Here is the gargantuan ark Darren Aronofsky built straight out of the Bible onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Here is the gargantuan ark Darren Aronofsky built straight out of the Bible

We're still wrapping our brains around the biblical apocalypse movie that is Darren Aronofsky's Noah. It's got giants, angels, and one gigantic Ark that was constructed exactly how the Bible instructed. And here's everything you need to know about the behemoth boat in one video.

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"Save the Children" Makes a Dystopian Short Film onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com "Save the Children" Makes a Dystopian Short Film

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A new ad by NGO Save the Children imagines a modern day London ravaged by war. Can science fiction convince people to help the children of real, war-torn countries?

The question posed by the video is clear: What if London were Syria? "We hope the video will resonate with members of the public, particularly those who don't know much about the situation in Syria so they can really understand the plight of innocent Syrian children," said Jake Lundi, Director of Brand and Communications at Save The Children. "The message to the public is just because it's not happening here, doesn't mean it's not happening."

But the video is noteworthy not just for its message, but its format. The message, after all (which doubles as the ad's closing tag line) is far from unique. Charities have always dealt in language that appeals to empathy. But the creative decision to convey that message in the form of a second-a-day video – a style of documentation previously reserved for fun viral videos – is significant, especially in light of recent talk of apocalypsticles, distasteful clickbait, and the frivolous touting of war imagery for pageviews.

Is the union of virality and human suffering as unholy as it seems? Some have argued that disaster porn can serve as a gateway to good, responsible journalism. Videos like this suggest it can make for an effective commercial, as well.

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This small Netherlands town has streets named after Tolkien characters onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com This small Netherlands town has streets named after Tolkien characters

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In the little Dutch town of Geldrop there is a neighborhood with streets named after characters from the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien. You'll find the names of hobbits, dwarves, wizards and elves – but there's at least one name that's conspicuously absent.

Photo Credit: Manuel Pangaruy Jr.

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That name is "Bilbo." There's no reference to the hobbit anywhere in Geldrop (for that you'll have to drive 19 miles East, to the town of Someren, where there's a company that goes by "Frodo-Bilbo B.V."); you will, however, find mention of many other key figures, places and themes from Tolkien's assorted tales.

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Photo Credit: Manuel Pangaruy Jr.

Their names have been assigned to the streets and alleyways that branch off of Laan von Tolkien (i.e. "Tolkien Avenue," which has its own homeowner's association), to create a quaint little network of homes and businesses. There's a school at Saruman 1, a tennis club at Fangorn 23, and a physical therapist's office at Legolas 7. Here, have a look around:

Personally, I can see myself living in one of the houses on Aragorn street – looks to me like they have a great view of the neighborhood's beautiful cemetery.

Google Maps via Geekologie |Photos by Manuel Pangaruy Jr.

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Amazing Spider-Man 2 just keeps looking better and better onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Amazing Spider-Man 2 just keeps looking better and better

The more footage we get to see from Amazing Spider-Man 2, the more excited we get. And the latest trailer is full of even more endearing Peter Parker quips and epic web-slinging action. We are seriously excited.

The first turn Andrew Garfield made as Spider-Man was good, but hell if this doesn't look great. It feels like director Marc Webb is finally off the studio leash and playing around with a lot more "jokes," especially when Emma Stone screams Peter Parker's real name and then catches herself for revealing his identity — good, good stuff. We are unreasonably excited for this movie.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will hit theaters on April 2nd.

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6 P.M. is the most dangerous time of day to be a pedestrian onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com 6 P.M. is the most dangerous time of day to be a pedestrian

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At least in the winter. As the days get longer, the risk tapers off slowly, or gets pushed back an hour or two, as you can see in this chart of pedestrian risk over time. But, it's not just a chart — it's also a map.

It's the work of John Nelson, who has previously done visualizations that take a look at traffic fatalities and a series of "tornado travel maps." In this infographic chart, he plots out the risk of pedestrian accidents, as it changes over seasons and time.

While it's not surprising to see that pedestrian accidents increase as it gets darker, and decrease when the light is better, what is interesting is the way it forms what Nelson calls a "non-geographic map." On Nelson's blog, he explains why and how this kind of unintentional map is created by the data, not just from them:

Amazingly, or not so amazingly to the tougher nuts out there, is that the very roundness of Earth is echoed in the shape of the curve you see in this chart. It's like what I would expect to see from a rough radio telescope signal of some distant planet, only it's our planet. And the signal we see is an emergent reflection of our movements on its curved surface. These traffic events happened in the United States. But the curve would be the same for other Northern Hemisphere places, and it would bend the other way for places in the Southern Hemisphere. Because we live on something that is dynamic, data of our lives often reveals the signal of that dynamic process -a roundabout meta image of Earth. That's a map.

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TV This Week: Can Nathan Fillion rescue a Troy-less Community? onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com TV This Week: Can Nathan Fillion rescue a Troy-less Community?

This week, we bid farewell to American Horror Story: Coven; will this tale of New Orleans witches end on a high note, or will the magic fizzle out? Community goes on without Donald Glover, but Nathan Fillion is here to fill the hole in our hearts. Plus, catch clips and details from this week's episodes of Helix, Adventure Time, Arrow, and more!

Photo from NBC.com.

Monday

Adventure Time (7 PM, Cartoon Network)

Finn wants to be trained in swordfighting by an old gumball robot who lives in a junkyard. The robot's name: Rattleballs. And people say it's a kid's show.

Bitten (8 PM, Syfy)

The werewolf soap moves to a new timeslot with the episode "Trespass," in which Elena and Clay manage to track down the killer werewolf—but a deadly bloodbath follows.

Steven Universe (8 PM, Cartoon Network)

This week, Steven befriends a magical lion.

Beauty and the Beast (9 PM, The CW)

Is Vincent willing to reveal his beastly identity to save Cat's life?

A group of criminals looking to steal a rare necklace in Tori's (guest star Amber Skye Noyes) possession takes Cat (Kristin Kreuk), Tori and Tess (Nina Lisandrello) hostage at the precinct, leaving Vincent (Jay Ryan) as their only hope for help. Vincent is forced to make a decision since helping could reveal his true identity to the entire force.

Being Human (9 PM, Syfy)

Going from reverse werewolf to regular werewolf turns out to be complicated as Josh has trouble returning to his old life. Meanwhile, Sally finds herself thrown back in time to a time and place where something horrific seems to have happened to a mysterious little girl. And Boston has a new vampire boss — someone from Aidan's past.

Archer (10 PM, FX)

Archer's "Vice" season puts the ex-ISIS team in the path of the yakuza after Pam makes a deal that puts everyone in danger. It's up to Archer to put on his (slightly darker) black suit and save the day.

Lost Girl (10 PM, Syfy)

It's out of the Death Train and into the fire when Bo finds herself facing down a body jumper. Dyson rushes to find Bo, while Lauren tries to escape the Fae only to be double-crossed—and finds her past catching up with her.

Teen Wolf (10 PM, MTV)

While we digest Kira's electricity-absorbing powers, the crew has to deal with a group of creatures who seem to be prowling at a rave. Expect lots of black light.

Rick and Morty (10:30 PM, Adult Swim)

After Morty asks Rick to make him a love potion, he takes it to the school dance and finds that too much affection can be a bad thing.

Tuesday

Johnny Test (7:30 PM, Cartoon Network)

This week, we'll see Johnny and Dukey cheat to win the Red Gush contest. Then, Johnny X will face off against Boy Drone X.

The Originals (8 PM, The CW)

Discovering blood and guts isn't a good thing, even when you're a vampire:

Marcel (Charles Michael Davis), still angered by recent events, refuses to help Klaus (Joseph Morgan) when a gruesome discovery is made in the Cauldron. Rebekah (Claire Holt) is on alert when she uncovers the remnants of a sacrifice down by the docks and immediately realizes that it's the work of a dangerous warlock from their past. Meanwhile, when Elijah (Daniel Gillies) gets some information that Rebekah may be in trouble, he and Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) set off to find her. At Rousseau's, Cami (Leah Pipes) comforts Marcel, who opens up and shares some details of his past with her, but things quickly spiral out of control when an unexpected visitor shows up. Finally, a violent confrontation ensues when Klaus faces off against a powerful force with an unmatched advantage over him.

Supernatural (9 PM, The CW)

Garth is back — but something very shady is going on:

After finding out that Garth (guest star DJ Qualls) is in the hospital, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) go to check on him. Still carrying the guilt over Kevin, Dean lays into Garth about disappearing and demands to know where he's been. Garth makes an excuse and then hightails it away from the guys. Confused as to why Garth would run from them, Sam and Dean do some investigating and are stunned by what they find.

Also on tonight: Syfy's prosthetic makeup game show Face Off airs at 9 PM, and the theme is "Dragon's Breath."

Wednesday

Arrow (8 PM, The CW)

Things are looking no brighter for Laurel this week while Oliver deals with the complexities of taking on an apprentice.

Arrow (Stephen Amell) offers to train Roy (Colton Haynes) so he can learn to control his newfound super-strength. However, Roy is a rebellious student and refuses to listen unless Arrow reveals his true identity, which Oliver refuses to do. Meanwhile, the Bronze Tiger (guest star Michael Jai White) escapes from prison and steals Malcolm's earthquake machine to sell to the highest bidder. Oliver, Diggle (David Ramsey) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) attempt to stop the transfer, but Roy gets in the way, putting everyone in danger. Laurel (Katie Cassidy) is disbarred and spirals out of control. Moira (Susanna Thompson) is thrilled when Walter (guest star Colin Salmon) asks her to dinner, but his reason surprises her.

Dreamworks' Dragons: Defenders of Berk (8 PM, Cartoon Network)

In "A Tale of Two Dragons," Hookfang and Stormfly quarrel while the town prepares for the harvest.

Revolution (8 PM, NBC)

Revolution is at its best when it keeps personal drama to a minimum, but when Monroe leads Charlie on a mission, uncomfortable interactions are sure to follow.

Monroe (David Lyons) leads Connor (Mat Vairo) and Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) on a risky mission, as Miles (Billy Burke) and Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell) keep an eye on things in Willoughby. Meanwhile, Neville (Giancarlo Esposito) gets a new assignment and Aaron (Zak Orth) reunites with an old friend.

Nova (9 PM, PBS)

This week, the show tackles the mysteries of some of Ireland's bog bodies, hunting for clues to their identities and the circumstances of their deaths.

The Tomorrow People (9 PM, The CW)

Stephen is suspicious of all the new people in his life, and that probably isn't a bad instinct.

Stephen (Robbie Amell) feels uneasy about his fellow trainee Hillary (guest star Alexa Vega, "Spy Kids") who has a secret agenda of her own. Stephen's mom wants the family to go camping including her new boyfriend Peter (guest star Robert Gant), whom Stephen seems to be having a difficult time reading. Knowing he is going to be out of town, Stephen asks for Cara (Peyton List) and John's (Luke Mitchell) help to make sure that everything is ok with Astrid (Madeleine Mantock) while he's gone.

American Horror Story: Coven (10 PM, FX)

How will American Horror Story wrap up its series of witchy madness? The episode description promised that "A new Supreme rises."

Also on tonight: The third season of Cartoon Network's Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu premieres at 7 PM.

Thursday

Community (8 PM, NBC)

This is Community's first episode after Troy's post-apocalyptic departure, but at least Dan Harmon and his crew lined up a fantastic consolation prize: Nathan Fillion.

It's time for the midterm dance and Annie (Alison Brie) sets about getting the Greendale cafeteria ready for the festivities. She and Professor Hickey (guest star Jonathan Banks, "Breaking Bad") team to navigate Greendale's custodial corridors of power and must negotiate with Bob Waite (guest star Nathan Fillion, "Castle"), the politically savvy Greendale head custodian, and his right-hand man Lapari (Kumail Nanjiani, "Franklin & Bash"). They must also contend with Debra Chambers (guest star Paget Brewster, "Criminal Minds"), Greendale's head of I.T. and Waldron (guest star Robert Patrick, "Identity Thief"), Greendale's head of parking, in what becomes an increasingly complex hierarchy of staff.

The Vampire Diaries (8 PM, The CW)

Somehow Damon bringing Enzo a "gruesome present" sounds like a cat carrying a dead mouse home, but with more hair product involved.

When Enzo (guest star Michael Malarkey) brings Damon (Ian Somerhalder) a gruesome present and insists that they bond by committing an act of revenge, Damon makes an effort to do the honorable thing. After finding himself in awkward and confusing conversations with Nadia (guest star Olga Fonda), Matt impulsively decides to throw a party, where Caroline (Candice Accola) makes a stunning confession to Elena (Nina Dobrev), then has to face the consequence of her actions with Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Tyler (Michael Trevino). Aaron (guest star Shaun Sipos) does his best to make amends for his family's past misdeeds and start a new life for himself. Finally, Elena suddenly finds herself in a life-threatening situation with only minutes to figure out how to save herself.

Friday

Helix (10 PM, Syfy)

The members of the CDC team comes to realize that no one at the base is who they claim to be. And as you can see in the clip above, a guy can't even do something as simple as burning a field full of monkeys without things getting creepy. Go figure.

Saturday

Mythbusters (8 PM, Discovery)

Do you want to replicate the Mythbusters' experiments but would rather not blow up your house? You're in luck: this week's episode is called "*Do* Try This at Home," and it's filled with experiments that don't require ballistics training and an in-house firefighting crew.

Atlantis (9 PM, BBC America)

A word of advice: If you come across an abandoned feast in a world filled with magic and gods, don't eat it, no matter how hungry you are.

A starving Jason makes a fatal error by eating sacrificial meat. It soon becomes clear that Jason's gluttony has come at a price as he begins to exhibit strange behavior. As things spiral out of control, Hercules and Pythagoras must save him.

Sunday

If you're watching the Superbowl this week, keep your eyes peeled for the latest trailers and scifi-themed commercials. If you're watching the Puppy Bowl, be careful not to hurt yourself with all that squeeing.

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The U.S. is helping China's smog reach all the way back to America onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com The U.S. is helping China's smog reach all the way back to America

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China may be the world's leading contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, but newly published findings show that much of the country's pollution is generated by the manufacture of goods for other nations, including the U.S. The irony: Pollution wafting overseas from China has a sizable impact on air quality along America's West Coast.

Top Photo of sever air pollution in Beijing by Feng Li/Getty Images.

So just how much of China's smog is the U.S. responsible for? In this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of climate modelers, emissions experts and economists led by Peking University's Jinai Lin conclude that in 2006 alone, between one-fifth and one-third of China's air pollution was associated with the production of goods for export. Of that portion, roughly a fifth was tied to the manufacture of U.S. goods. By those figures, America contributes to somewhere between four and six percent of China's pollution problem.

Of course, the harsh reality about pollution is that it is never just one country's problem. Pollutants and the winds on which they're carried harbor no respect for international borders. "We've outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but some of it is blowing back across the Pacific to haunt us," said co-author Steve Davis, of University of California Irvine, in a statement. The researchers' findings indicate that, for West Coast cities like Los Angeles, that haunting has been to the tune at least one extra day of smog per year, due to nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide generated by Chinese factories. On any given day, the researchers report, the sulphate generated from Chinese plants can account for as much as 24% of sulphate pollution over the western United States. If that's not karmic comeuppance, I don't know what is.

The study serves as an compelling reminder that, in a global economy, you can outsource manufacturing – and, to some extent, pollution – but you can't outsource culpability. "This part of the analysis tells us that we should really be doing a consumer-based analysis to fully account for who's responsible for emissions," study co-author Donald Wuebbles, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told National Geographic.

"...it puts responsibility on those who are also consumers as well as those who produce emissions. That means we have to bear some fraction of the responsibility [for emissions produced in other countries]."

The researchers' findings are presented in the latest issue of PNAS.

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The Doctor Who comic license returns to jolly old England onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com The Doctor Who comic license returns to jolly old England

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It's not quite the level of Dark Horse losing Star Wars, but IDW has to be smarting today after Titan Comics announced they'll be taking over the Doctor Who license and publishing comics later this year — including the first comics featuring the Twelth Doctor, Peter Capaldi.

Titan is based in England, but they obviously have a sizable presents in the States, having published titles like Death Sentence, Solid State Tank Girl, It Came!, and more. I hadn't really been able to read much of IDW's Who comics, so I don't know if this is great news, a tragedy, or just something to note. Of course, it'll be helpful when Titan announces the new writer/artists teams here in a few weeks. Anybody especially happy, sad or furious at this change?

(Top imag: "12eyes" by Deviant artist loridb. There's no Titan art yet, obviously, and it seemed weird to use an IDW comic image.)

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The Man Who Invented The Telephone Was A Secret Speed Freak onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com The Man Who Invented The Telephone Was A Secret Speed Freak

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On February 14th, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell got his name put in the history books when he beat fellow inventor Elisha Gray to the patent office with his new creation, the telephone. And while the telephone's importance to humanity is neat, it's not exactly Bell's most adrenaline-pumping idea. For that, you need water. And speed.

Unlike anybody else who might be tempted to rest on their laurels after inventing the single greatest communications device known to man at the time, which would later give birth to the Internet and cell phones and even those mysterious devices of wonder, beepers, Bell didn't just sit around for the next 46 years. He kept right on inventing, right on looking for the next big thing.

Four years after inventing the telephone, he invented an early precursor to mobile communications and fiber optics with his photophone device. The photophone transmitted noises and speech over distances as far as 700 feet, all on a beam of light. And while light moves at 186,000 miles per second, which is pretty fast, you can't ride a beam of light, unless you're Albert Einstein.

But at that early stage of his life, meaning when he was in his fifties, Bell wasn't interested in moving human quickly, only their voices. Moving as fast as a horse could take him was perfectly fine, thank you very much. Until he met a young chap named Casey Baldwin.

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Baldwin's dead-eyed stare in the photograph above may only hint at unfriendly photography norms of the day, but I think it reflects a common element in most people with a hankering for moving quickly. Only at extreme speed could his face light up, a condition that afflicts all great racers.

In 1906, Baldwin was a recent graduate of the University of Toronto with two engineering degrees, and, like any young go-getter ever, decided that his next career move was to simply go and shack up with one of the greatest inventors of his day, in Nova Scotia. Why Alexander Graham Bell and his wife, Mabel, ever agreed to let this precocious kid just come and live with him, for no reason at all, other than he was a bright kid, we may never know. But they did.

And the partnership that resulted was the one of the world's most enduring watercraft world speed records.

Baldwin and Bell were enchanted by the recent invention of the airplane by the Orville and Wilbur Wright, and quickly set up an organization to build planes of their own. The Aerial Experiment Association was short-lived, but beyond Bell and Baldwin it also included luminaries like Glenn Curtiss, who later went on to found the Curtiss Aircraft Company, and Thomas Selfridge, the first person to ever die in a plane crash.

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So you know they were in good company. Sort of.

The AEA didn't invent a whole lot, and it disbanded in 1909, but the partnership between Bell and Baldwin wasn't done. Baldwin continued to push Bell in the pursuit of velocity, in addition to a push for anything and everything that had wings on it.

Inspired by a 1906 article in Scientific American, Baldwin and Bell set out to build what they called a "hydrodrome." At first the idea was to build an airplane that could take off from water, but then they turned to a different idea – the hydrofoil.

In case you're not familiar with how a hydrofoil works, it's basically a boat on skis. It looks like a normal boat at rest, but at speed the skis lift the boat out of the water, reducing drag immensely, and that's when the speeds really come on. A modern hydrofoil looks like this:

The effect makes it look as if the boat is flying just a few feet over the water, and it can all be weirdly unsettling.

But Bell and Baldwin didn't care how it looked, and they set out to build a hydrofoil of their own. Of course, there's no better publicity for an invention than to just go about smashing world records with it and then getting rich because isn't that how records work, so that's what they set out to do.

Watercraft HD-1 through HD-3 were developmental models, and as such don't really bear worth mentioning as, let's be honest, they were all kind of slow and a bit boring and they tended to crash. The epitome of their work, though, was built after the end of World War I. It was the HD-4.

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It's a bit of a chintzy looking thing, but then it would be, as it was derived from a turn-of-the-century idea of what an airplane should resemble, and then it looks like they slapped the entire thing together with some leftover plywood, broken ladders, and maybe some rope.

Powered by two 250-horsepower Renault engines attached to two whirling propellers spinning through the air, which must've been very safe, and then by two 350-horsepower Liberty engines supplied by the US Navy, Bell's HD-4 set out on the water of Bras d'Or Lake in Nova Scotia, Canada to claim the world speed record on water. It looks like it would never be able to move, let alone achieve any sort of real wind-in-your-face sensations, but move it did.

On September 9th, 1919, propelled by over 700 horsepower, the HD-4 shot across the inland sea at 70.86 miles per hour, and grabbed the world record. Somehow, the thing that looked like it would fall apart in two seconds managed to beat everyone else.

While the US Navy liked Bell and Baldwin's idea enough that they'd loan them some engines, they didn't like it enough to actually purchase the boat. Neither did the British. HD-4 was dismantled in 1921, and its hull spent the next few decades abandoned on shore.

Unfortunately HD-4 no longer exists, but a sort-of replica now resides at the Alexander Graham Bell museum in Nova Scotia.

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Even if you could get it into the water, though, you'd never convince me to ride on top.

Photo credit: Dr Wilson

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'Amateur paleontologist' Newt Gingrich says global warming is A-OK onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com 'Amateur paleontologist' Newt Gingrich says global warming is A-OK

Speaking on CNN's Crossfire last night, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich argued that a hotter planet may be just fine — because dinosaurs and perpetual Caribbean vacations.

Describing himself as an "amateur paleontologist," [ahem] Gingrich rhetorically asked Crossfire co-panelist Van Jones what the right temperature of the planet should be.

"Assume for a minute that we have the capacity to actually decide the planet's temperature," he said. "What kind of hubris does it take to say, 'I know exactly what this planet's temperature ought to be and I'm going to manage it to that effect?'"

Jones responded by stating he would prefer to see the Earth's temperature remain within the average that it has been for the last 10,000 years of human civilization, adding that humanity should explore alternatives to the use of carbon-based fuels.

"The problem is, if we put the foot on the accelerator with this experiment we're doing — we're the only planet that we know — and we're wrong, and we end up cooking the planet, that's a bad outcome you can't recover from," Jones said. He also pointed out that humanity did not exist in that era.

To which Gingrich responded: "The age of the dinosaurs was dramatically warmer than this is right now and it didn't cook the planet," Gingrich responded. "In fact, life was fine." He also said that Minnesotans escaping to the Caribbean during this current frigid winter shows that "slightly warmer wouldn't be a crisis."

So there you have it. Forget about superstorms, mass extinctions, rising sea levels, and the spread of tropical diseases. And let's conveniently ignore the fact that we're dealing with anthropogenic global warming — an unprecedented global phenomenon that could produce completely unpredictable and catastrophic results.

[h/t Raw Story]

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On correlation, causation, and the "real" cause of autism onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com On correlation, causation, and the "real" cause of autism

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Here for spreading far and wide is a graphical reminder of the important distinction between correlation and causation.

Redditor Jasonp55 writes that he was practicing Graph Pad when he produced the chart above and discovered the "real" cause of autism: organic food.

His tongue is obviously firmly in his cheek here, but it is a simple and compelling example of how susceptible we can be to logical fallacies, cognitive biases, and extracting what we believe to be meaningful information from insignificant or coincidental data. As Cory Doctorow notes over at Boing Boing, "this a potentially useful chart for discussing this issue with friends who won't vaccinate themselves and their kids."

[reddit via Boing Boing]

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