That’s how I’d describe the Q&A we had a couple of weeks ago on The Media’s Fear of Atheism. Check it out below the fold:
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Watch this video and weep — this is simultaneously one of the most bizarre and scary videos I have seen in a long time. Evangelical Christians being hypnotized and healed by the power of the Hokey Pokey. Seriously. The fucking Hokey Pokey. I’m not sure whether to thank Bing McGhandi for bringing this to my [...]
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Words cannot describe how much I wish I could write a detailed post on the Poincaré Conjecture — sadly, I just don’t have enough of a mathematical background to do the topic justice. For those of you who have never heard of the Poincaré Conjecture, it relates to the 4-dimensional analogue of spheres (i.e. a 3-sphere) [...]
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So, about a month ago an article by Deepak Chopra came to my attention and I vowed that I would immediately do up a blog post about it. Evidently, that plan fell through, but because I’m nothing if not an ineffably stubborn bastard, I’ve decided to inflict this late article on you anyway. It’s called Which [...]
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I just had my first tutorial on special relativity, and let me tell you — however you think you should visualize travelling close to the speed of light, you’re probably wrong (unless, of course, you’re a physicist). I say this as someone who has read plenty of popular books and watched plenty of videos explaining [...]
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A while ago, I was browsing through a long list of unwatched TED talks (I subscribe on iTunes) and I came across a talk titled Arthur Benjamin’s formula for changing math education. This got me pretty excited — one of my pet peeves (as anyone who has spent longer than five minutes talking to me will [...]
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There’s a great post up over at Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP on understanding mathematical proofs as art, and what we can learn from them by doing so. While some of the theorems he talks about may be a bit obscure to the non-maths reader, at least one should ring a bell: Andrew Wiles’ proof of [...]
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You may have seen the following Insane Clown Posse floating around the internet recently, pimped mercilessly by Rebecca over at Skepchick… …but wait a minute! What’s this? Another ICP video? GODDAMN IT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, NOW I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS REAL ANYMORE!!!
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And now I pass the ohrwurm on to you. Feel free to thank Bing McGhandi when you’re still hearing this in a week’s time. Seriously though…awesome.
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There was a high speed chase that ended down my street today. Seriously: Police helicopter, squad cars, reckless driving and a final dash from the car through the housing complex on the corner. Later, the car started flaming (for what reason I’m not sure — I went inside while the police were searching the car) [...]
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