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Visualizing Comparative Scripture

Aug 3rd, 2007 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Folklore/Philosophy

I love it when some clever person finds a way to represent complex data in a unified, visual form. “Similar Diversity” is an exhibit that attempts to do that with the scriptures of the major world religions (courtesy of information aesthetics).

I just wish I could find a larger image so I could try to [...]



Making a Bad Date

Feb 20th, 2007 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Folklore/Philosophy, Reviews

On the list of things you’re not supposed to talk about on a first date, religion sits at number one … and for obvious reasons. Disagreements can get nasty and irrational, and in most cases, nobody is going to say anything original anyway–much of the talk that surrounds the topic is poorly-imitated and poorly-informed [...]