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• Ark Park & Missionary Lizards

  

  Back in 2010 I posted on the Creation Museum in Kentucky and the grandiose plan to build a Noah’s Ark Amusement Park nearby. It was supposed to open in 2014... Read more

  The 09 April 2013 by   Cris
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• Macroeconomic Forecasting with Diverse Predictions

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto.To say that economic forecasting is inherently difficult is an understatement. The economy is a complex adaptive system, with... Read more

  The 18 April 2013 by   Realizingresonance
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• Philosopher's Zone is Back and Other Philosophy News

  

  'School of Athens' by Raphael. Epicurus is on our left.After Alan Saunders' death, the Australian radio show about philosophy, Philosopher's Zone, was on a... Read more

  The 24 April 2013 by   Praymont
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• Graffiti: It's the Name That Does It

  

  Henry Chalfant, one of the first to document graffiti, says:"The irony is I think it's the name, the writing your name, which caused it to become universally... Read more

  The 11 April 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Durkheim’s Social Antecedents

  

  It is remarkable that of all the developmental-evolutionary theorists of religion that I have considered thus far (Hume, Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud,... Read more

  The 26 April 2013 by   Cris
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• Durkheim & De Waal on Human Sociality

  

  I’ve just finished a close study of Emile Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912) and concluded that its entire premise is based on ignorance. Read more

  The 29 April 2013 by   Cris
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• Scientologist Scum & More

  

  I want to clear some links from my cue, so let’s begin with this superb review of Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of... Read more

  The 06 April 2013 by   Cris
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• Revisiting Göbekli Tepe

  

  For reasons not entirely clear, The New Yorker has resurrected a 2011 story on Göbekli Tepe and showcased it on the front page. Read more

  The 22 April 2013 by   Cris
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• Moral Intuitions as Evolutionary Modules

  

  People have moral reactions to the situations they observe around themselves -- within the work environment, in the family, on the street, or in international... Read more

  The 02 April 2013 by   Dlittle30
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• Modern European “Primitives”

  

  At the imaginary margins of “secular-rationalist” Europe there be monsters. In fact, there are so many folk-monsters roaming the countryside that French... Read more

  The 17 April 2013 by   Cris
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