Daily Archives: October 18, 2009

Daniel Dennett: the Vanquisher of “Deepity” Religion—and Poetry?

The Daniel Dennett deepity slide that Jerry Coyne took a picture of here is one that I wrote into my notebook (I was at the same conference). A deepity, according to Dennett, “is a proposition that seems to be profound … Continue reading

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Lindsey Graham Meets the Revolutionaries (That He Helped Create)

What hath the Republican Party created? Now not even Lindsey Graham is conservative enough for the teabagging purist revolutionaries! It’s delicious to see a longtime road warrior of the religious right rolled over (however briefly) by the tires of the very reactionary populist movement that … Continue reading

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Whoa Mule, Whoa!

I ain’t got time to kiss you now, the mule is run away! According to the video poster at YouTube, this song was played “under the trees next to the Conestoga river. Lancaster County Park PA. August 2 2008.” Nicely … Continue reading

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An Interesting BBC Documentary on God

This looks good, and it’s hosted by a British scientist (Lord Robert Winston). Winston wrote a children’s book on evolution, and also claims to believe in God (whatever that means). In any case, here’s part 1 of 18:

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The New Prometheuses? Are Physicists on the Verge of Stealing the Secrets of the “God Particle” (the Higgs Boson’s Mass) from Heaven?

Stealing fire from heaven. The most important physics experiment in the history of, well, all of history, is slated to take place over the late winter of 2009 and the first few months of 2010. This is when the CERN particle … Continue reading

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