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Bonus Afternoon Links
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010- Interesting article about black churches in Harlem marketing themselves to curious tourists. I say more power to them. My favorite thing about religion has always been the music.
- Hadron Collider finds hints of the early universe.
- I actually once knew a guy like this, only with NBA players.
- The most interesting article about locusts that you’ll read today.
- With “Top Seven Cutest Feminists”, I think Spike just forever won the genre of traffic-generating, superficially provocative throwaway Internet lists. And I mean that as a complement.
Hadron Collider finds hints of the early universe
I still believe that the universe does not exist before 7:00 AM.
I still am moved by a number of gospel songs, though I’m no longer a believer. It’s amazing how music can influence our feelings when it comes to things like believing in supernatural stuff, supporting the Motherland/Fatherland, supporting the troops, or buying sugar-laden drinks. Propaganda of all sorts goes better with stirring music.
Try this experiment: watch commercials muted, then rewind and watch them again with the sound on. The more ridiculous the product, the better this experiment works. It’s amazing how a catchy tune can alter our perception, even if we’re skeptical.
“I actually once knew a guy like this, only with NBA players.”
Radley Balko — Indiana University
Top 8 traffic-generating, superficially provocative throwaway Internet lists? Go!
the way that nina hartley dresses, she should be in porn or something.
nice bonus!
I live in a predominantly black area, and have been welcomed gladly at local services which had wonderful music. And I believe the nearest AME church – which I have not happened to visit – promotes its gospel services via public advertising. I was actually recruited to volunteer at one church’s food pantry the second time I visited, a year or two after my first visit. I agreed on the spot and have helped them out a couple of times now. It is not bizarre, or uncomfortable, or awkward, to visit these services. Churches WANT visitors – they are selling something, after all.
White people absolutely puzzle me sometimes…and I’m a white person. And an atheist.
And yeah – if their services made it into the Guide Du Routard, they are gonna be seeing a boatload of French tourists. =)
It would not be surprising for the cops to get a positive result off of Mexitil. It is a lidocaine like medication. We, in the profession, know lidocaine, both, as a numbing medicine, and a life saving medication when used in acute MI. Cocaine was, actually, the first, local anesthetic!
These tests are just so unpredictable, with so many false positives! Why are the legal scholars allowing, and even calling for expansion of, their continued use? I guess because they don’t care about us peons!
@Michael G (#7) When second-class citizens (non-law enforcement) are unjustifiably hassled, arrested, dispossessed, hurt, or even killed, so long as the first-class citizens “follow procedures” (or, at least make sure there’s no evidence to the contrary), then those pretending to engage in oversight will invariably decide that nothing was done wrong, which means that more second-class citizens will have their rights trampled. No consequences.
I’d also say more power to them…if churches weren’t tax exempt “non-profit” organizations…
How long until they will need to be licensed as an official tourist destination?
My god, all that “top cutest feminists” list did was reinforce the stereotype they’re trying to break. Naomi Wolf? Are they fucking kidding?
Glad the Hadron Collider has found more useless information, subsidized by taxpayers, that will contribute nothing to humankind other than satisfying the desires of some nerds. The millions starving in Africa are very impressed.
7 is all they could find. They must have had a few ales under their belt by the time they picked Naomi Wolf, though.
Isn’t the Large Hadron Collider seen as a doomsday device by some people? Am I to assume that we’re probably going to ok now?
NASA and the Hadron Collider: two examples of why-the-fuck-is-this-the-role-of-government?
Aren’t a lot of white churches in Europe marketing themselves to curious tourists.
I bet there are many uninteresting articles about that.
@Jesse #12, I agree that anyone who doesn’t want to pay for the collider shouldn’t be forced to. But they also shouldn’t be forced to help the starving in Africa (particularly since the “solutions” are mostly ineffective, particularly when diverted by kleptocratic regimes).
@Boyd Dunkin (#15), the space race with the Soviets caused enough taxpayers to go along with it, without caring how much it cost them individually. These multi $billion projects are beyond the realm of most private companies, so politicians love to make the “without government we wouldn’t have X” appeal, regardless of the fact that isn’t a valid reason to spend stolen loot.
Putting humans in space or on the moon is far more expensive than putting up automated satellites. Most of the time, there is no advantage to having people up there, but it seems to be more compelling news, and the symbolism likely helps to make it seem worthwhile. I’d wager that if they had stuck with unmanned orbitals, the costs may have been 10% (just guessing), but the average American would have been more apt to complain about the price tag.
Top seven? These kind of lists usually go with a “Top Ten”…unless, of course, there are only seven feminists that rate as ‘cute’ which wouldn’t be a stretch.