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How badly do you think Confirmation Bias has an effect on the Creationist viewpoint?

Has that guy ever heard of "Cycles of Poverty"? Link 1, Link 2

I don't know if this had been discussed before, but I just got a crazy idea of a crossover. Let's just say by some freak cosmic event, a continent from a Dungeons and Dragons fantasy setting (E.g. Faerun from "Forgotten Realms", Oerik from "Greyhawk", Eredane from "Midnight&...

The Conservatives are playing the long game too - ever heard of the Quiverfull movement? Really, if they keep trying again and again, it's only a matter of when, not if, they succeed.

Remember the Tasmanians? THAT is going to happen (minus the warfare, plus loads of poaching).

Check this out: Shenzhou-10: China launches next manned space mission By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News Three astronauts blasted away from the Jiuquan base in Inner Mongolia on a Long March 2F rocket at 17:38 Beijing time (09:38 GMT). The commander, Nie Haisheng, and his crew, Zhang X...

On another note. Is the Killing Star a good read? The characters are a bit less developed, and it's a little dry, plus a few mistakes in the science, but it has lot of good ideas and is generally very hard as a Sci-Fi, and the story (composed of many plot threads covering multiple survivors) is fla...

Well, then again we can't exactly apply international policy between Humans to aliens who are probably fundamentally different biologically and psychologically from Humanity in many ways, save perhaps being Apex predators. Plus, a key staple of the concept is that no species interested in its survi...

The fundamental proposition is wrong. There are a lot of reasons why relativistic missiles fired over interstellar distances aren't sure-fire antiplanet weapons. There are also a lot of reasons why, for an advanced civilization which had easy space travel and the capability to build relativistic in...

I recently came across an old, obscured hard science fiction book by Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski called "The Killing Star" . The book was published in 1995 and had since gone out of print. It's a little dry, and have a few flaws like a few scientific mistakes and inadequate ...

From the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20421576 Women bishops vote a 'grim day', says Justin Welby COMMENTS (16) The Bishop of Durham, Justin Welby, urged a 'yes' vote at the general synod Continue reading the main story Related Stories Tears and anger over synod vote Q&A: Women bishops vote...

What if someone decides to hack the downloading technology to plant misinformation? Brainwashing? What if people decide to do the thing in reverse to pull off the ultimate identity theft? Or overwrite a person's personality and identity (aka the Mind) completely via wiping the previous guy's memorie...

Star Trek Deep Space Nine is known for being darker and being anti-thesis to Gene Roddenberry's vision of Star Trek, which is especially prevalent in the Dominion War arc. One of the most notable inclusions of the darker aspects of the United Federation of Planets is Section 31, a clandestine, auton...

Ladies and gentleman, a preview video of the Season 3 Opening two-parter had been leaked into the internet. Hope the link works:

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=946725347899

With Curiosity rover making important geological discoveries on Mars, I done some browsing on the internet about Mars in general. While at it, I managed dig up this study called "Project Deimos". This project, thought up originally by Philip Bono of the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1964 (FY...

He shall be remembered as long as Human civilization lasts...

Stark wrote:And don't forget, 40k has all this porridge without being interesting about it. If you want to explore some concept, 40k is probably the worst place to look. If you 'discover' more ancient anime, you'll find plenty of settings far more interesting than blandhammer.

For example?

Stark wrote:Of all the things to do once you 'discover' an ancient anime show, you want to cross it with 40k? Christ.

Whoops, had that became a pattern? I should stop then.

Armoured Trooper VOTOMS was a mecha anime, and one of the finest ever produced, that was broadcasted during the Japanese Mecha boom of the 1980s. It was well known for its gritty sci-fi hardness. For those who don't know, the mecha in the series, VOTOMS, or the "Vertical One-man Tank for Offens...

Let's just say an advanced, violent non-anthromorphic alien race decides to build mechs to fight planetary wars, should they design their mechs' shapes in reference to their own non-anthromorphic bodies (much like how most mechs in Human science fiction are portrayed, bipedal and human-shaped) or ar...

I'm a Brony, I'll make no secret of that. Haven't wrote anything in a while, so I thought - why not do a story set in the MLP FIM universe? Thus, this dark little tale was born. I wrote this as an exercise partly to express my dislike of Changelings, partly as a practice on how to write a 'War is He...

MLP FIM - An Act of Necessary Evil by SpaceMarine93 This is not a long story, and what happened is neither justified or condemned. This is merely a scene of a bigger tale, about how a pony who, because of circumstances, had to do something he would never forgive himself for, and thus not only betra...

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It's ridiculous, really, how utterly irresponsible people are to society. From BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18983010 The lengths people go to, to avoid paying tax By Colm O'Regan Comedian and writer Can you imagine it filled with $1 bills? Continue reading the main story In today's Magazi...

From BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18926892 Gene therapy nears approval in Europe By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Gene therapies alter a patient's DNA Continue reading the main story Related Stories Gene therapy 'to protect sight' Gene therapy 'treats' Parkinson...