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.
Reader Brian explains: Folding@Home is basically a distributed computing project designed to cure diseases like cancer and Alzheimers. It works by borrowing spare CPU cycles from people who install the program on their computer. If you’d like to help out, just download the software and type in #182116 in the “team” box during setup (so that your points get counted toward the Atheists, Skeptics, & Humanists team). They’re currently ranked 88 — can we make it any better? Read more
Last week, the beautiful animated movie Sita Sings the Blues was going to be screened at Starlight Pavilion in Queens, New York. If you haven’t seen it, set aside some time and watch it: Roger Ebert, who words contain more truth than you’ll ever find in a Holy Book, loved the film. Anyway, I say it “was going to be screened” because that never actually happened thanks to a group of Hindus who say the film is offensive: Rohan Narine,… Read more
Reader Kim sent this email: I work as an adult case manager and while I was out accompanying two separate clients to office visits (one doctor and one dental) I came across these. It is completely unprofessional for them to have ANY kind of religious material in the waiting area and if I wasn’t there in a professional capacity I would have stated so. For the sake of my job and making nice, I said nothing but quickly snapped these… Read more
***Update***: On Monday, July 25th, American Atheists and select individuals filed a complaint (PDF) against people involved with the WTC memorial. The lawsuit has begun… … Days after 9/11, in the middle of all the rubble, there were steel beams from the World Trade Center everywhere. Some of that debris looked like a Christian Cross and, at a time when people were looking for any sign of hope, that did it. The person who found the giant cross put it… Read more
