Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby
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It's okay to like vinyl
Here's a nice if somewhat over-lengthy piece about why people prefer antiquated technologies like vinyl records instead of digital medi...
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This is nice video which attempts to solve why the world is sometimes such a crappy place and obvious solutions don't get implemented. I...
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"To claim that you are being discriminated against because you have lost your right to discriminate against others shows a gross lack o...
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Three rules for any article on AI : 1) AI does not yet have the the same kind of understanding as human intelligence. 2) There is no guar...
Too true :)
ReplyDeleteExcept if there's a Mormon as well. They wouldn't even enter the shop and drink hot chocolate in order to avoid the appearance of evil. ;)
ReplyDeleteGive it a few months. At least one of them will end up dead via a "friend" or relative of someone at that table. My money, what little I have, is on the Muslim being the catalyst.
ReplyDeleteDavid Lazarus What a clear prediction.
ReplyDeleteClear, but not, I suspect, even remotely correct :
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/are-all-terrorists-muslims-it-s-not-even-close.html
However what I can't find is a simple set of statistics showing the homicide rate per capita for different religions.
They don't need to be terrorists. Just fundamentalists or extremists.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I'd prefer to find about about homicide rates rather than terrorism. I'd still be willing to bet that the rate of homicides committed by Muslims per capita is no higher than for any other religious group.
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