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Stuff! 06/06/10

Another week and more random stuff from the internet.

WolframAlpha
An awesome and forward-thinking search tool developed by eccentric math genius Stephen Wolfram. Definitely one to bookmark. It’s my new toy!

Papercuts
Check out these fantastic and whimsical A4 paper sculptures by Peter Callesen. Truly amazing art.

Guatemala Sinkhole
The startling and frightening pit in photos. National Geographic compares it to other famous sinkholes from across the globe.

Porn Stats
The average age a child first sees porn online is 11. Chilling.

No Dogma, No Fruits!
“It can be difficult to convince another Christian that the doctrines of grace are biblical. I know because I’ve tried (sometimes winsomely, sometimes not). Convincing an egalitarian of complementarian is a challenge too. Ditto for any other disputed doctrine. But in my experience what’s even more difficult is convincing the average Christian that doctrine matters at all.”

Was life really created in a test tube? And does it disprove biblical creation?
“Headlines are buzzing with the news of Dr Craig Venter’s sensational “creation of a synthetic life form”… So what was actually achieved, and what does it mean?”

Believe It or Not
“I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a passing fad—not the cultural watershed its purveyors imagine it to be, but simply one of those occasional and inexplicable marketing vogues that inevitably go the way of pet rocks, disco, prime-time soaps, and The Bridges of Madison County.”

Franz Reichelt
This one came out of nowhere but hey, Stuff! is random right? Anyway, it’s the interesting and tragic tale of Franz Reichelt, an “Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for his accidental death by jumping from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design.”

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