In my talk on Tuesday, I suggested that if we really want to teach the controversy, we ought to put the Norse creation myth in our classes. I had no idea the plan would be so popular.
Garry Trudeau has been on a roll lately—the BD story line has been affecting and sympathetic, and now and then, he comes out and slams unreason. There have been long stretches where it feels like he’s phoning it in, but not so much recently.
Maybe I shouldn’t bring this up, since the last couple of lectures in my physiology class have been a swift overview of brain organization and function, and my students probably think I have sounded exactly like Pinky and the Brain singing about neuroanatomy. Only less entertaining. And at a ridiculous hour of the morning.
(via Mind Hacks)
You wouldn’t believe how much hate mail I got from posting a little link to Mel Gibson’s Passion with a different soundtrack…but maybe Chris Clarke can take some of the heat now.
Atheists will not be mocked, and I expect much fury in response to this disrespectful joke.
Cool. The Definitive Frink. This is going to be so useful for the researching and the webulating and the hu-uumm-hey, glayvin.
(via Recursivity)
It’s an amusing clip from The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra…I’m going to have to see that movie someday.
