UFOs?

This video is interesting because you can replace UFO with 'religious experience' and it will still work.

Plus I just love Neil Degrasse Tyson. He is becoming the Carl Sagan of this generation. He has boundless energy and he just loves teaching people about science. Enjoy.

Unintelligent Design

I really enjoyed this video of Richard Dawkins attending a dissection of one of the major nerves in a giraffe's neck. Not only do you see some pretty compelling evidence for unintelligent design, a giraffe is a fantastic model for understanding and seeing the major nerves and blood vessels in a mammalian neck.

Also I love how he makes a joke about not screwing up and the lady basically tells him to shut the fuck up; that she knows what she's doing. Not many people have the temerity to tell Richard Dawkins to fuck off when it comes to biology. I laughed when I heard her say that.


Richard Dawkins Demonstrates Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe
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Neil Degrasse Tyson

I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before. - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I got this quote from The Hateful Atheist. I think it is brilliant and sums up a lot of my feelings about science education.

The New Tithe

$40,000,000,000 in RELIGIOUS GRANTS? I thought this was a secular country! Let these people fend for themselves since they aren't paying taxes and use that money to pay for the NIH, education, and Planned Parenthood!!

I am SO disgusted.

The New Tithe from Justin Wilson on Vimeo.

NIH Is Under Attack

Spread the word. Funding for things like new medicine, treatments, and technology for medical use is about to be slashed to the tune of billions. 

So is higher education, which pisses me off just as much.

Michael Shermer

Enjoy.

The Nocebo Effect

I know that you are absolutely dying to have me finish my discussion of action potentials, and don't worry, it will be up soon. However, this video on the nocebo effect is highlighting one of the most interesting thigns about neurobiology: the ability of the brain to make you feel like absolute crap.

Enjoy.