RCimT: Friday fun

Tonight I have a TON of crap in my tabs. Enjoy!

A report on science knowledge coupled with a ten-question survey suggests the public likes scientists, and scientists blame the public for lack of scientific knowledge. I think that’s only part of it — and a larger part is the media’s fault. It seems to me that scientific endeavours in the news get either insufficient coverage, ridiculously inaccurate coverage, or no coverage at all.

The Star Trek reboot apparently had a four-part comic series prequel that plugs up a few seeming loose holes — including what red matter is (sorta), and how exactly a single supernova was going to threaten the entire galaxy. Plus, we find out Spock’s ship was designed by Geordi LaForge and is called the Jellyfish. How cool is that?

There’s an infographic making its way around the blogosphere at the moment, showing the difference in religious affiliation between 1990 and 2008. Unsurprisingly, “no religion” in both percentage and in population-in-millions are really starting to take off.

Check out some Victorian vests on which we’re patterning my wedding outfit. I’ll award a prize of one internet to anyone who can figure out what combination I think I’d like to have made.

It turns out Saturn’s got another ring we had no idea about — a massive one, one that Iapetus is plowing through, causing that big brown stain on its “windshield” side.

CyberLizard covers Jonathan Escobar, a cross-dresser in Cobb County, Georgia, and his fight to look fabulous in school. Fight the good fight, Jonathan!

Here’s a reminder for those of you that have apparently since forgotten: Roman Polanski raped a child, and pled guilty when tried for it. The fact that he’s since made movies that you like, or that the victim has since said she doesn’t want this circus to continue, is wholly irrelevent to the facts that he raped a child, and that he fled before sentencing could be carried out.

There’s apparently a tribe of women in the Ukraine that are upset with the abuse women have been getting there, and have stolen away to the mountains to become ninjas. No, seriously. This would be hot if it weren’t so frightening.

Ever wonder why creationists call anyone who is either atheist, or understands that science says evolution is true, or both, are “Darwinists”? Here’s why. Because it makes science-backers and atheists seem like they have a dogma and prophets of their own. Even though that’s patently false. And evolution itself is not that hard to grasp, so creationists need to frame it as a dogmatic doctrine otherwise they’re not on even footing with us.

Nicole Eggbert of Baywatch has apparently put on a few pounds since the show’s end, and critics have been assholes about it lately. So she hit back. Good for her. I’d let her save me any day of the week.

And that’s not even all my tabs! Another post tomorrow, I guess — and it’ll be a good thing, too, as I won’t have much time to blog. It’s our Turkey Day tomorrow. Actually, Monday, but we’re doing it early.