Glenn Beck Gets Served on Climate Change
As a follow up to yesterday's post, here is MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan explaining evaporation to Glenn Beck:
Why People Laugh at Deniers
Good Rachel Maddow video explaining why people who say "It's a big blizzard, thus global climate change is not true" are laughed at.
(via fil's shared feed)
Skeptoid: Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids?
A fascinating podcast from Brian Dunning (of Skeptoid) about whether or not it was Jewish slaves who built the Egyptian pyramids (click link below to listen inline):
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I love his podcasts - they are usually 10-15 minutes long and focus on verifying claims and sussing out truth. See full transcript of this episode here.
The Universe, To Scale
I love these visualizations. This one takes you from the Himalayas all the way out to the space-time observational limit:
Seeing the curvature of the earth from space always makes my heart skip a beat - it's just so gorgeous.
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