Also, if YouTube suddenly went down, 68% of worldwide blog content posted in 2008 would instantly evaporate.
h/t to Friendly Atheist

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“The Abortion Curriculum Has Left the Classroom,” a scary explanation of how medical students are graduating these days with a hole in their repertoire.
Spark is a category for sharing links. No intense commentary, just a link & a brief reason you might want to click on it. Something to Spark your Mind to Flame, if […]

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Religion is often pitted against science (sometimes against Science), as though it’s synonymous with atheism. Scientific arguments against the Divine were never compelling to me, since it seemed like they were combining unrelated concepts: if something on a metaphysical does or does not exist, appealing to the physical means nothing.
But the lines are drawn: science […]

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Some students at the Vancouver Film School put together this beautiful film project that presents creationism in modern science/business language and the birth of our solar system and the evolution of life in archaic, religious language and imagery.  I could say it’s provocative and thought-inducing, but I won’t.  It’s just plain fun, dammit.  Here we […]

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I can barely keep my eyelids propped open, but I wanted to share some thoughts before I lie down for some sweet, sweet rest.
We live in a stranger universe than anything we could imagine on our own. Recent science news give tiny little snapshots of this crazy reality:

Scientists have discovered a black hole that […]

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When I was in high school, I idolized Carl Sagan.  After watching Cosmos on PBS, my imagination would be fired up with visions of black holes and humid primeval forests.  He filled me with wonder at the vastness of the universe and the natural miracle that is life and intelligence.  I hesitate to make comparisons […]

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John Scalzi, SF author and blogger extraordinaire (famous for Bacon Taped to Cat and the recipe for Schadenfreude Pie that we baked to celebrate the 2006 Democratic victory), gives us a guided tour of the infamous Creation Museum:
Here’s how to understand the Creation Museum:
Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we’re not talking […]

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Virtual Tour of of the Creation Museum (flickr slideshow, h/t to bw)
Alternate link to regular flickr photo set.
Two (cute) heathens don homemade Jesus t-shirts (”I pity the foo who don’t LOVE JESUS” and “GOD don’t need NO science) and enter the Creationism Museum so the rest of us don’t have to. Save the twenty […]

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I wrote this post a few days ago, in anticipation of a final paper due tomorrow. Here at Mind on Fire, we are committed to providing you with consistent quality content!
As we walked out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I explained to GameBoy why the annual Open House was a necessary thing.

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Sacrificed a day of studying and took GameBoy up to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Annual Open House. It’s a huge event. In fact, it’s a lot like Disneyland–distant parking lots, gaggles of families with young kids, and long lines. Only instead of rides, there’s science. And science beats out everything that […]

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