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Atheist. An inspiring short featuring music from the documentary The God Who Wasn’t There. (Trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdVucvo-kDU

Oh fuck. Let’s just get this out of the way. You’ll find no f-word, f*ck, f–k, @$!%, or other sanitized version used here. This is quite a change from Professor Allen Walker Read’s 1934 scholarly treatment of the word, An Obscenity Symbol—fifteen pages and eighty-two footnotes penned without once printing the word fuck anywhere in […]

Black Rock City is what Burning Man participants call their temporary dwelling in the desert. Each year it is rebuilt— a nurturing place for the simultaneous release of the creative energies of thousands— and then it is taken down and the playa meticulously cleaned by those same participants, leaving once again only the windswept lake […]

Here is the official Burning Man events calendar, updated daily with many of the cool scheduled things to happen in Black Rock City.

Here’s a truly amazing photo essay of last year’s Burning Man by Google Linux Admin Marc Merlin. It will give you a good idea of the variety of experiences always happening in Black Rock City. There are also links throughout the page to galleries containing many more images.

PBS is premiering the new series Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, and each weekly episode can be watched in its entirety online.
Each week Moyers interviews a prominent writer on the interface between faith and reason, and how we can co-exist in a society increasingly polarized between them. Why authors, and not scholars, philosophers, or […]

I am still slowly plowing my way though Ray Kurtzweil’s The Singularity is Near, with various side trips such as to Greg Egan’s Permutation City. Another thinker I deeply respect, Douglas Hofstadter (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid) has written an essay entitled Moore’s Law, Artificial Evolution, and the […]

Powers of Ten was an amazing short film when it came out in 1977, and despite a few errors and omissions it’s still amazing today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpA28eUB7Ek

And once you’ve wrapped your head around that, watch Homer Simpson wrapping his head around it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCfDRvDWid0

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The Brick Testament is a vivid depiction of many famous (and infamous) Bible stories realized entirely in LEGO bricks. “The Reverend” Brendan Powell Smith builds all the characters and settings out of LEGOs, then photographs them to produce the illustrated stories. All the stories are told using direct quotes from the Bible.
While some churches use […]