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What-If and What-Is: The Role of Speculation in Science
James Gorman - New York Times - 25 May 2012 3 Comments
Woody Allen once said that when you do comedy, you sit at the children’s table. The same might be said of speculation in science. And yet speculation is an essential part of science. So how...
Science, Religion and Society: The Problem of Evolution in America
Jerry Coyne - Evolution - 25 May 2012 0 Comments
Abstract: American resistance to accepting evolution is uniquely high among First World countries. This is due largely to the extreme religiosity of the United States, which is much higher than...
Hemant Mehta - Washington Post - 25 May 2012 12 Comments
Last year, Christian apologist Josh McDowell made a remarkable claim about the Internet, stating that “the abundance of knowledge, the abundance of information, will not lead to certainty; it will...
CFI student leaders need your help!
- - Center for Inquiry - 25 May 2012 0 Comments
Dear Friend, We at the Center for Inquiry believe it’s important for young activists to learn from experienced leaders who have been involved in grassroots outreach and organizing for...
- - YouTube - MrDeity - 25 May 2012 15 Comments
Mr. Deity shares his plan for human rights
The living fossils of brain evolution
- - PhysOrg.com - 25 May 2012 4 Comments
(Phys.org) -- In the course of its evolution, the architecture of the mouse brain may have barely changed. Similar to the tiny ancestors of modern mammals that lived about 80 million years ago,...
Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’
Benedict Carey - New York Times - 24 May 2012 57 Comments
The simple fact was that he had done something wrong, and at the end of a long and revolutionary career it didn’t matter how often he’d been right, how powerful he once was, or what it would mean...
Human Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be
Matt Ridley - Wall Street Journal Online - 24 May 2012 12 Comments
If you write about genetics and evolution, one of the commonest questions you are likely to be asked at public events is whether human evolution has stopped. It is a surprisingly hard question to...
Richard Dawkins - Prospect - 24 May 2012 47 Comments
Richard Dawkins's review of The Social Conquest of Earth , by Edward O Wilson (WW Norton, £18.99, May) JBS Haldane quipped that any Creator must have had “an inordinate fondness for...
The beauty of creation: an interview with Richard Dawkins
Heather Catchpole - COSMOS Magazine - 24 May 2012 13 Comments
Thanks to Quine for the link. Heather Catchpole: We very much enjoyed both of your performances in the last couple of days… Richard Dawkins: Good. HC: I wanted to start with The...
A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?
Tom Bartlett - Religion Dispatches - 24 May 2012 34 Comments
For a while, their message was everywhere. They paid for billboards, took out full-page ads in newspapers, distributed thousands of tracts. They drove across the county in RVs emblazoned with verses...
Full Length Talk - 'How To Tell You're An Atheist'
Dan Dennett - YouTube - TheClergyProject - 24 May 2012 20 Comments
Philosopher Daniel Dennett was one of the stars of the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne and gave a brilliant and whimsical talk on defining the atheist. He is the uber-philospher of the...
Ancient walking mystery deepens
Helen Briggs - BBC News - Science & Environment - 23 May 2012 7 Comments
Reconstruction of the body of Ichthyostega One of the first creatures to step on land could not have walked on four legs, 3D computer models show. Textbook pictures of the...
Seth Andrews - YouTube - TheThinkingAtheist - 23 May 2012 25 Comments
An homage to Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot," this video explores humankind's place in the cosmos. Originally uploaded in December 2010, this update features a few minor revisions and a new...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally to Discuss Risks of Internet
Michael M. Grynbaum - The New York Times - 22 May 2012 67 Comments
Thanks to neovision for the link. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox men were at a rally in Citi Field on Sunday on the dangers of the Internet. Women watched the event at viewing parties elsewhere....
Dolan: White House is “strangling” Catholic church
- - Preserve Religious Freedom - Archdiocese of Washington - 22 May 2012 52 Comments
The spat between Catholic leaders and the Obama administration over its contraception policies is heating up again, with one of the nation’s most prominent Catholic leaders charging that the...
Rare neurons found in monkeys’ brains
Laura Sanders - Science News - 22 May 2012 4 Comments
A mysterious kind of nerve cell that has been linked to empathy, self-awareness, and even consciousness resides in Old World monkeys. The finding, published May 10 in Neuron, extends the domain of...
Moral Clarity and Richard Dawkins
Carson - Reasons for God - 22 May 2012 92 Comments
Moral confusion is a common problem. When a conversation begins about the difference between right and wrong, everyone can feel the tension, because admitting you’re wrong isn’t just about saying...
Brian Greene - The Daily Beast - 22 May 2012 46 Comments
“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in creating the world.” That’s how Albert Einstein, in his characteristically poetic way, asked whether our universe is the only possible...
Take a stand for public access to taxpayer funded research
Bonnie Swoger - Scientific American - 22 May 2012 5 Comments
Sign Petition In my first post here at Information Culture , I made the argument that in order for science to progress, the results of scientific studies must be shared with others. One of...
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