Michael Shermer
Columnist, Scientific American
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Did you know that "SM performances are deeply tied to capitalist cultural formations"? Or that BDSM is "a paradigmatic consumer sexuality"?
PoMo nonsense: "These binaries rely on the social construction of risk." "In what follows, I unfold the thickness of such loadedness."
Camille Paglia smack down of post modernism. PoMo: "Late capitalism itself produces the transgressiveness of sex." chronicle.com/article/Schola…
The Chronicle Review
chronicle.com — Once confined to the murky shadows of the sexual underworld, sadomasochism and its recreational correlate, bondage and domination, have emerged into startling visibility and mainstream acceptance in books, movies, and merchandising. Two years ago, E.L.
RT @rickygervais: I leave you with the tweet of the year...
"Dumb athiest. Why quote @RichardDawkins? He just a retard in a wheelchair wit…
Sunday's 2pm PST Skeptics lecture Caltech "Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes" Daphne Fairbairn skeptic.com/upcoming-lectu…
Upcoming Lectures at Caltech
skeptic.com — WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? What was there before it? Why is there something rather than nothing? Such questions have been at the center of religious and philosophical debates about the existence of God, but in recent years science has been closing in on answers.
It's working! Sylvia Browne deleted her twitter and Facebook because of her psychic prediction Amanda Berry was dead. Good riddence Sylvia!
RT @SoberLook: Really sad to see crooks using the situation in Syria to swindle people ... pic.twitter.com/ksIuICXtUl
SoberLook: Really sad to see crooks using ...
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97.1% of 4000 climate science papers in 20 years accept AGW, 0.7% doubt it. Rest played Nearer My God to Thee on deck iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/…
Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature
iopscience.iop.org — We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991-2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming.
Alien Iconography, an article on "deities for atheists" I wrote for Grey magazine, illustrated by Zoe Taylor grey-magazine.com/alien-iconogra…
Alien Iconography
grey-magazine.com — Asleep in your bed in the early morning hours you are awakened by the sound of a distinct voice. Your eyes are now open but you are unable to move, frozen in fear and paralyzed to defend yourself.
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