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  • Book Review: The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins

    I’ll try not to write much here, since this book has already been written about way too much. Briefly, my opinion is that this book doesn’t break a whole lot of new ground, but it puts some common arguments for atheism in popular language and is an enjoyable read. For the most part, it’s well-argued…

  • Willies and Hoohaas

    Wanna see something really stupid? Apparently, some schools in the Southern U.S.banned a book for using the word “scrotum”. Then, in an unrelated story, The Vagina Monologues was renamed “The Hoohaa Monologues” because somebody complained. Seriously. Both of the articles cite the reason for the bannings is that kids might/did ask what a scrotum/vagina is.…

  • Book Review: Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality, by Dean Radin

    Wow. I’m always blown away after reading books about parapsychology. This is no exception. Entangled Minds is almost like 3 books in one. It starts with a brief overview of what psi (i.e., phenomena like ESP and PK) is, with some examples, and an even briefer review of parapsychology’s relatively long history. Radin is constantly…