kulturbrille:amanuensis

• Pharyngula: Do you believe in evolution … and why?
  (tags: science religion evolution)
• Get More From Google Reader - Wired How-To Wiki
  (tags: internet google)
• Medical Dispatch: Superbugs: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
  (tags: science medicine)
• Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran - National Geographic Magazine
  (tags: travel)
• Staycations by The Writers - The Morning News
  (tags: travel)
• Scientology's Antagonists, page 1 - News - SF Weekly - SF Weekly
  (tags: religion politics)
• Seed: Black and White and Desired All Over
  (tags: science conservation)

Fishbowl is back, of course; it took 3 weeks and many lurching, roaring experiences in a forgotten replacement to drive home the point.

10 minutes, a moment to catch one’s breath, somewhere out there, by the river, looking back on a blog-void (collect them!) of 2 months, thinking if there really is anything to be said here and now that I haven’t already quietly mouthed in the last few weeks. There will be respite soon, from the trundling momentum of event after event, but then I will literally be washed up on the beach, dripping, blinking, noting very carefully the sand between my toes and the sun on my face.

And now, they would say, it is the time for action. No longer can we stand balefully outside the window, no longer can we stamp our feet on the cracked pavement. No longer can we allow our brethren and assorted associated lumps of flesh and blood to breathe this putrid air, no longer can we tolerate ignorance, prejudice, and a litany of other half-misunderstood intolerances. We must stand up and be counted, there will be change, whether we want it or not. You are the key, the wretched instrument of my salvation. Your time is past, do something useful with what little you have left. Take this change, seize it with both your hands, if you are able, and hop around in a dance of euphoria, at least until the joint ends. Thank you! Thank you!

• The Democratic Primaries in 8 minutes
  If there’s one link I’d put up…
  (tags: america politics)
• A thriller in ten chapters | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books
  (tags: books guardian)

• 2902 GALLERY
  (tags: singapore photography art)
• Singapore Sports Council introduces first-ever National Cheer Challenge
  Sigh.
  (tags: education singapore)

• BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Radio 4 news hit by giggling fit
  (tags: uk wot)

• Polly Toynbee: Religion doesn’t rule in this clash of moral universes | Comment is free | The Guardian
  (tags: religion philosophy politics policy)
• The Obama Doctrine | The American Prospect
  (tags: america politics)
• Defending Dictatorship: Another View on Pakistan | n+1
  (tags: asia politics)

• academicsecret: Argh! (A Play in Infinite Acts)
  (tags: science)
• Maverick Philosopher Is Religion the Problem? Why Isn’t Belief As Such the Problem? The Special Pleading of Some Atheists
  (tags: religion god)
• Is Intelligent Design Required by Biological Life? | Uncommon Descent
  (tags: science god)
• Physics and Physicists: Considering Science Education
  (tags: education science)
• denialism blog : Were the ancients fools?
  (tags: ideas)
• Carl Zimmer’s Dissection: Distinguishing the Artificial From the Natural Is Possible, for Now
  (tags: science)
• SIFF letter
  (tags: singapore film)
• A Guide to the French. Handle With Care. - New York Times
  (tags: culture paris)
• Iain Banks » Matter
  (tags: book literature)
• Serero’s Eiffel Tower Observation Deck (NOTCOT)
  (tags: paris design)

• For Scientists, a Beer Test Shows Results as a Litmus Test - New York Times
  Denial. All of us, in denial.
  (tags: drink science)

• Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine - New York Times
  (tags: internet design)
• YouTube - 可愛い、短足マンチカン！
  Muffin and munchkin.
  (tags: wot)
• Great poets of the 20th century | guardian.co.uk Books
  Even if we can’t afford them here…
  (tags: magazines literature books poetry)
• Monocle
  My best rediscovery.
  (tags: magazines design culture art journalism politics photography)
• Colophon2009 - International Magazine Symposium Luxembourg
  How does one find the time?
  (tags: magazines design ideas)
• England: The Land Of Subtle Idiosyncracies - a photoset on Flickr
  (tags: uk photography)
• Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin - The Morning News
  Someday sometime, soon.
  (tags: paris travel culture)
• Fatal flaw - The Boston Globe
  (tags: philosophy science)
• Jeremy Clarkson Renault Laguna Sport Tourer Dynamique review | Driving - Times Online
  (tags: cars)

• The Loom : A Request For The Hive Mind: Did Darwin Write About Microbes?
  There’ll be no end to the story.
  (tags: science evolution)
• EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA: 5 Priorities on Higher Education Issues
  Transparency, accountability… How long, the road.
  (tags: malaysia education)
• The Amateur Gourmet - Food Tastes Better When It Has a Good Story
  Now if I let myself tag every link with food, a story, and photos, it’ll be the end of my sanity. Ah.
  (tags: food narratives)
• Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies // Centripetal Notion
  (tags: books art design)
• The Islamification of France | The Brussels Journal
  Hardly indicative.
  (tags: religion)
• lolvogue - Jezebel
  For muffin.
  (tags: wot magazines)
• Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes
  What makes a thing right?
  (tags: america politics photography culture)
• A Skunk Walks into a Bar . . .: Science News Online, Dec. 3, 2005
  (tags: drink)
• Foreign Policy: Iraq By the Numbers
  (tags: politics)
• Vintage Logos - a photoset on Flickr
  (tags: design)
• Expelled! - The Panda’s Thumb
  (tags: wot science evolution)
• CNS STORY: Polish priest-cosmologist wins prestigious Templeton Prize
  (tags: science evolution god)
• PLoS Biology - Transplant Biology at a Crossroads
  (tags: science)
• BBC NEWS | Education | Teachers tick off school minister
  (tags: education uk)
• My Starbucks Idea
  (tags: wot coffee internet)
• New Scientist Short Sharp Science Blog: The ethics of mixing science and religion
  (tags: ethics science religion)