Holy. Frakkin. Wow. So, I attended, no, experienced my very first Dragon*Con. It was on a scale of something that I have never seen before. Tens of thousands of freaks and geeks, many in costume, descended upon downtown Atlanta to…
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Purity in Religion?
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 1 Comment
Last week at the meeting of the Virginia Atheists and Agnostics, we had a fascinating talk by Chris Bell, titled “When are Tibetans not Buddhist?” Chris is working on a Ph.D in religious studies with a focus on, of course,…
More scary stuff…
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
If this doesn’t make you pissed off or raving mad, I don’t know what will. First, a terrorist attack on US soil, as blogged by PZ Myers. A mosque full with attendants for prayers was sprayed with a chemical irritant,…
Shermer…. in spaaaaaaace!
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
Michael Shermer blows my mind again with a nice op-ed in the LA Times entitled “Toward a Type 1 Civilization.” It’s nice to see free market economics supported with such optimism and with the inclusion of globalism as a good…
Bow chika South Pole!
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 2 Comments
A friend sent me this story (thanks!) this morning for a good chuckle. Apparently, the last shipment to the South Pole Research Station includes a year-long supply of condoms for the scientists and staff that winter over at the base.…
Dance, monkey, dance!
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
Thanks to Kelly for passing this along. We don’t need to be hypnotized! http://www.newsweek.com/id/67929/page/2 Now music all day, that I can handle.
Sunny California
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
I’ve been working at Berkeley for the past few days, and it’s been quite a nice, thought incredibly busy, time. On the way to the hotel from the airport, I thought about how every time I go to a new…
The commercialization of weddings…
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 3 Comments
I’m hanging out in the Charlottesville airport, a cute and cozy one by most standards, thinking about the past weekend I had with my friends and wedding gown fitting. We had an amazing time, and the bride-to-be looked absolutely gorgeous…