Now here’s a great reason to work on that attitude problem.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/health/cynical-dementia/index.html?hpt=hp_t2//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
Month: May 2014
It turns out that being a nonconformist requires an active and distressing deconditioning of our evolutionary wiring.
It turns out that being a nonconformist requires an active and distressing deconditioning of our evolutionary wiring.
http://explore.noodle.org/post/86508894713/a-team-of-neurobiologists-found-that-if-social//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
A New Holy Grail
Always, these claims that this medieval cup or that is the real Holy Grail. It’s been years since I did my survey of the claims, but here’s one I don’t think I’ve seen before.
“New book claims precious goblet in León’s San Isidro basilica is mythical chalice from which Christ sipped at last supper.
“Curators were forced to remove a precious cup from display in a Spanish church when crowds swarmed there after historians claimed it was the holy grail, staff said. . . .”
“The two historians – León University medieval history lecturer Margarita Torres and art historian José Manuel Ortega del Rio – identified it as the grail in their book, Kings of the Grail, published last week. . . .”
“In Europe alone there are 200 supposed holy grails, the Spanish researchers admitted. They attempted to debunk the authenticity of some of the better known candidates in their book.”
- Read the full article: “Crowds flock to Spanish church after holy grail claim“, in The Guardian (Mar. 31, 2014).
“[R]adiocarbon dating at the University of Edinburgh found it dated to 28 years either side of 1063 and was…
“[R]adiocarbon dating at the University of Edinburgh found it dated to 28 years either side of 1063 and was therefore likely to have been involved in fighting at the time of the Norman invasion and the Battle of Hastings.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-27446020//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
Wikipedia battleground
“Wikipedia was not meant to be the ideological ‘battleground’ that a large number of skeptics have made it into.”
Article deleted. Not saved in Wayback. Very unfortunate.
Wikipedia: A New Perspective on an Old Problem<https://realitysandwich.com/219326/wikipedia-a-new-perspective-on-an-old-problem/>
Here’s a substitute:
- Dan Wilder, “How the Skeptic Ideologues Control Wikipedia“, at Reality Sandwich (Oct. 23, 2013).
Edited May 13, 2020 to substitute a different link to equivalent content.