Tardigrade parade
Why yes, I am watching Cosmos…why do you ask? Actually I think I first time learned about extremophiles, including tardigrades,...
Full of Sound and Fury: The Media Response to Dennett
This post previously published as an article in the journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion in 2008....
No special snowflakes
Dr. X commented recently on just world bias, as displayed by Oprah while interviewing Lance Armstrong: Just one slightly weird...
Sam Harris on a NDE as drug trip
I wrote this week about Eben Alexander’s account of his must-be-true experience with the afterlife, which made the cover story in...
Tripping a little more
A few more thoughts on Eben Alexander’s near-death experience: PZ Myers describes the story in a post called Newsweek panders to...
I’m tripping over you, God
In a Newsweek article grandiosely (to put it lightly) titled Proof of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife published yesterday, Dr. Eben Alexander...
Rillion’s Law applied
I have my own law, devised under the screen name Rillion which I’ve used since about 2000. The law isn’t...
Pareidolia of the day: Holy shit!
You can see it, right? Right? I haven’tbeen spending all of this time staringat bird feces on my windshield fornothing?...
Suppositions
Human nature, by Junior Lopes Here are a few…let’s call them suppositions I’ve reached in the process of doing a...
You make the music go back; you hear Satan speakin’
Pareidolia ( /pærɪˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being...