Today this comic showed up on RichardDawkins.net:
lol.
Well, yeah, it’s funny, but something here caught my attention and made me flex my Google muscles and that is…
Norway is ranked first in the world in life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living.
Hold on… Norway has the highest life expectancy, literacy rate, education, and standard of living? [...]
Archive for June, 2009
19 Jun
Look to Norway!
19 Jun
The Campaign for Free Expression
Ideas don’t need rights. People do.
There are certain taboos that we coexist with in our society, constricting the wide range of things we could be talking about. Deviants of these taboos are often met with hostile reactions. If you’ve ever openly criticised, say… religion, but never heard somebody say something to the effect of “stop [...]
10 Jun
What is the Meaning of SecondLife?
SecondLife is on the whole a boring game. Small modicums of entertainment can be gained by seeing people attach couches to themselves as outfits. It is no wonder people are wondering “is there something more than this virtual 3D world?”
Out of boredom, and seeking answers to the great mysteries of SecondLife, I decided to attend a [...]
8 Jun
Lessons in Logic
So myself, my mother, and two guests walk into a Chinese restaurant. Part of the conversation goes like this.
Mom: The way they grow food here in the US is different from the way they grow food in China. That must be the reason why people have allergies here.
Me: Have you ever heard of the phrase correlation [...]
3 Jun
Crop Circle: Sign of an Enlightened Era
A 250 meter long jelly fish has appeared on a farm in England, so reports the BBC. But note the following sentence from the article…
She said she was not concerned about tracking down the culprits and the incident has not been reported to the police.
What’s missing from this sentence?
They’re not jumping to the conclusions that [...]
