What makes Kentucky such a hotbed for religious theme parks and otherwise unscientific entertainment spectacles? First there was the infamous Creation Museum in Petersburg and now the forthcoming Ark Encounter theme park in nearby Williamstown.
Lindsay Tucker has written about the Ark Encounter in Newsweek Magazine, including a very interesting interview with Ken Ham representing the Young Earth Creationists. Here is the introduction to that piece:
Here is the transcript of a spot-on observation by Bill Maher from his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher (if you are an HBO subscriber, you can see the video). The original posting is at the Daily Kos.
Continue reading “Right-Wing Machismo: Fake or Myth?”An interactive map of every championship in the history of MLB, the NBA, the NHL, and the NFL.
By Chris Kirk|Posted Thursday, June 6, 2013, at 7:52 AM on Slate
This interactive method of viewing the distribution of sports championships around the country through time is fascinating. It is also applicable to many other subjects and I suspect visualization might make the results even more obvious (how about the distribution of Federal money to the states?).
A Celebration of Reading 