[robindch]

[Pushtrak]

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/...,5374010.story

Those who think more analytically are less inclined to be religious believers than are those who tend to follow a gut instinct, researchers conclude.

Read more at the link. I'll also post the concluding bit of the article...

So does this mean that religious faith can be undermined with just a little extra mental effort? Not really, said Nicholas Epley, a social psychologist at the University of Chicago who was not involved in the study. But it does show that belief isn't set in stone, but can respond to a person's context.

"There's an illusion that our brains are more static than they actually are," he said. "We have fundamental beliefs and values that we hold, and those things seem sticky, constant. But it's easier to get movement on something fundamental."

As for whether this should alarm the layperson, Epley shrugged. "Even deeply religious people will point out they have had moments of doubt," he said.

[Jernal]

Originally Posted by Pushtrak

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/...,5374010.story

Read more at the link. I'll also post the concluding bit of the article...

*Cough* *five posts up from yours*

(Or four posts up on the previous page if you're awesome.)

[robindch]

Via /.:

See what Dublin would look like with an extra 7m of sea level:

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=53.3642,-6.2468&z=4

Discovery crashes planes for curiosity's sake:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/show...cumentary.html

Primordial soup available near Oslo:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47225834#.T55-CNntPCp

[Dades]

Originally Posted by robindch

Via /.:

See what Dublin would look like with an extra 7m of sea level:

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=53.3642,-6.2468&z=4

I'll have a close-to-seafront property if we get a 7m rise...

.. ker-CHING!

[Pushtrak]

Originally Posted by Dades

I'll have a close-to-seafront property if we get a 7m rise...

.. ker-CHING!

Evilution will have to give me gills or I'm fecked.

[magicbastarder]

interesting that o'connell street seems untouched by a 6m rise.

[Sonics2k]

It's a shame it's not another 20m

[joseph brand]

True size of Africa.

http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/18/true-size-of-africa/

Antarctica

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/An...rativeSize.jpg

Texas- Europe

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5...8guyo1_500.jpg

British Isles-Antarctica

http://scentofpine.files.wordpress.c...rctica_map.jpg

[smokingman]

Originally Posted by robindch

Via /.:

See what Dublin would look like with an extra 7m of sea level:

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=53.3642,-6.2468&z=4

Looks like I'm safe as long as it's not between 50 and 60 metres
"Build your house on a hill son, 'tis the only way..."

Suddenly my Dads old fashioned words have discovered some climatological meaning!

[Gbear]

Originally Posted by Dades

I'll have a close-to-seafront property if we get a 7m rise...

.. ker-CHING!

You can zoom out and scroll around the place.

Look at the Netherlands with +7

I have to say I wonder is it accurate.

7m is about 23ft. Ignoring the Netherlands, it doesn't seem to be that serious, particularly around cork.

I would've thought half the city would be under water.

[shizz]

I'm guessing it's just going by terrain altitude. Look at Australia after i think 20m? The middle of it s flooded.

[koth]

Highly Religious People Are Less Motivated by Compassion Than Are Non-Believers

"Love thy neighbor" is preached from many a pulpit. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that the highly religious are less motivated by compassion when helping a stranger than are atheists, agnostics and less religious people.

In three experiments, social scientists found that compassion consistently drove less religious people to be more generous. For highly religious people, however, compassion was largely unrelated to how generous they were, according to the findings which are published in the most recent online issue of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

[Mark Hamill]

Saw this on the "Photo's that shook the world" thread:


150 gigapixel image of a section of the Milky Way, comprised of a billion suns like our own. It represents less than 1% of the galaxy.

Zoom in to see each star.

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmoo...a/vvvgps5.html

[recedite]

Lizard found with a placenta*

* this upgrade not normally available to reptiles