Lettuce pray...
Today (May 1) is the National Day of Prayer where we are expected to hit the deck and pray to jebus about shit and stuff. I am as mad as a box of frogs! What a bullshit batshit crazy stupid fucking waste of time.
This should be conducted as a controlled experiment. We should choose 100 people with terminal cancer and pray that half die and half survive. Let's see once and for all what a total waste of human effort this praying crap really is.
RAmen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, who showed how small actions could lead to major changes in what became known as the "butterfly effect," died of cancer on Wednesday at the age of 90, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said.
Lorenz, a meteorologist, figured out in the 1960s that small differences in a dynamic system such as the atmosphere could set off enormous changes. In 1972 he presented a study entitled "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas.
There are not too many people alive or dead who can claim that they genuinely changed the world. One of the few examples is Charles Darwin. The Theory of Evolution changed everything about the way we looked at the world. And now you can see Darwin's actual handwritten notes, scanned in glorious detail and digitally recorded for posterity.
You can see Darwin's handwritten notes here >
This is as heartbreaking a story as you could ever come across. Clearly the mother of this poor child was suffering from mental illness. Yet another example of the devastating effects of a delusional belief in a deity.
Information Source: Chicago Sun Times (http://www.suntimes.com)
SANTIAGO, Chile - Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday. No one was injured in the remote region.
Am I being pedantic, but shouldn't an apology include the word "sorry" somewhere in the text? I am trying to track down the complete text, but so far all I have is the abridged version...
...But, after being on the receiving end of a week’s worth of public criticism, Davis called Sherman yesterday to apologize.
Sherman says Davis told him she "took out her frustrations and emotions on me and that she shouldn’t have done that." Sherman says Davis' explanation was "reasonable" and that he forgives her.
According to Sherman and State Rep. Jack Franks….Davis claims her outburst was triggered by learning shortly beforehand…that there’d been another Chicago Public School student killed.
State Rep. Jack Franks was chairing the hearing that day and says Davis’ outburst was uncharacteristic, adding "she was having a bad day."
I'm sorry but that's just not an apology, that's an excuse.
(Amherst, New York) --Rep. Monique Davis, a Chicago Democrat and member of the Illinois legislature, stepped egregiously over the line when she verbally attacked atheist activist Rob Sherman for his religious unbelief during his testimony April 2nd to the House State Government Administration Committee, says the Council for Secular Humanism.
From The Independent (UK) Newspaper - Reporting by Steve Connor
A rather unfortunate name, but good science none the less.
Science is all about big ideas. But few come bigger than the 'Higgs bosOn' – a theory that may unlock the universe's deepest secrets.
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