Friday, August 23, 2013

Are Atheists Smarter Than Religious People? - BBC


August 18, 2013 on BBC One

Friday, August 16, 2013

Teenage Exorcists | VICE


From VICE
Sick of taking responsibility for the shitty things that have happened to you in your life? Help is on the way, in the virginal and strangely vacant form of three Bible-thumping teenage exorcists from Phoenix, Arizona. Eighteen-year-old Brynne Larson and her friends Tess and Savannah Sherkenback (18 and 21, respectively) claim to be able to confront the demons lurking inside traumatized people and draw them out using nothing more than a crucifix and a few choice words. But are these teenage exorcists really empowered by the Almighty, or merely by Brynne's father, a failed televangelist named Reverend Bob?

In our new film, the girls and Reverend Bob give us exclusive access to their tour of Ukraine, during which they attempt to save the souls of recovering drug addicts and exorcise people's "sexually transmitted demons."

Monday, August 12, 2013

Lawrence Krauss: The Flavors of Nothing


Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the different types of nothing. Or something.