Hemant Mehta is the founder and editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, and podcast co-host. He is a former National Board Certified math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago. He has appeared on CNN and FOX News and served on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief and the Secular Student Alliance. He has written multiple books, including I Sold My Soul on eBay and The Young Atheist's Survival Guide. He also edited the book Queer Disbelief.
This is a guest post by Katie Hartman. She is a student at Missouri State University and the organizer of Skepticon 4. Quiz time! When was the last time your belief structure on a topic important to you shifted significantly? Yes, I can see all you ex-theists out there. Put your hands down! That one doesn’t count. I mean, isn’t it a little too easy? Yes, there’s probably no god. You’d think anyone who didn’t sleep through their science classes could… Read more
This is a guest post by Laura Shiley. She is a junior at the University of Colorado – Boulder and a member of the Secular Students and Skeptics Society (SSaSS). Putting down the megaphone and putting on a thinking cap If you shout for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough energy to warm a cup of coffee. Yelling is inefficient. Save some time and just use a microwave. Have you ever noticed how debates tend to… Read more
This is a guest post by Carly Jane Casper. She is a junior at Indiana University and a member of Secular Alliance at Indiana University (SAIU). As a child, let people push you around for being more interested in stars and plants than boys and Beanie Babies. Try to explain yourself when your classmates throw basketballs at you in gym class, try to tell them that you just want to be friends. Cry when they call you a freak, but… Read more
This is a guest post by “Bob,” Executive Director of the Skagit Secular Student Alliance. This past weekend I was lucky enough to attend the 2011 Secular Student Alliance Annual Conference. Among the speakers was American Atheist president David Silverman, and it was a speech I enjoyed. His talk focused on inspiring us secular youth; emphasizing how we are the future, and how the future looks good. I couldn’t agree more, and found the talk pretty inspirational in this sense. His talk… Read more
This is a guest post by Cory Derringer. He is a senior at the University of Northern Iowa and a member of the UNI Freethinkers and Inquirers (UNIFI). I ran across this article at reddit.com/r/psychology. I thought it would be cool to share something really awesome involving computer science and neuroscience. Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have used electrode implants in epilepsy patients to give those individuals conscious control over the firing of some single neurons. The… Read more
