Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-13-2009

[andrewducker]

• Scientists find pleasure nerves
  A team, including scientists from the Unilever company, have identified a class of nerve fibres in the skin which specifically send pleasure messages.
  
  And people had to be stroked at a certain speed - 4-5cm per second - to activate the pleasure sensation.
  (tags: pleasure biology)
• BBC NEWS | UK | Most Britons 'believe in heaven'
  The survey of 2,060 people showed 55% believe in heaven, while 53% believe in life after death and 70% believe in the human soul.
  
  It also suggested that nearly four in 10 people, 39%, believe in ghosts and 27% believe in reincarnation.
  
  A further 22% believe in astrology or horoscopes and 15% believe in fortune telling or Tarot.
  
  The think tank said the findings were "especially striking" when compared to the 1950s.
  
  Then only 10% of the public told Gallup that they believed in ghosts and just 2% thought they had seen one.
  
  In 1951, only 7% of people said they believed in predicting the future by cards and 6% by stars.
  (tags: religion education superstition)
• Stem cell treatment may allow women to delay menopause
  With obligatory bloody stupid comment immediately afterwards.
  (tags: fertility science biology)
• Attenborough warns on population
  Wants no more than two children per family. Doesn't seem to realise that the UK is already below 1.75
  (tags: ecology society population)
• You are being lied to about pirates
  I have no idea where the truth lies here.
  (tags: pirates politics history propaganda piracy africa pollution somalia)
• Garfield Minus Garfield
  Released in book form! Astounding!
  (tags: garfield funny art)
• Rockstar Games Presents L.A. Noire
  Like Rockstar Games? Like LA Confidential? You have permission to become unreasonably aroused...
  (tags: game rockstar LA)
• Amazon Censors Its Rankings & Search Results to Protect Us Against GLBT Books
  Let's see how well this one goes down...
  (tags: bigotry amazon)
• Ex KKK member apologises - but isn't sure why.
  The apologies have won headlines and praise. Letters have poured in, lauding Wilson's courage. Strangers, black and white, have hailed him as a hero.
  
  But Wilson doesn't feel like a hero. He feels confused. He cannot fully answer the lingering questions, the doubts. Where did all the hate come from? And where did it go?
  (tags: history race religion usa)

Comments

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

I believe we have discussed either the survey or the thinktank that produced it before. They also claimed people didn't believe in atheistic evolution. Whatever the buggering fuck that is.

[andrewducker]

It's atheists being more evolved, obviously :->

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that. Dear old Theos.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

So at least 2% of people in Britain believe in Heaven on Earth? Intriguing...

[andrewducker]

Why do you say that?

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Apparently 55% of people believe in Heaven, but only 53% of people believe in life after death.

[anef.livejournal.com]

Re Attenborough, he isn't being contradictory. The 1.75 includes families with more than two children, otherwise the average would be lower.

[andrewducker]

Good point!

I look forward to the return of Jesus any minute now!