An interesting and very straightforward evaluation of faith and evidence when it comes to proving or disproving god. I think he undervalues the revelatory nature of some people’s faith (i.e. they have “evidence” that no one else saw, like god spoke to them), which for them is reason enough. It’s addressed, but it assumes that people have a desire to question their own processes. For the most part, that’s just not true.
But check out this freaky related video.
They were so well stored of biscuit, that for the space of halfe a yeere they might allow each person in the whole fleete halfe a quintall every moneth, whereof the whole summe amounteth unto a hundreth thousand quintals.
Likewise of wine they had 147,000 pipes, sufficient also for halfe a yeere’s expedition. Of bacon, 6500 quintals. Of cheese, 3000 quintals. Besides fish, rise, beanes, pease, oile, vinegar, &c.
The Fruit Bats – “Seaweed”
Mouthfuls
I love the guitar in this song. So calming. This is a great album, by the way, one of the few albums I have with a distinct twang to it. I’m okay with that.
Oh, this is excellent. The 9/12 rally, but in video form. Haven’t seen any of these yet. Hope there are more.
Good lord. Say what you will about the service, but that’s the ugliest logo Google’s ever made.
Their pieces of brazen ordinance were 1600, and of yron a 1000.
The bullets thereto belonging were 120,000.
Item of gun-poulder, 5600 quintals. Of matche, 1200 quintals. Of muskets and kaleivers, 7000. Of haleberts and partisans, 10,000.
Moreover they had great stores of canons, double-canons, culverings and field-pieces for land services.
Norman Borlaug, major defender against world hunger, dies
I remember seeing this guy on the “Genetic Modification” episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit. Penn cited him as perhaps the greatest person who ever lived, suggesting that his research had helped feed billions of people who would have otherwise starved (and continues to today). I would agree, though the critics have a point that a result of his techniques was an over-reliance on artificial fertilizers and a hugely raised ceiling for population — the problems following from which we are still dealing with today.
Still, his work was all about getting poor, starving people enough grains to eat and make a living; that’s all he ever wanted, and he succeeded marvelously. From the article: “About half the world’s population goes to bed every night after consuming grain descended from one of the high-yield varieties developed by Dr. Borlaug and his colleagues of the Green Revolution.”
RIP, Norman – would that a tenth of a percent of the people in this world were as dedicated, modest, and selfless as you were.
Great song, freaky video. Must have been fun/difficult to make.
The galliasses were of such bignesse, that they contained within them chambers, chapels, turrets, pulpits, and other commodities of great houses. The galliasses were rowed with great oares, there being in eche one of them 300 slaves for the same purpose, and were able to do great service with the force of their ordinance. All these, together with the residue aforenamed, were furnished and beautified with trumphets, streamers, banners, warlike ensignes, and other such like ornaments.
Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes”
I understand that the popular conception of Sherlock Holmes is mistaken — he’s far from merely an observative gentleman detective. He’s addicted to drugs and can be both manipulative and ruthless. But he’s not a 19th-century Indiana Jones. This movie will be a lot of fun, I’m sure, but did they really have to call it Sherlock Holmes?
