Fri. Feb10, 1pm EST (GMT-5) - Rebroadcast of Lawrence Krauss/Richard Dawkins ASU event - Lawrence Krauss will answer questions live after the broacast

Muslim clerics in Canada have issued a fatwa against so-called “honor killings” a week after three members of an Afghan family in Montreal were convicted of the murders of four relatives.

Tensions between religion and science will persist unless believers recognise that skepticism is a hallmark of science.

Outward displays of belief in God have become a proxy for trustworthiness in the US. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

Calls to Behead Indonesian Atheist Alexander Aan

These bodies of water have been sealed off from the atmosphere for millions of years and so may contain life forms new to science.

[That documentary] allows us to think out of the comfortable narrative that has been concocted for us by the state and its right-wing allies. Watching it allows us to digest opinions wildly diverse from ours and still give them their due consideration and appreciation. This is what made me happy.

"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool <a href="People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data

The creature - called a supergiant - is a type of amphipod, which are normally around 2-3cm long.

But these beasts, discovered in the Kermadec Trench, were more than 10 times bigger: the largest found measured in at 34cm.

The Hubble space telescope has captured an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way.

“It’s Part of their Culture” - Reading Nick Cohen in the light of the Jaipur affair

This article was published in New Statesman, 23rd Jan 2012, under a different title. [Also in Polish]

Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition: Richard Dawkins's Answer to the Annual Edge Question

Free schools that teach 'intelligent design'
as science will lose funding

“It’s Part of their Culture” - Reading Nick Cohen in the light of the Jaipur affair

I suspect that there is life elsewhere in the universe, but it is probably extremely rare and isolated on far-flung islands of life, like a celestial Polynesia.

The new 'evidence' amounts to yet another 'Argument from Personal Incredulity': the Italian scientists cannot understand how it could have been faked.