The new Carnival of the Godless is at Klaas Acts. Go check it out! The next CotG is at The Atheist Experience in two weeks. Submit your entries here! [tags]atheist, atheism, Carnival of the Godless, Klaas Acts, The Atheist Experience[/tags] Read more
I’m not an anime fan, but one film called Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, came to my attention: [Director Mamoru] Oshii also explores what Richard Dawkins calls the extended phenotype, structures that are genetically encoded, but external to the body. The beaver’s dam and the spider’s web are natural illustrations of this, and, in the film, memory itself has become externalised in this manner. And judging by the picture, The Selfish Gene also comes into play. I need to… Read more
The first ever Humanist Symposium can be found this week at Daylight Atheism. Go read it! The next HS is at Confessions of an Anonymous Coward in three weeks. Submit your entries here! [tags]atheist, atheism, Humanist Symposium, Daylight Atheism, Confessions of an Anonymous Coward[/tags] Read more
Mojoey (of the fantastic Atheist Blogroll) has a great review of I Sold My Soul on eBay up at his site. Forget the review itself for a moment. Mojoey tells of the perils he endured while simply in possession of the book at an airport: [Hemant’s note: A few corrections have been made by me] I was singled out to go through the sniffer, which was followed by a manual check of my bags. The lady who checked my bags… Read more
If anyone is in Chicago tomorrow and would like to hear Indian people talk about writing, stop by the Kriti Festival tomorrow morning at the University of Illinois at Chicago! Tickets for the entire day are $20 for adults and $10 for students. The Kriti Festival is sponsored by DesiLit, which “works to build support for South Asian and diaspora writers.” I’ll be on a non-fiction writers panel at 10:00 am (local time) which will be followed by a book… Read more
They know I’m part of the “evil atheist conspiracy.” And I was so trying to keep my atheist agenda hidden. Alas. I guess I must tell the truth now… Everyone, I’m an atheist. And I would like others to understand what that entails. *phew* I actually feel much better now. Here’s what Tristan writes: PERSECUTOR We at STR.com have been the victims of persecution. This man who calls himself “The Friendly Atheist” has written shocking things about our own dear… Read more
Ms. SuperScience at Beautiful Biology shares some great lines (including one of her own) from her Biology classroom during presentations the students gave on human anatomy. A couple examples: “When the kidney produces urine, the urine then exits the body through the uterus.” and “These are the Fallopian tubes in the picture – see? Here? These moose-looking things.” I’m not going to have nearly this much fun in a math classroom next year… maybe I’ll have the students give presentations… Read more
It was bound to happen eventually. Someone is selling I Sold My Soul on eBay on eBay. And with that, my life has come full circle. One full, wacky, twisted circle. Though for $6 shipping, you’re much better off getting the book on Amazon… Should I be offended that the book is being sold in “new mint unread condition”? As it turns out, there are no reviews for the book on the site… so I submitted one myself: This is… Read more
Jimmy Li in the Harvard Crimson newspaper has an article in today’s paper about coming out as atheists. He uses the “Pissed Catholic Mother” video as a starting point: “Pissed Catholic Mother” is shocking and disturbing to say the least, and it’s probably safe to assume that most parents would not respond with such hurtful and abusive language if their child were to tell them he or she is an atheist. Perhaps what is more unsettling, however, is that the… Read more
There are dozens of national/international organizations out there for non-religious people. For a newcomer to the scene, it’s often hard to keep track of which groups there are and how they are connected to each other. August Brunsman, Executive Director of the Secular Student Alliance, made a chart (a first draft, anyway) to help you out. Click on the image below to see it in full size: And now it all makes sense, right? This chart will go through a… Read more
