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  • The Royal Society – Article
    Interesting. 'It is widely believed that Charles Darwin avoided publishing his theory of evolution for many years… This essay demonstrates that Darwin's delay is… overwhelmingly contradicted by the historical evidence.' via Carl Zimmer
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  • Should an atheist proselytize? « de-conversion
    Interesting. 'These stories have shown that there are a number of ways of supporting Christians who make steps towards de-conversion, but in almost every single case it appears that the doubt that led to de-conversion came from within the individual.'
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  • Chronotopic Anamorphosis on Vimeo
    via kottke, a neat video processing trick: 'The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distortion of the figures caused by their motion in time'
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  • Language Log » Stress in Supreme Court oral arguments
    Interesting: 'We applied automated measurement techniques to recordings of 78 hours of oral arguments from the U.S. Supreme court, in order to look at the (average) effects on pitch and time of primary word stress, secondary stress, and lack of stress.'
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  • Boomshine
    A gently addictive flash game. Best I think with the music turned off.
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