Daily Blend: Saturday, July 23, 2011

Lareko Williams

My deepest sympathies to all those directly and indirectly affected by the ongoing nightmare in Oslo, Norway.

• Charlotte, NC police suspends all use of tasers pending a safety review after second death [pictured]. Wish more departments did this.
  (via The Agitator)

• Victory! Notoriously anti-science Texas State Board of Education unanimously votes (8-0) in favor of scientifically accurate textbooks over Creationist-backed bullshit. Sounds almost too good to be true.
  (via Right Wing Watch)

• MIT researchers teach computer to play (and win at) Civilization by reading manual, prove most humans really are stupider than a machine.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Russia launches biggest radio telescope ever: 30× bigger than the Earth, image resolution 10,000× higher than Hubble’s.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Template for nearly every atheist/theist debate in history.
  (via Friendly Atheist)

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Tags: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department • Charlotte, NC • Tasers • Lareko Williams • Darryl Turner • Texas • Texas State Board of Education • MIT • Civilization • Spektr-R observatory • RadioAstron • Blonde Nonbeliever • atheists • theists