TLD continues his cosmological journey. Filed under: Science Tagged: Beyond Imagination, The Living Dinosaur
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Dead Wild Roses: The Living Dinosaur – Beyond Imagination Part 1: The Universe
Gentle readers, it is going to be a busy couple of weeks, therefore blogging has taken a back burner temporarily. Please enjoy these brilliant videos from the Living Dinosaur about Science and our Universe. If I have time, I will add more posts to fill the gaps in my usual
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice Featuring Theramin Trees – Death Part 2
The lengths we go through to gain the illusion of control… Enjoy this thoughtful exploration of death and atheism. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Death, How Religion Poisons Everything, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, theramin trees
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Theramin Trees – Death
What happens when we realize that religion is just a cultural vehicle to salve our irrational fear of death? Theramin Trees produces another outstanding video that engages the intellect with explanations of why we act the way we do when faced with the facts of our mortality. Seventeen minutes long,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlulde – Beethoven’s Sonatina in G Major.
I’m currently learning this piece and hope to have it worked up to performance state by the end of June. Some of the tricky bits include keeping your fingers in the right position while going on the upward scale melodies and of course, counting out in your head that initial
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Yes Your Religion Sounds This Stupid – AronRa at the Global Atheist Convention
Videos like these get my heart beating faster. The sheer amount of ignorance displayed by the faithfully deluded is recorded for the world to watch and collectively groan as they*facepalm* to shield themselves from the pants-on-fire grade of stupid emanating from the mouths of creationists. We have rationalists now (thank
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Creationism – Wholesale stupid on Parade.
Religious ‘arguments’ – Check. Intellectually bankrupt – Check. Thunderf00t laying the smack down on delusional christians – Check. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: christian truth, How Not to Argue, Presuppositional Nonsense, Thunderf00t
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Spying on Penguins via Satallite
I’m sure they don’t mind, they just need to bloop around being all penguin-y while our scientists study their habits and habitat. By counting penguins in images taken from space, scientists estimate the population of emperor penguins was around 595,000 in 2009 — roughly double previous estimates of between 270,000
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Just a reminder – Alberta, Go Vote.
Exercise the bare minimum of what is required for us to have a democracy, if you’re an Albertan make your way down to the polls and participate in the political process. Filed under: Canada, Politics Tagged: Alberta Election, Democracy in Action, Voting
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ah Snow, how We miss you…
Not at all actually. Good Riddance evil snow! Luckily, due to a variety of meteorological factors, Alberta experienced a very mild winter, we’ve been very lucky this year, meaning that I’ve been wearing these: Instead of these for much of the winter/spring season. – Here in western Canada, we really
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Alberta Provincial Election – The Wildrose Faileth, so Say Mr.Lake of Fire and Mr.White Powah!
Only in Alberta does the the electorate consider ending the 40 year term of the staunchly right wing Progressive Conservatives with a party that is, you guessed it gentle reader, further to the right. The false populist veneer of the Alberta Wild Rose Party makes it appear palatable to the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Debussy – Nuit d’étoiles
Just finishing up working on a selection from Purcell, this could be my next vocal project. Having been doing a lot of singing in Italian as of late I’ve noticed by french pronunciation has gone to merde. :> Date: 1880 Composer: Claude Debussy Period: Post-Romantic (1870-1909) Review This is Debussy’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Week – Jarod from Practical Doubt on Christianity.
This is the conclusion to a great article found on Practical Doubt. “Hidden beneath the inclusive guise of Christianity exists the absurd notion that people are capable of understanding the depth of humanity through the eyes of faith. They engage this masturbatory exercise without the slightest comprehension of words
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Conservative Definition of Racism – aka How not to deal with the Problem
To comprehend any issue it is important to have a understanding of key terms base principles at work. Two very different narratives of how racism works are identified by John Stoehr in this excerpt from his article on Al-Jazeera. “[…] Everyone agreed the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Florida
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Early Music Alberta – Flash Mob – Canon in D by Pachelbel
Its hard to flash mob a harpsichord unobtrusively into a mall, full marks for EMA for “stealthing” one in. Filed under: Arts, Music Tagged: Alberta Early Music Society, Baroque Instruments, Canon in D, Flash Mob, Music
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Jailbreak – Bannu Pakistan Edition
Al Jazeera: “Hundreds of prisoners are believed to have escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan after it was attacked by anti-government fighters armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Some of those who escaped from the facility in the town of Bannu, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, early on Sunday morning were “militants”,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: AronRa – Reason Rally – The Foolishness of Faith
This video, like the Thunderf00t reason rally video, is about taking the superstition and religious non-sense head on. There is no moderator, no stage just the free exchange of ideas and arguments in a public forum. AronRa does a marvellous job of handling all the ‘gotcha’ questions the deluded
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Repent and Reload!
Nothing like a fair heaping of ridicule for the GOP to start the day off right. Filed under: Humour, Politics Tagged: GOP PAC Annoucement, Humour, Repent & Reload
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bach – Passacagilia and Fugue in C Minor
Same ground base, 20 variations, 1 bar ending. The brilliance of Bach on display. BWV 582/1: Passacaglia The passacaglia is in 3/4 time typical of the form. Bach’s ostinato comprises eight bars, which is unusual but not unheard of: an ostinato of the same length is used, for example, in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dismembering the CBC – The Conservative Hatchet Job on Canadian Culture.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation provides a great window into Canadian culture (as it is) and gives Canadians a platform to interact with each other to express and share their views. The CBC also provides news and commentary that is not vetted by commercial interests before going to air as
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