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POPSInnumeracy's John Allen Paulos on credulity and loveby
enbar Yesterday 11:05 AM A great post from 3quarksdaily (Feb. 2008) about the human desire to believe in something, even a fraud. Context: Paulos has put together a book debunking probabilistic arguments for God's existence. The clip doesn't do it justice -- RTWT ("read the whole thing").
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POPSGroup scheduling made easier: WhenIsGood.com Tool for group scheduling. Go to their site, look at a calendar, click on the times that work for you, and it'll generate a link that you can send to your people. They visit the page and indicate when they're free. Then you see the results. No registration required.
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POPSFood allergies as a weapon for school bullies A very disturbing story -- some school bullies have been using peanut butter as a weapon to terrorize peanut-allergic kids. Consequences are potentially fatal. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5Z2UxH0lU . Story also uses the word "consequating," new on me.
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POPSPassion Fest 2008, Pottstown, PA (July 19) I'm seriously thinking about going to this. Out of curiousity, really. My understanding is that it has a heavily evangelical, proselytizing flavor, but that isn't really indicated by the website.
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POPSKeep a handgun at home to defend the family? Not smart Here are some numbers. Despite the recent SCOTUS decision and Scalia's assertions about the value of a handgun in the home, studies suggest that the gun in your house is twelve times more likely to be used on a resident of the house than on an intruder. In home invasions, the bad guy gets to the gun first in two out of three cases.
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POPSThe language you speak affects your personality A study of bilingual women suggests that when you switch from speaking one language to another, your personality and your perceptions change as well. I've experienced this myself switching between German and English.
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POPSRembrandt's two renderings of the Binding of Isaac The first one is the one Rembrandt did late in his life, and it's arguably a much superior piece of art. In the early one, the image is violent and dynamic, in the later one, it's much quieter -- characterized by a sense of mourning and consolation.
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POPSGeorge Carlin's theology I never heard this routine until Carlin died. It's pretty brilliant. If you're religious and easily offended, don't read it.
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POPSTo the victor belong the spoils: Iraq's oil deal Andrew Sullivan reminds us that one of the Bush administrations official "benchmarks" for measuring progress in Iraq was the drafting of legislation to distribute Iraqi oil. Well, surprise, surprise, that legislation's been drafted, and the oil's been handed over to foreign companies with no bidding.
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POPSCommodity speculation and the cost of living As high-tech stocks and real-estate investments have started to look less promising, financial speculators have turned to commodities. This is why energy and food prices have shot up so dramatically around the world.
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