discrimination” as “the loss of power and privilege to those
In light of the radioactive banana post, what are some other weird facts that can be found on Wikipedia?
25,000 protesters are in the streets in Madison and 40% of Wisconsin teachers have called in sick, forcing cancellation of schools, as new Republican governor Scott Walker is getting pushback for his proposal to limit collective bargaining by unions for public employees and to cut
As a literature professor, I just hate CliffsNotes and their ilk. Reading isolated facts about a book is not the same thing as reading a book. I consider using CliffsNotes instead of reading the assignment as cheating. But now CliffsNotes are evidently considered too
Thanks to Webmonk for alerting me to this interesting fact cited at the blog Watts Up With That, which quotes from Wikipedia: A banana equivalent dose is a concept occasionally used by nuclear power proponents[1][2] to place in scale the dangers of radiation by comparing
The rest of the story on recent posts. . . . The computer named Watson ended up wiping the floor with the human used-to-be champions on Jeopardy. The human race is evidently doomed. So if Watson is smarter than people, should we elect him president?
Science Daily has a story about “the world’s total technological capacity — how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute.” It cites some unimaginably big numbers. But what was most striking is this last sentence: Looking at both digital memory and analog
I am happy to report that Anthony Sacramone, once of Luther at the Movies, is back from his blogging hiatus and is posting again at Strange Herring. Amidst his wry observations, humorous rants, and theological zingers, he will post thoughtful meditations and perceptive film criticism.
I’ve been posting on the Singularity hypothesis and have already alluded to this big story in Time Magazine. It’s worth reading as perhaps a foretaste of an emerging secular religion, one that will solve all of our problems and bring us everlasting life. A sample:
Wouldn’t that just be humanity’s luck? An asteroid hits earth and wipes out the human race just 9 years before the Singularity comes to pass and we all would have been made immortal. From AOL News: Not to alarm you, but Russian scientists estimate Earth
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