Daily Archives: Thursday, 20:57, May 17, 2012
5th Day’s Links Sceptique for May 17, 2012
I hope your Norse Storm Hammer God’s day is doing better than expected. This week, I’ve got a few interesting bookmarks that I just had to evilly inflict upon you, my unsuspecting readers…
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First, I’ve found a piece on Big Think that’ll prove very handy in debating theists on social media like Twitter, Getting Apologists to Go Off-Script…and making them think on their own for a response to inquisitive atheists!
Well, I’ve done a bit of posting on Blaise Pascal’s pet argument this week, but for every argument around for that long, there’s a counterargument — so forget Pascal — I’ll place my bet on the Atheist’s Wager instead!
Should atheists leave religion alone? — As the author suggests, hardly. Especially when would-be theocrats strive evermore to keep their social privilege and get more of the same in the culture wars with secularists.
Space is big — mindbogglingly big, more so than our monkey brains can easily handle — and here is how we go about measuring the universe despite all that.
This is something I’ve posted on myself as a recurring theme on this site, but not as well as this on The Curse of Certainty and the Liberating Embrace of Uncertainty, on NPR…
Once again, that cranky English guy who gave us gravity and the Laws of Motion is making the rounds in a set of incredible videos of Ike Newton’s experiments with alchemy…and some of the chemistry tricks that alchemists used to con people into thinking that they transmuted elements…
Looking for new ways to get better search results? Google Knowledge Graph: Search Results Packed with Worlds of Information — ’nuff said.
The search for the mythical Mokele Mbembe is on! (Again???) Jurassic Lark? Expedition to Seek Living Dinosaurs in Africa — Ah, more fun from the cryptozoology enthusiasts — even as untrained amateurs, they just might discover something of interest, but I’m not holding my breath on it…
This touches on one of my favoritest (sic) topics — on extraterrestrial life, somewhere, in some form — The 6 Most Likely Places to Find Alien Life.
On two of the less illustrious and campier episodes of the original Doctor Who series, its in-your-face politics!
Finally, though I’m hardly fit to determine how much of this is real, it looks good and totally rocks, too!
Dr. Who Meets Metal!
5th Day’s Links Sceptique is a selection of links to blogs, news outlets, and cool little sites on the Web that relate to science, reason, skepticism, atheism, the fringes and borderlands of science, memes relating to science or skepticism, and anything that catches my eye or which I’m deluded enough to think might arouse the interest of you, my perspicacious readers. 5th Day’s Links Sceptique is published on Thursdays on the Call.
