Oct 08 2012
Look at this long line of people in Australia. They’re queued up to gaze in wonder at the 500-year-old mummified right forearm of some Catholic saint. I’ve got a few things I’d want to ask them. “What the hell is wrong with you people?” “Do you really think fragments of corpses have magic powers?” “Are …
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Oct 06 2012
Behold, the awesome Amblypygids! It’s a whole gallery of lovely photos of these harmless little arthropods that will have you cooing over their cuteness.
Oct 06 2012
In case you haven’t heard of him (good for you!), he was an academic who promoted racism. In 2002, Rushton became president of the Pioneer Fund, which has for decades funded dubious studies linking race to characteristics like criminality, sexuality and intelligence. Pioneer has long promoted eugenics, or the “science” of creating “better” humans through …
Oct 04 2012
Check out the website! Sign the petitions! Read Maggie Koerth-Baker’s summary! Exploration Day is the cool idea to rename Columbus Day, to strip out the ugly historical implications — we celebrate the genocide of the first inhabitants of the American continents? — and build up new and positive associations. I’m all for it. Now we …
Aug 24 2012
It’s going to get interesting this weekend: we will have Brownian, Louis, Jen McCreight, and Rebecca Watson on a Google+ hangout on Sunday, 5pm Central time, to talk about the limitations of the current skepticism and atheism movements, and how Third Wave Atheism/Atheism+/Sniny New Atheism should and can extend our reach. A lot of people …
Aug 19 2012
Gay marriage is a useful marker. It’s an issue that’s rather orthogonal to atheism, but we can still use it as a parameter to help us identify our allies (it is not, of course, a perfect or even entirely sufficient marker, but it’s still kind of cool to see how it splits the country into …
Aug 17 2012
Ginger, 42, and a resident of Northwest Louisiana has just delivered a healthy baby girl. I’m impressed with Ginger, who has done all the hard work of pregnancy multiple times and still seems to strongly bond with her babies. It was the fifth baby for Ginger, who lives in the same social group as Tracy …
Aug 06 2012
It’s been a long day, and a rough long evening of travel. I got into Minneapolis at midnight, and I’m so tired I’ve just checked into a cheap motel to get some sleep. So why am I lying here clinging to my iPad watching NASA TV? I’m probably going to pass out soon with my …
Jul 14 2012
Alexander Aan has been thrown into prison for blasphemy, but he still has some contact with the world. He has sent a message out: You can write back. The Atheist Alliance will forward email to him, and a little correspondence might let him know the world is watching. Also, someone imprisoned for blasphemy is probably …
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