Friday Link Dump 4/26/13

LH

• How to Step Outside of Your (God)Box
• The Left Hemispheres Podcast Ep. 17: Oh Islamophobia, you bad girl.

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CULTURE

• No, you're not entitled to your opinion “You are only entitled to what you can argue for.”
• Dartmouth College Cancels Classes After Sexual Assault Protesters Receive Rape Threats Thank you misogynistic asshole for calling even more attention to this protest.
• Fox's Bolling: Rep. Ellison Is "The Muslim Apologist In Congress" And "Very Dangerous" Steve says, “Hannity also compared Ellison's use of the Quran for his swearing-in ceremony to using "Hitler's Mein Kampf, which is the Nazi bible."
• You want to know what the Nazi's used as a bible? The Bible.
• Pennsylvania Democrat tells GOP to uphold Constitution, not Bible
• The Gun Vote and 2014: Will There Be an Electoral Price?  
• The rightwing donors who fuel America’s culture wars Don’t be alarmed.  They’re all old white men.
• US Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not Genes Can Be Patented This is a tricky one.
• Thank You Thursdays: The cross-dressing Kurd Men For Equality

ATHEISM

• Should Atheists Be Expected to Repudiate Stupid Statements from Prominent Atheists? I am guilty of this too.  If you don't examine your own beliefs from time to time, you are not a skeptic.
• Bombing Suspect Cites Islamic Extremist Beliefs as Motive I don’t know why, but I was hoping that this was motivated by something else.
• Andrew Sullivan on ‘High-Minded Nonsense’ of Liberals on Tsarnaev Brothers
• The A-Unicornist: It's important to criticize Islam uh, yeah.
• What Martial Arts Have to Do With Atheism

SCIENCE...DAMMIT

• 1.5 million-year-old human footprints found
• What Happens When You Wring Out a Washcloth in Space?
• BBC - Future - Science & Environment - Is race perception automatic? Race recognition may have been helpful to identify group affiliation in the past.  That is largely outdated at this point unless you are looking for minority republicans.
• Pictures: Green Walls May Cut Pollution in Cities  
• American Psychological Association promotes pseudotherapies. Again.
• A breakdown of nervous breakdowns
• A Dangerous Method: Can Sex Restore Mental Health? I think this is worth a try.
• The Math: What Life On Kepler-62e Would Be Like  Heavy.  I mean like 50% added mass.
• Astronomers discover two water worlds orbiting star Kepler-62
• Has NASA been watching Top Gear?
• New Technique Turns Brain Transparent, Gives Scientists Direct Look Into Brain Just soak it in vinegar like an egg. It's not brain surgery.

Wish I would have thought of this as a kid.


via The Thinking Atheist


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