This is depressing.
Only 53% of adults know that it takes a year for the Earth to revolve around the sun and only 59% know that humans and dinosaurs didn't live at the same time.
Only 47% correctly approximate that about 70% of the surface of the Earth is covered with water.
Source: Harris Poll.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Crackdown on witches in Gambia
Amnesty International reports that Gambian security forces have detained up to 1,000 people on suspicion of being witches.
The Gambian police deny the claim, but Amnesty has first-hand accounts of victims being help in secret detention camps and forced to drink substances that have killed at least two people.
The president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh blames the death of his aunt on witchcraft.
In 2007 Jammeh claimed he had a cure for AIDS and treated people using herbs and incantations.
The Gambian police deny the claim, but Amnesty has first-hand accounts of victims being help in secret detention camps and forced to drink substances that have killed at least two people.
The president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh blames the death of his aunt on witchcraft.
In 2007 Jammeh claimed he had a cure for AIDS and treated people using herbs and incantations.
Friday, March 27, 2009
People we like
Here we have a veteran, a cat lover, and an Obama supporter with an FSM license plate frame and a Darwin fish.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Hypocrisy Report
ABC News reports:
Those states that ... consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption...."Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.
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