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Liberals Proven More Intelligent Than Conservatives … Or Not
Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives: Liberals think they’re more intelligent than conservatives because they are reported on a study that claims precisely this.
Shawn Smith, the “Iron Shrink”, responded with Are Liberals More Intelligent than Conservatives? Another Broken Study Says It Is So
Skepchick Stacey summarized Smith’s arguments, concluding:
The point isn’t that liberals aren’t more intelligent than conservatives – maybe they are, maybe they aren’t – but this study hasn’t proven it. The point is that if the evidence is bad, I have to ignore it – even when it tells me what I want to hear.
Carbon is forever
From Nature
After our fossil fuel blow-out, how long will the CO2 hangover last? And what about the global fever that comes along with it?
“Bible or Koran – which burns best?”
Queensland lawyer Alex Stewart smokes pages from the Koran and Bible
Lawyer says “Bible smokes better than Koran” …
In the [Youtube video] clip, titled “Bible or Koran – which burns best?”, the professed atheist says burning religious books is no big deal and people need to get over it.
“It’s just a f—ing book,” he says.
Via Slashdot
Burning Holy Books: Some Fact Checking
Claim:
“How many Bibles have been burned in the Muslim world in the last nine years? None.”
Evidence:
The Last Patriarch of Constantinople?
At CNN, with additional analysis at GetReligion.
Cannabis Catering
At Boing Boing
“…gourmet meals laced with pot.”
I am looking forward to seeing this as the theme ingredient on Iron Chef!
Change of heart
Cap-and-trade in China?
Azimuth reporting on Carbon trading in pipeline
Global warming: Proceeding as predicted
Happy 35th birthday, global warming!
On 8 August 1975, Wally Broecker published his paper “Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?” in the journal Science. That appears to be the first use of the term “global warming” in the scientific literature