I could survive for 1 minute, 13 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

What could we do with $10 trillion?

Opportunity Cost of George W. Bush and 10 Trillion Dollars

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Obama interviewed by O'Reilly, the transcripts:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

An interesting read. I thought it went pretty well on both sides.

Wow. Am I surprised? Not really.

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do." - Olin Miller

Belief-O-Matic Quiz

I just took the Belief-O-Matic Quiz and here are my results on how well I identify with the beliefs of each group:

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (93%)
3. Liberal Quakers (77%)
4. Nontheist (71%)
5. Neo-Pagan (69%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (69%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (63%)
8. New Age (52%)
9. Reform Judaism (49%)
10. Taoism (49%)
11. Orthodox Quaker (42%)
12. Mahayana Buddhism (41%)
13. Sikhism (34%)
14. Scientology (33%)
15. Bah�'� Faith (32%)
16. New Thought (31%)
17. Jainism (27%)
18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (27%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (23%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (22%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (20%)
22. Hinduism (19%)
23. Eastern Orthodox (19%)
24. Islam (19%)
25. Orthodox Judaism (19%)
26. Roman Catholic (19%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (12%)

I guess thats about what I would expect. What results do you get and would you agree with them?

Scotty B

"A non-believer cannot commit blasphemy. To blaspheme, one must be within the set of belief and ritual contrasts of the faith community." -John S. Wilkins

...but not to me!

You won't see Jenny McCarthy touting this study:

Mental Disorders In Parents Linked To Autism In Children, Study Shows

ScienceDaily (2008-05-05) -- Parents of children with autism were roughly twice as likely to have been hospitalized for a mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, than parents of other children, according to a new analysis. The association was present regardless of the timing of the parent's diagnosis relative to the child's diagnosis.

And here's a cool video on eye evolution (thanks PZ):

Hilarious (and mildly NSFW):

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LSD Inventor Dead

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who created the hallucinogen LSD, died the age of 102. What do you think?