This is a rather horrifying article about young girls reading Harry Potter one moment, and then dragged off to get their clitorises chopped off . It’s got these nasty little details like, if you pay extra, you can get the butcher to use a clean knife
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Hey, UK! How do you reconcile these two facts?
One of the giant panels I was on at Convergence is now a podcast at the Secular Buddhist . It’s got me, Bug Girl, Jennifer Ouellette, Lyra Lynx, Maria Walters, Jen Mana, Ted Meissner, Debbie Goddard, Carrie Iwan, and Dave Walbridge, and I’m already worn out just listing them. It was also very well attended: SF conventions are hotbeds of godlessness
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We were all losing our religion
Well, this was a weird article in Nature that made me think, at least: A world without mosquitoes . I was surprised to learn that there are actually ecologists/entomologists who believe the world would be a better place if we could simply exterminate entire genera of winged pests — that mosquitoes fill a readily replaceable niche, that they make minimal positive contributions to ecosystems, and we’d gain immeasurably from removing animals responsible for so much human suffering. The one thing they also agree on, though, is that there is no way to do it
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A war against mosquitoes?
Alayna Wyland is 7 months old, and she is suffering . The area started swelling, and the fast-growing mass of blood vessels, known as a hemangioma, eventually caused her eye to swell shut and pushed the eyeball down and outward and started eroding the eye socket bone around the eye. There are pictures at the link.
The case of the various kinds of blogs hosted on ScienceBlogs has come up on Newsweek , and I get quoted trying to explain how I’m unperturbed by a couple of institutional blogs here. Not all bloggers feel this way, Myers included. “We’ve known about those [institutional blogs] for some time–they aren’t a problem,” he wrote in an e-mail to NEWSWEEK.
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A lesser controversy at Scienceblogs
It’s amazing: WikiLeaks has just dumped over 91,000 classified documents from the Afghanistan war on the web . Just like that, we get an actual look at what’s been going on over there, unfiltered by the traditional media, and definitely not given a rosy patina by Fox News. Fox New is, of course, treating this as a serious blow to their worldview — which isn’t surprising, since reality does great damage to Fox.
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WikiLeaks does humanity a service
A member of the studio audience has asked that I comment on the Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life , a product of the World Atheist Conference: God and Politics. Today: Proposition 10: We reject any special consideration for religion in politics and public life, and oppose charitable, tax-free status and state grants for the promotion of any religion as inimical to the interests of non-believers and those of other faiths
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The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 10
We’re happier out of a straitjacket than in one. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post…
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Sunday Sacrilege: Unorthodoxy
Most of you don’t understand evolution.
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It’s more than genes, it’s networks and systems
Stay tuned for frolicsome hijinks and high hilarity. We have stirred up some kooks. Here are 3 in ascending order of lunacy.
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Shakin’ the nuts