Friday Link Dump 5/10/13

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The Left Hemispheres Podcast Ep.18-Jimmy Madison and the Logical Positives

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• Answers In Genesis, That "Science' Quiz & Quotes Too Stupid Not To Share
• Jesus Camp Preacher Becky Fisher Still At It

SCIENCE

• Bioteeth From Stemcells Will Regrow Complete Tooth, Superior to Implants
• Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
• American English Dialects
• Russian researchers find more evidence to support notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays No, it’s just Thor fighting the Silver Surfer.
• Soldiers' faces predict aggression, military rank & number of children
• RoboBee Robot the Size of a Quarter Shows Off New Flight Skills Bow to your new miniature overlords.
• I won’t take money from Templeton: Science and religion can’t be reconciled
• Psychiatry’s Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say
• Did Earth And The Moon Get Their Water From The Same Place?
• 6 Horrifying Animal Kills Science Didn't Think Were Possible
• Babylon's hanging garden: ancient scripts give clue to missing wonder  
• Is Science Just for White People?

ATHEISM/RELIGION

• Cardinal Dolan: Gay Catholics With ‘Dirty Hands’ At Mass Should Be Arrested For Trespassing Why why WHY do these people want to call themselves Catholics?!?
• 500 Questions about God & Christianity | A light-hearted look at hard questions
• Elizabeth Smart and the Case Against Christian Abstinence Education I can make a case against abstinence education with a single word: teenagers.
• Statement Regarding Military Religious Liberties by the Southern Baptists This sounds reasonable...and yet somehow insidious.  
• “Faith is not a virtue”: a Q-and-A with Peter Boghossian
• Free Arabs - BREAKING Wanted for atheism!
• Bestselling Turkish Writer is receiving death threats, after she took her veil off
• Laughing in Purgatory: Report from: Atheism, How to Fail as a Social Movement Conference
• Fabio Martinez Castilla: Abortion is Worse Than Child Rape, Says Mexican Archbishop

CULTURE

• Diversity at Fox News Shocker
• MIND: Playing for All Kinds of Possibilities “Imaginative play influences the development of abstract thought.” This is the reason I don’t feel the need to discourage a belief in a Santa myth (or a Jesus myth) in my son.
• Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware But...I heard on Fox News that America has more brown people than ever.  That doesn’t make sense.
• The Frogman drops the hammer on "misandry"
• Minnesota set to allow gay marriage after House approves bill Number 11.  Let’s make it happen.
• Zeitgeist, the movie Debunked
• Romancing The Hopeless: Ambivalence and Attachement in Film and Real Life Look up Robert Desnos
• Age of consent should be 13, says barrister Excuse me while I vomit.
• Arkansas school cancels entire graduation after being asked not to pray So the adults throw a tantrum to show their 12 year-old children how to handle being told “no.”  Well played.