1. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway

Comment #121710 by Silviu Gherman on February 4, 2008 at 2:51 am

If an average brain weights about 1400 grams and this value (as reported in the article) is one eighth of its "original" size, then the superbrain of our ancestors would have had a mass of 11,200 grams. 11 kilos of brain, now that's a tough one to bear...

2. A Table for One

Comment #71165 by Silviu Gherman on September 18, 2007 at 1:18 am

This video illustrates best the arguments against atheists. The fact the Mother Theresa is dead and some guy makes jokes on her is... how can I say... relatively not nice. The woman lived a life of spiritual misery and pain. Agreed, she loved poverty itself and was a violent anti-abortionist and she shouldn't be raised and praised for her lack of belief; but still, the fact that she is dead must be treated with a minimum of concern and empathy. Christopher Hitchens talked about her in a book that appeared in her lifetime. That was OK. So please, treat every departed human being with some sort of empathy. She wasn't such an evil witch, after all. Just a sincerely deluded one.

3. India to charge writer Nasreen with 'hurting Muslim feelings'

Comment #67663 by Silviu Gherman on September 4, 2007 at 8:33 am

Pointing out Muslims who disregard human rights and criticism has become a routine, yet nothing substantial happens. I guess that if the situation remains the same (say within 20 or 30 years) we'll have a dull future.