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Category: Culture
I actually saw this SNL Digital Short parody of the Twilight movie trailer before I saw the real one on YouTube. Make sure to watch the real thing after the parody, makes it way funnier....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 12:02 AM • 1 Comments •
Evolution, the Muslim world & religious beliefs permlink
Category: Culture
In the post below I pointed to an article which claimed: It's hard to say exactly how much support the theory of evolution enjoys in the world's Muslim countries, but it's definitely not very much. In one 2006 study by...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:50 PM • 10 Comments •
Charles Darwin was quite the infidel permlink
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There was recently a conference on evolution in Egypt. Some interesting numbers: Dr Guessoum, who is a Sunni Muslim, said that in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia, only 15 per cent of those surveyed believed Darwin's...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:47 AM • 11 Comments •
The other denialisms permlink
Category: Culture
This discussion between Michael Specter & Chris Mooney pointed me to an interesting new book, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. Instead of Global Warming or Creationism, Specter addresses less pervasively disputatious...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 7:39 PM • 19 Comments •
Box office retardiculosity! permlink
Category: Culture
'2012' Opening Earns $65 Million: It is rare for a movie not based on a pre-existing brand, franchise or hit novel to deliver such robust results. Sony said "2012," with a budget of $200 million, had the highest worldwide opening...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:40 PM • 8 Comments •
2012, "retardiculous" permlink
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Peter Suderman on 2012, the stupid new film based on the stupid 2012 phenomenon: And with its never-ending parade of glorious, ludicrous, and utterly improbable catastrophes, it more or less succeeds. 2012 is the sort of movie so aggressively hyperbolic...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:57 PM • 6 Comments •
Malcolm Gladwell permlink
Category: Culture
First, in The New Republic, Malcolm Gladwell's Secret Of Success: The first sentence here is a classically Gladwellian assertion about what the rest of us think. The rest of the paragraph consists of, more or less, made up numbers and...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:06 AM • 8 Comments •
The Devil's Helpers permlink
Category: Economics
Two Are Charged With Helping Madoff Falsify Records: Two computer programmers who worked for Bernard L. Madoff's brokerage firm were arrested on Friday on criminal charges of helping perpetuate his long-running Ponzi scheme. The two men -- Jerome O'Hara of...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:15 PM • 1 Comments •
Nidal Hasan & guns permlink
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Greg Laden vs. Matt Springer. Here are some Nidal Hasan headlines (via Steve)....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:21 PM • 5 Comments •
Sometimes it's the author, not the story permlink
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I have made reference to an epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time, several times before on this blog. The series' author, Robert Jordan, died in 2007 and left the story incomplete. Jordan had made it to book 11 over...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:44 AM • 8 Comments •