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Faye Flam - The Sacramento Bee - 22 February 2012 12 Comments
On " Star Trek, the aliens often look so human that crew members fall in love with them. But in real life, scientists in the field known as astrobiology can't be sure alien life would even be...
Plant blooms after 30,000 years in permafrost
Kate Ravilious - New Scientist - 21 February 2012 55 Comments
A plant that last flowered when woolly mammoths roamed the plains is back in bloom. Biologists have resurrected a 30,000-year-old plant, cultivating it from fruit tissue recovered from frozen...
Deborah Blum - Speak Easy Science - PLoS Blogs - 21 February 2012 9 Comments
Last week, a team of researchers from Dartmouth University released a widely publicized study with the somewhat provocative title “Arsenic, Organic Foods and Brown Rice Syrup.” The study...
The problem in public life isn’t Islam, but religion itself
Doug Saunders - The Globe and Mail - 21 February 2012 31 Comments
Thanks to Brendan Reid for the link. Note that this article is from Feb 18. There was a call in show on the BBC this morning and there are most likely comments relating to the coverage of...
Religion for Atheists: a Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion
Reviewed by John Gray - New Statesman - 21 February 2012 42 Comments
Religion for Atheists: a Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion Alain de Botton Hamish Hamilton, 320pp, £18.99 “Religion," writes Alain de Botton, "is above all a symbol of what exceeds us and...
There’s More to Nothing Than We Knew
Dennis Overbye - The New York Times - 21 February 2012 15 Comments
Joshua Lott for The New York Times MULTIVERSE PROPONENT The cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss Why is there something, rather than nothing at all? It is, perhaps, the mystery of last resort....
5 Kinds of Fungus Discovered to Be Capable of Farming Animals!
Rob Dunn - Scientific American - 21 February 2012 6 Comments
This article is the fifth ( see the first , second , third and fourth articles here) in a miniseries of six articles that will be posted over six days about...
Richard Dawkins in ‘single-celled ancestor’ shock
Michael Marshall - Newsthump - 21 February 2012 55 Comments
Many of you will have seen this by now, but it deserves to be saved for posterity! Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins has been hit by fresh scandal today after it emerged his ancestors were...
The world has forgotten the real victims of Fukushima
Michael Hanlon - The Telegraph - 21 February 2012 24 Comments
Force of nature: a boat washed up in Miyagi prefecture. Photo: AFP/GETTY I watched the terrible events which took place in Japan on March 11 last year with an appalled fascination. The first...
BBC RADIO 4 PHONE IN THIS MORNING: IS RELIGION IN THE UK BEING ERODED?
- - - - 21 February 2012 44 Comments
The topic of today's phone-in on BBC Radio 4's You & Yours programme is "Is religion in the UK being eroded?" If you'd like to listen, it will be on between 12 noon and 12.57pm, and you can...
"The nature of human beings and the question of their ultimate origin"
Richard Dawkins & The Archbishop of Canterbury - The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford - 21 February 2012 89 Comments
A discussion between Richard Dawkins and the Archbishop of Canterbury The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Thursday, 23 Feburary 2012 4.00-5.30pm Note that the event is sold out but will be...
The Church wins the award for intolerance
Matt Ridley - The Times (London) - 21 February 2012 56 Comments
Of course religion is central to our culture. It spent a thousand years stamping out rivals For people who profess to be kind and tolerant, the defenders of Christianity can be remarkably...
Dizzy with Excitement over “Moving Secularism Forward”
Paul Fidalgo - Center for Inquiry - 21 February 2012 16 Comments
I just signed on with CFI last week as their new communications guy, so I’m still settling in and getting a sense of what’s going on. So you’ll have to forgive me if some things that seem like old...
Online debate between Russell Blackford and American theologian/historian William Cavanaugh
- - Religion and Ethics - 21 February 2012 8 Comments
Throughout the seventeenth century, European civilisation was tortured by religious conflict. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and other political thinkers of the time wrote against a background of...
Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era'
Robin McKie - The Observer - 20 February 2012 27 Comments
Thanks to Derek Morr for the link. Researchers attending one of the world's major academic conferences 'are scared to death of the anti-science lobby' The vast majority of scientists on...
Physicists Create Working Transistor Consisting of a Single Atom
- - ScienceDaily - 20 February 2012 19 Comments
Thanks to Sci_Guy_Bri In a remarkable feat of micro-engineering, an international team of researchers, including physicists at the University of New South Wales in Australia, have created a...
Religious freedom and religious privilege
Russell Blackford - Talking Philosophy - 19 February 2012 17 Comments
I enjoyed reading Mike LaBossiere’s post entitled “Church & State: Immaculate Contraception” , but I can’t resist the impulse to add a post of my own – perhaps because I lack free will in the...
What is the proper place for religion in Britain's public life?
Will Hutton and Richard Dawkins - The Observer - 19 February 2012 96 Comments
Britain became engulfed in a culture war last week as secularists and believers clashed over the role of religion in public life. Even the Queen intervened to defend the Church of England's role....
The Sins of the Fathers [Also in Polish]
Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net - 18 February 2012 326 Comments
See bottom for the Polish translation Yesterday evening I was telephoned by a reporter who announced himself as Adam Lusher from the Sunday Telegraph. At the end of a week of successfully rattling...
Councils win prayer 'rights' as ministers fast track Localism Act powers
- - BBC News - 18 February 2012 84 Comments
The government is activating a power it says will allow councils in England to hold prayers at meetings. Communities secretary Eric Pickles says he is "effectively reversing" the High Court's...
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