Europe retains its position as the most peaceful region with 14 of the top 20 most peaceful countries

Rule of Kirk #1: Always Enjoy Yourself

Note to self: start throwing piglets from from walls and breeding the survivors. Increase wall height every five generations until they can at least glide.

THE Doctor makes every crew better!

I tried, I really tried to mix it up, Kaylee engineer, Starbuck top flyer and such.

Who needs a bridge crew when you can have a Culture Mind running the show?

Highly recommended. I wish there were further sequels.

Two great books about this:

Healing Touch: Level 1 Paladin ability.

Working in healthcare, specifically mental health care, I have a whole list of my own: Healing Touch, Chiropracty, psych meds cause mental illness instead of treating it, marijuana is some magic plant with no side effects, etc etc.

It is fun to ask people what "toxins" are, whenever they talk about toxins.

Damn right:

At a guess, it's in large part because a Religious Education class would have to teach religions other than Christianity, in addition to multiple (sometimes contradictory) flavors of Christianity. Either alone would horrify many, if not most, of the crazy fundamentalist Christians, both together makes that pretty…

heh... yeah, I shoulda gone with 'current science'...

So what you are saying is after the 5th day when god created the fowl of the sky, and 6th day when he created the beasts of the earth, he got some shuteye on day 7 and the fowls and beasts got BIZZAY!

Ironically, flying pigs are actually more likely to happen under creationism than with science... :p

I'm saying this as a Christian: This really needs to happen. Ignoring science because of what could easily be interpreted as just storytelling and parable is -ignorant.-

I don't know why the Christian/Science (read: not Christian Science) stance is so hard for most Christians. You want to believe in a divine…

And now for this victory in science education here's Daft Punk clapping: