Thought of the day

Happiness is happiness and morality is morality and sadness is sadness and joy is joy because it all must end.

Excellent thought of the day

I’m done with this semester.

Thought of the day

I see no reasoning given as to why good and evil ultimately being subjective also automatically makes them meaningless. The only argument ever put forth is that subjective morality = meaningless. That’s a bad equation.

Thought of the day

Are we really such a weak and cowardly race that we must concoct these silly rationalizations to avoid admitting the obvious: there doesn’t seem to be a God, or at least one who is loving and powerful? Can’t we admit that bad things are simply bad things and not some manifestation of a tortured and incomprehensible divine calculus? When will our species grow up?

~Jerry Coyne

Thought of the day

I literally just had a fit of laughter reading the comments on a post about Andreas Moritz.

Thought of the day

I just finished a research paper into the genetics of color blindness (something I personally have). I ran out of black ink, so I am using “dark olive” as my font color. It looks brown to me. Ironic, much?

Thought of the day

Bigotry is an ugly, ugly thing. It can be overcome many different ways, but it takes a lot of hard work to mature past it.

Same-sex marriage made easy

Larger version here.

Nat. Geo’s photography contest

National Geographic has a photography contest going (deadline passed) and a lot of the pictures are just fantastic.

Nat. Geo's photography contest

National Geographic has a photography contest going (deadline passed) and a lot of the pictures are just fantastic.