Inland Empire Atheists, Agnostics & Skeptics Meetup Group

A few members suggested watching the original Star Trek movies, so I am glad to open my home for a night of classic sci-fi entertainment. The order and movies played will be voted on, so if you sign up please leave a recommendation.

There will be snacks and refreshments, including fresh popcorn.

San Bernardino, CA 92408 - USA

Friday, May 6 at 6:30 PM

Attending: 5

Details: http://www.meetup.com/InlandEmpireAtheists/events/17412840/

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4/24/2011 4:31:00 PM
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This has to be the coolest machine translation idea I've seen for a while.



Imagine taking this app on vacation in a foreign country. Can language goggles be far behind?

Notice that it doesn't always try to twiddle the word order, even where it would be appropriate. On the other hand, it must be doing all kinds of text and character recognition under the hood. Not to mention colour and size matching. I bet later on they'll try font matching.

Now if I can just get a copy to [...]

From Good Reason
http://goodreasonblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/wordlens.html
12/17/2010 4:16:00 PM
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The following video contains the answers of Miss America contestants when asked if evolution should be taught in class rooms. Make all the jokes you want about the stereotype regarding how intelligent a beauty pageant contestant is (I was in a beauty pageant when I was in high school...so...uh...yea~), but their answers are pretty typical of what you'd get if you asked anyone from the general public. The problem isn't just a lack of understanding of what a scientific theory is. There's an larger problem at work here; the idea that knowledge is relative and that science is just another "story" among the many narratives we choose to tell ourselves.

From There Are Four Lights
http://www.saramayhew.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/as-intellectually-dishonest-as-a-miss-america-contestant/
6/24/2011 2:00:35 PM
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Let's face it. This week has just been one of those weeks, and it's not over yet. A little silly break is in order:

There, I fell better now.

Consider this a Thursday open thread. I haven't had an open thread in a while, and when things get busy enough it's a time-honored way of filling blog time...

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From Respectful Insolence
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2/11/2011 3:00:00 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/2/2010 1:08:34 PM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/3/2010 2:08:37 PM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/3/2010 4:10:33 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/7/2010 7:36:30 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/12/2010 3:08:24 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/13/2010 3:08:26 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/15/2010 1:24:42 PM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/27/2010 10:09:17 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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11/2/2010 1:28:00 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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2/18/2011 2:46:11 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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3/28/2011 11:26:56 AM
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Here at Neuroskeptic we have closely followed the development of fMRI scanning on fish.


But a new study has taken it to the next level by scanning... some cheese.

OK, this is not quite true. The [...]

From Neuroskeptic
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-fish-now-cheese-get-scanned.html
4/12/2011 6:15:00 PM
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Much more here.

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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/8/2010 12:03:37 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/31/2010 10:13:21 AM
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A re-enactment:

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From Greg Laden's Blog
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11/26/2010 6:44:40 AM
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This is Julia's school team:

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From Greg Laden's Blog
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12/2/2010 1:51:47 PM
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Coming to theaters near you:

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From Greg Laden's Blog
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1/14/2011 3:19:05 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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3/17/2011 8:18:17 AM
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Because you can policy wonk all you want, but sometimes you need a little poetry:

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From Mike the Mad Biologist
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3/21/2011 3:58:24 AM
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From Greg Laden's Blog
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4/14/2011 2:06:34 PM
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This is from a year ago or so:

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From Greg Laden's Blog
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10/11/2010 3:08:23 AM
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