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Thoughts? Nice to have a Rockstar game that isn't rattling the controversy sabre straight away - and they're playing to their strengths, IMO, prioritising good storytelling over action setpieces. The acting is pretty sweet, as is the evidence gathering. It does seem also to indicate...

Like/dislike? Nice to have a longer and slightly more challenging Portal game, IMO. Disappointed that there weren't really any hints for Half-Life 2: Episode 3.

Oxygen detected on Saturn's moon Rhea | Science | guardian.co.uk

Thoughts so far? I'm finding myself a tiny bit irritated by how the story started off (and I'd say more if I could get the chuffing spoiler tags to work...). But otherwise, still good fun.

BBC News - Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'

Anyone else exploring the Mojave? Congrats to Obsidian for releasing their least buggy game so far!

Given that the Bible is perfect and divinely inspired by an omnipotent and omniscient deity and is allegedly straightforward to understand, how come there are so many varying types of creationism? Given this fact, why do so many creationists reject science but then inconsistently accept...

Science is vital: Science is Vital Sign the petition if you oppose Vince Cable's science funding cuts (made on a misinterpretation of the last RAE). If you want to march on The Treasury this Saturday, feel free to tag along ;)

Thoughts? Wiley::Faith in God Associated with Improved Survival After Liver Transplantation

What's the deal with it? I get the impression it's not highly rated, but those quickest to dismiss it that I've encountered have usually been creationists. Given a certain kind of thought, surely some ideas will stand to survive better than others? Memetics - Wikipedia, the free...

German church disowns Terry Jones, Qur'an-burning American preacher | World news | The Guardian Leave it to the Germans to make it clear that book burning is a stupid idea. No need for this kind of nonsense in Europe, thank you very much! :wave:

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Leaving aside the Wedge Strategy and that clip of Richard Dawkins from Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed that seems to tickle creationists for some reason: The usual candidate for a natural ID is being seeded by an advanced alien civilisation. The universe is about 13.7 Gyr old, our planet is...

(Disclaimer: I fully realise I'm using a loaded word here, I'm only using it for the concept and not trying to imply that I think atheists want to commit genocide...) ...isn't "antitheistic" atheism a form of eugenics? As I understand it, one of the common objections to Nazi eugenics...

So as some of you may know, I'm a physicist by trade/training but the origins debate covers a whole bunch of different disciplines. I feel like I've gotten to the point where I'd like to start reading something a bit more substantial, at least in terms of broadening my knowledge of other fields...

Muslim group Minhaj-ul-Quran issues fatwa against terrorists -Times Online Suicide bombers 'unIslamic' and going to Hell, says leading cleric -Times Online

Sooo....what do people think? Use spoiler tags to avoid giving the game away ;) I've only just cleared the first couple of levels. Whatever the story may turn out like, it's good to be back in Rapture....

Made by Paragon waaaay back, based on a steampunk tabletop RPG made by Game Developers' Workshop. Setting is cool, but this game is as tough as hell. Got given it as a gift about 15 years ago and I still haven't managed to get that far in it. Has anyone here possibly heard of it? I think...

Jumping on the big sciencey thread band-wagon for a moment here: Was thinking the other day we should make a thread for people to talk about the research they're currently doing (for those of us in some kind of research science), or interesting things they have worked on in this past. If there...

Saw a documentary on Project Orion a couple of nights ago and it got me thinking about different methods of rocket propulsion, specifically over distances longer than our solar system - figured I'd start another physicsy thread. Here's the two most interesting methods that I know of...