Pascal’s Wager

Even if you’re not familiar with the name, you’ve probably heard this argument a few times before. In fact, if you’re like me, you may even have independently come up with something similar during your adolescent years of pseudo-philosophising, along with many other rather dreary insights you discovered and felt proud of at the time, [...]

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What’s this guy got against cigarettes?

Fred Phelps continues to be fucking hilarious. I know there’s no way, realistically, that his entire existence (and that of his whole family) is one extended joke, awaiting his eventual deathbed punchline, “… The Aristocrats!” as some people have hypothesised. And yet, there does just seem to be something unreal about him, which makes it [...]

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I suck

Not dead, not forgotten about this place, just been drained of energy from so much focusing on trying to move into a new flat. Being a grown-up am difficult. Hoping to return to a regular schedule of some sort soon, in which I actually get things done, but for now I should probably acknowledge this [...]

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Lucky for some

Hey, you! Yes, you! Have you ever seen those clips of people doing ridiculous and dangerous things for no good reason, except to have fun and provide twisted amusement for us voyeuristic consumers? Have you ever wished you could be the one shooting Johnny Knoxville in the crotch with a paintball gun, rather than just [...]

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Doesn’t look a day over… six feet of earth

Happy Darwin Day, everyone! And happy 200th birthday to Mr Darwin himself, man of the hour. Or, I suppose, of the day. The whole internetoblogosphere is abuzz with cleverer commentary than I have any hope of providing about your legacy, your lasting contribution to science, and your magnificent Santa-beard, so I won’t go too much [...]

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The second law of thermodynamics

This is an easy one to address. I haven’t seen it being seriously argued anywhere lately, which might mean that it’s finally sinking in what nonsense it is, but maybe I’m just looking in the wrong places. Either way, it doesn’t take much to understand why the theory of evolution is in no way refuted [...]

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Not ded

I’ve had this really bothersome condition lately, where I’m trying to write a relatively simple and straightforward article about the fundamentals of radiometric dating, but whenever I try and make there be more words in it, I suddenly and incurably take on the cognitive appearance of a functional illiterate who doesn’t even have anything interesting [...]

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A blog post, on Friday?

(It must have escaped from the zoo.) Even though it’s my day off, a few things inconveniently insisted on happening, so I’d better talk about them very briefly. – Because of the way atheists have been dominating all forms of public discourse lately, finally some theists are having the courage to stand up for themselves [...]

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Healthy, significantly less wealthy, unwise

The Secret is definitely on the ever-growing list of things to blather about eventually. I’m not finding much energy for any of that at the moment, after work and househunting and other commitments which insist on taking priority over expounding verbosely on whatever takes my interest for the benefit of my miniscule blogospherical audience. But [...]

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Snow day

The weather has completely broken London, and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be much improvement this week. There were no buses running anywhere today, and most of the trains gave up after a brief struggle too. This kind of thing is yet another reason why I like having a temp job utterly devoid [...]

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