Science

October 2014

October 24, 2014
David Shiffman, a University of Miami Ph.D. Student, has an article up on Slate about...
October 23, 2014
Depressing. From Maria Konnikova at the New Yorker: [In April,] Brendan Nyhan, a professor of...
October 18, 2014
Several months ago, I posted about Makayla Sault (below), an 11-year-old with acute lymphoblastic leukemia....
October 17, 2014
Humorist Andy Borowitz cracks wise about the current health crisis: There is a deep-seated fear...
October 14, 2014
Stronzo Bestiale is a researcher at the Institute for Experimental Physics in Vienna who is a co-author on a small...
October 14, 2014
Bill Nye smiled and waved to the row of people seated along the outside of...
October 11, 2014
The team at Stated Clearly have an excellent new video explaining the evidence for evolution...
October 08, 2014
Holy Moses, the afterlife is real! Or such is the impression that you might get,...
October 07, 2014
Physicist Stephen Hawking recently came out (explicitly) as an atheist, leading Ray Comfort, on his...
October 07, 2014
I'll just put this here so you can all drool over it:
October 06, 2014
In a case that's lasted more than six years, there's finally a happy resolution in...
October 04, 2014
Several months ago, I posted about Makayla Sault (below), an 11-year-old with acute lymphoblastic leukemia....
October 04, 2014
I sometimes browse the Answers in Genesis Facebook page. Aside from providing comic relief to...
October 03, 2014
Richard Dawkins wrote this memorable passage in Unweaving the Rainbow: We are going to die,...
October 03, 2014
I want Jerry Coyne's new book: Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible....
October 02, 2014
According to Vanderbilt Professor of Astronomy David Weintraub, a majority of atheists believe in extraterrestrial...
October 02, 2014
How do random mutations in our genes really create the kind of diversity of life...
October 02, 2014
Last year, 9-year-old Xavier Hanson wondered if there was a non-religious holiday where people gave...

September 2014

September 30, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about some questionable statements Neil deGrasse Tyson makes...
September 28, 2014
Professor David P. Barash writes in today's New York Times about "The Talk" he gives...
September 27, 2014
Before Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke at Apostacon last weekend, spoken word artist Victor Harris gave...
September 27, 2014
About a week ago, I posted about some questionable statements Neil deGrasse Tyson makes in...
September 26, 2014
Jonny Scaramanga, who's written at this site about his fundamentalist education at an Accelerated Christian...
September 25, 2014
Our latest podcast guests are Skeptics Guide to the Universe host and neuroscientist Steven Novella...
September 24, 2014
Blake Griffin grew up in Oklahoma so it's hardly surprising that the NBA star and...
September 24, 2014
Physicist Stephen Hawking has always had a somewhat squishy view of God. The author of...
September 19, 2014
At yesterday's annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard, where hilarious-but-very-real research is celebrated, a...
September 18, 2014
Ken Ham still thinks we're all talking about his debate with Bill Nye. Seriously. He...
September 18, 2014
The conversation about how human beings derive meaning from life, and how it ties into...
September 17, 2014
Last year, the Indian state of Uttarakhand was hit was a multi-day downpour. Thousands of...
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