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December 21, 2010

E-Fringe-elism

IO9 has suggestions on how to save Fringe from a fate that some will consider...

December 21, 2010

Puritans Ban Christmas (and other 300+ year old news)

The Lead highlights a post by Paul Flesher about something that most Americans complaining about...

December 21, 2010

Website on Islam and Science Fiction

Thanks to Irtiqa for pointing out the existence of a web site dedicated to Islam...

December 21, 2010

The Year 2010’s Christian News Roundup in Rhyme

Matthew Paul Turner has posted a rhyming roundup of the year's events related to Christianity...

December 21, 2010

Lunar Eclipse Video

Thanks to IO9 for sharing this video of last night's lunar eclipse, for those of...

December 21, 2010

Tracking Down the Satan-Snake

Abnormal Interests has a post in which Duane Smith discusses his attempt to track down...

December 21, 2010

Professor Obvious on Participation Grades

Thanks to everyone who has chimed in on my post on participation grades. In addition...

December 21, 2010

A Million Hits

Apparently someone wanted to be the millionth hit on Exploring Our Matrix very badly. Today...

December 21, 2010

Total Eclipse of the…Total Eclipse

Due to significant cloud cover, the lunar eclipse early this morning was not visible in...

December 21, 2010

Religious Discrimination, Science, and Christmas

Jesus Creed has been focusing a lot of attention on matters of religion and science...

December 21, 2010

NT Wrong on why Matthew and Luke’s Infancy Stories do not stand up as History

Mark Stevens has a guest post by NT Wrong about issues of historicity in the...

December 21, 2010

Religion and Science Halos

Arni Zachariassen shared a cartoon from Mikey Burton. Burton labelled it as comparing a good...

December 21, 2010

Grades Are In!

It is that time of year again, as winter begins and joy fills the hearts...

December 21, 2010

Jesus Auto-Complete Fail

A colleague sent this to me:

December 21, 2010

Domnuleţ şi Domn în Cer

The video version on YouTube of the Bucharest Madrigal Choir singing this carol is cut...

December 21, 2010

Approaching Milestone

Those few readers who regularly scroll all the way to the bottom of the blog...

December 21, 2010

Children Tell The Story Of Christmas (With Minor Amusing Variations)

Jesus Needs New PR

December 20, 2010

Tron Christmas Special

Apparently there was a Tron Christmas special once upon a time - or at least...

December 20, 2010

Pro-Life (A Short Story)

Inspired by a recent post of mine, Ian has written a short science fiction story...

December 20, 2010

Participation Grades

I've tried to use participation grades and I'm thinking the time has come to ditch...

December 20, 2010

PhD Studentship on the Bible and Spirituality

Daniel Kirk shares details about a PhD studentship at the University of Gloucester, focused on...

December 20, 2010

Clayboy on Q’s Christmas Story

Doug Chaplin explores the possibility that some of the commonalities between Matthew and Luke in...

December 20, 2010

More on the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Trial Anniversary from the NCSE

The National Center for Science Education has shared another retrospective of their own as well...

December 20, 2010

Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing

Volume 13, Issue 3 of the Journal of Electronic Publishing includes articles on open access...

December 20, 2010

Merry Kitzmas!

Several bloggers have drawn attention to the fact that it was 5 years ago today...

December 20, 2010

An Experiment in Testing Digital Literacy

As I mentioned previously on my blog, this semester I tried something different in my...

December 20, 2010

Scholarship and the Language of Belief

Student assignments I've read this year seem to describe the conclusions of scholars as their...

December 20, 2010

Seussian Gnosticism

Students of Gnosticism are bound to be familiar with Sethian, Valentinian, and a few other...

December 20, 2010

Why the Man in Black Couldn’t Find the Light

Apparently it is sometimes to be found in the vicinity of Buffalo, New York.(See the...

December 20, 2010

The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Bill Carraher has closed his well-known blog Archaeology of the Mediterranean World and begun a...

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