Hey, if you aren't listening to atheists talk radio, watch this 1946 film for schools from Encyclopedia Britannica. It's practically a cliche: black & white, dreadfully wooden 'acting', the serious narrator, but it's also describing how to tell a democracy from a despotism, and the warning signs that your culture is in trouble, in ways that are relevant.
It's a little disturbing, too. It's like they're describing us.
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A while ago, Nature did a study comparing wikipedia to Britannica (you can read my take on it here - oh, just look at the title I used :-).
When we think of our origin story -- the origin of everything in the Universe -- many of us think of, "let there be light!" This is true whether you consider the Big Bang origins of our Universe or the biblical stories we've told for thousands of years, yet few of us pause to consider what the ph
Just Noticeable Differences
Miss ELISA's world
Spring has sprung, and so have these stories on our European partner site, ScienceBlogs.de: