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April links
May. 4th, 2007 12:04 amThe Legend of Zelda: A Pain in my Ass (another brilliantly hilarious video by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pyrotech_c3h8! My favorite link of the month, even though it's technically May):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwxVjNLPVhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyHjlPbBnZE
Why the Gods are Not Winning:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/paul07/paul07_index.html
"America's disbelievers atheists now number 30 million, most well educated and higher income, and they far outnumber American Jews, Muslims and Mormons combined. There are many more disbelievers than Southern Baptists, and the god skeptics are getting more recruits than the evangelicals."
Not for the faint of heart... (this is really hard to watch, so don't say I didn't warn you):
http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1177931030/Girl_Gets_Stoned_to_Death_for_Dating_a_Man_of_Another_Religion
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/
The myths surrounding mirror neurons:
http://www.slate.com/id/2165123/
Psychotherapist gets barred from US for writing about LSD experience:
http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/23/Feldmar/
Girls 'just felt right' murdering friend:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21607426-1245,00.html
(an example of how not universal "moral instinct" is)
An incredibly cool contact juggling music video (vialars_larsen):
http://www.juggling.tv/vaults/view_video.php?viewkey=27ad868d138f2b4fdd6f
According to the Texas constitution, you may not hold office in Texas unless you "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being" (as if it wasn't already hard enough to get a decent politician elected!):
http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/txconst/sections/cn000100-000400.html
An interesting talk on how people "manufacture" synthetic happiness in their brains (not sure I like the implications of this):
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/97 (both this and the next link viamathemajician
A 2002 Richard Dawkins talk entitled "The Design of Life", recently put online:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/113
"It may sound as though I'm about to preach atheism. And I want to reassure you that's not what I'm going to do. In an audience as sophisticated as this one, that would be preaching to the choir. Instead, what I want to urge upon you is militant atheism!"
Belief in reincarnation tied to memory errors:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17982545/
pyrotech_c3h8! My favorite link of the month, even though it's technically May):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwxVjNLPVhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyHjlPbBnZE
Why the Gods are Not Winning:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/paul07/paul07_index.html
"America's disbelievers atheists now number 30 million, most well educated and higher income, and they far outnumber American Jews, Muslims and Mormons combined. There are many more disbelievers than Southern Baptists, and the god skeptics are getting more recruits than the evangelicals."
Not for the faint of heart... (this is really hard to watch, so don't say I didn't warn you):
http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1177931030/Girl_Gets_Stoned_to_Death_for_Dating_a_Man_of_Another_Religion
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/
The myths surrounding mirror neurons:
http://www.slate.com/id/2165123/
Psychotherapist gets barred from US for writing about LSD experience:
http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/23/Feldmar/
Girls 'just felt right' murdering friend:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21607426-1245,00.html
(an example of how not universal "moral instinct" is)
An incredibly cool contact juggling music video (via
lars_larsen):http://www.juggling.tv/vaults/view_video.php?viewkey=27ad868d138f2b4fdd6f
According to the Texas constitution, you may not hold office in Texas unless you "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being" (as if it wasn't already hard enough to get a decent politician elected!):
http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/txconst/sections/cn000100-000400.html
An interesting talk on how people "manufacture" synthetic happiness in their brains (not sure I like the implications of this):
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/97 (both this and the next link via
mathemajicianA 2002 Richard Dawkins talk entitled "The Design of Life", recently put online:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/113
"It may sound as though I'm about to preach atheism. And I want to reassure you that's not what I'm going to do. In an audience as sophisticated as this one, that would be preaching to the choir. Instead, what I want to urge upon you is militant atheism!"
Belief in reincarnation tied to memory errors:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17982545/
