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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Links to Your World, Tuesday May 15

33 Geeky Insults

 

20 ways to save money.

 

"My kids grew old, so I got a dog. My dog grew old, so I got a skateboard.” From a 47-year-old quoted in a NYT piece on skateboarding as the new midlife crisis.

 

"My Heroes Have Always Been Hebrews." A post by Joe Carter on what is behind evangelicals' love of the Jews.

 

Cathedral Uses PlayStation Game in Worship Service.

 

"Robot Soldiers Will Be A Reality." Didn't these guys see Terminator?

 

"The Talk" that parents should have with their kids now includes what to do about porn. You knew that already, right?

 

Astronauts ask NASA to "cool it" on global warmism.

 

"All there is to say about this, as far as I can see, is that Krauss is dead wrong and his religious and philosophical critics are absolutely right." David Albert, with a PhD in theoretical physics, reviews for the NYT Lawrence Krauss' latest offering to scientism (A Universe From Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing). Richard Dawkins, in typical hyperbole, says of Krauss's book, "If ‘On the Origin of Species’ was biology’s deadliest blow to supernaturalism, we may come to see ‘A Universe From Nothing’ as the equivalent from cosmology. The title means exactly what it says. And what it says is devastating." Albert, on the other hand, concludes that what it says is shallow. Krauss responds in this Atlantic interview, showing the kind of intemperance that seems to be required for popularizers of scientism who hope to sell a lot of books. I'm stunned at how clueless he is to his own caustic nature in the interview.

 

Get out your frustrations in the Anger Room, where you're allowed to smash everything in sight.

 

Tweeting Pastor Destroys Wise Reputation

 

Depression in middle age can signal the likelihood of dementia in old age? Great, something else to be depressed about--No, wait...

 

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