1. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #185340 by RichardPrins on May 27, 2008 at 2:25 pm

395 people in the team

12 million credits

548 computers

Ranked 287 out of 74,356 teams worldwide!

2. Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine

Comment #181004 by RichardPrins on May 16, 2008 at 9:11 am

The forum on the fold.it site has some interesting discussions on how the results of the game can be used. For instance it might improve the algorithms used by the related Rosetta@home program (used with BOINC) that crunches proteins.

You will always find tips on how to achieve better scores, with some background on why this is the case (related to the protein's energies and components, etc.). All in all, an interesting game with some educational value as well.

3. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #177502 by RichardPrins on May 9, 2008 at 7:47 am

4. My Response to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #177229 by RichardPrins on May 8, 2008 at 7:36 pm

5. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #166575 by RichardPrins on April 23, 2008 at 10:04 am

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-04-23.html

eSkeptic: Expelled Exposed, Parts 2, 3, and 4.

As well as a link to this letter by RD!

6. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #165023 by RichardPrins on April 20, 2008 at 11:53 pm

In case you missed Shermer's newsletter:
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-04-17.html

Also check out Scientific American's Six Things in Expelled Ben Stein Doesn't Want You To Know (and related articles there):
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=six-things-ben-stein-doesnt-want-you-to-know

7. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #154482 by RichardPrins on April 3, 2008 at 10:45 am

315 people in the team (and 220 actively) crunching away numbers using
428 computers
398th out of 72790 teams worldwide

8. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #151635 by RichardPrins on March 29, 2008 at 5:20 am

Currently we've got 313 members and 424 hosts (computers) and are now ranked 416th out of 72,599 teams worldwide.

9. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #148346 by RichardPrins on March 22, 2008 at 5:23 pm

301 members crunching for science!

Now 431st out of 72,281 worldwide.

10. No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film

Comment #148130 by RichardPrins on March 22, 2008 at 6:53 am

http://www.expelledexposed.com/

11. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #146326 by RichardPrins on March 19, 2008 at 12:47 am

289 cats herded and still climbing!

Now 444th out of 72,160 teams worldwide.

If you're a digg user, hit the button above as well!

12. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #143857 by RichardPrins on March 14, 2008 at 2:11 pm

A considerably better momentum since this article was posted!



Thanks to everyone who decided to join and are still joining daily!

13. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #142148 by RichardPrins on March 12, 2008 at 4:28 am

Up to 252 cats in the herd volunteering some processing! ;-)

Up to #471 in the world ranks of teams (out of 71,983) participating!

14. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #140991 by RichardPrins on March 9, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Also more info and chatter in the following two forum threads:

http://www.richarddawkins.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34578
http://www.richarddawkins.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1881

I'd also recommend using BOINCStats as your account manager. It gives you nice charts and makes joining and managing multiple projects easier.

15. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #140745 by RichardPrins on March 8, 2008 at 1:50 pm

The World Community Grid runs a number of disease related projects under BOINC as well. In addition there are a number of protein folding projects.

You can subscribe (attach) to a number of projects at the same time, and the BOINC client will switch between those projects (as specified in Preferences). So if you want, you can have it work for an hour (or two) on one project and then have it switch to another project, etc.

And thanks to all those that signed up! We've moved from ~150 to ~200 members in the team in just one day!

16. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #139780 by RichardPrins on March 6, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Can anyone share their experience with using BOINC? Is it a huge hog of memory or have you noticed any problems with your computer since you've installed it?

17. Contribute to science directly by volunteering some of your computer's processing power!

Comment #139707 by RichardPrins on March 6, 2008 at 12:16 pm

Geoff, not sure which client you are using to run SETI@home, but the BOINC client can run SETI@home as well (see the fourth position in the stats at the bottom) as one of the projects it can process...

We've currently got 154 members crunching away, and as that stats graphic shows, as far as teams go, we're at position 492 out of 71,860 teams worldwide.

More info at: http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_team_graph.php?pr=bo&id=133060

18. Happy Birthday Josh Timonen!

Comment #118770 by RichardPrins on January 31, 2008 at 12:50 am

19. Darwin Day (Feb 12th) E-Cards

Comment #114465 by RichardPrins on January 22, 2008 at 8:52 am

No need for complex web pages, etc. A nice image will do just fine! Though if someone is able to make something in, let's say Flash, that would be cool too!

20. Fish out of water: Your Inner Fish

Comment #112254 by RichardPrins on January 16, 2008 at 4:21 pm

OneGoodMove has Shubin's appearance on The Colbert Report.

21. This Week's Flea

Comment #100449 by RichardPrins on December 18, 2007 at 4:06 pm

Credit goes to forum user darkhorse, who posted it first on the forum. I forwarded a link to Josh.

News on new specimens of Ctenocephalides atheosis is always welcome!

22. Beyond Belief 07: Enlightenment 2.0

Comment #94136 by RichardPrins on December 4, 2007 at 10:05 pm

You can also use keepvid.com to download the videos.

23. Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith

Comment #69364 by RichardPrins on September 11, 2007 at 2:17 am

One more translator available here.

Here's an English article on Ingeborg Beugel and her documentary.

24. OUT Campaign Launched, 'Scarlet Letter' Shirts Now Available!

Comment #59611 by RichardPrins on July 29, 2007 at 11:33 pm

25. Bill Moyers interviews E.O. Wilson

Comment #56336 by RichardPrins on July 15, 2007 at 6:14 am

Recent essay/editorial:

http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_6342261

26. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41170 by RichardPrins on May 15, 2007 at 3:09 pm

Admins note: Though comments can be critical in any way you like, try to keep it clean, as per the comment posting guidelines!

27. Atheists split on how to not believe

Comment #33957 by RichardPrins on April 22, 2007 at 9:05 pm

Thanks to Mel Z for pointing out the article to me.

28. NEXT MONDAY: Bill O'Reilly interviews Richard Dawkins

Comment #33194 by RichardPrins on April 19, 2007 at 2:34 pm

This should be interesting!

29. As Religious Strife Grows, Europe's Atheists Seize Pulpit

Comment #31894 by RichardPrins on April 14, 2007 at 10:03 pm

GOD IN THE NETHERLANDS 2007

Since 1966 the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands [http://www.scp.nl/english/] has sounded at regular intervals the religious feelings of the citizens of that country. Tomorrow 15 April, 2007 the newest report will be made public. The report can be summarized as follows : in the Netherlands belief in God continues to decrease

30. Growing Up in the Universe: 2-Disc DVD Set

Comment #29445 by RichardPrins on April 3, 2007 at 1:11 am

Excellent! Great job!

31. US Congressman Holds No God-Belief

Comment #25493 by RichardPrins on March 13, 2007 at 5:42 pm

From http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html

In the United States popular support for the cultural and moral superiority of theism is so extensive that popular disbelief in God ranks as another major societal fear factor.

32. Why there are almost no genuine atheists

Comment #24815 by RichardPrins on March 8, 2007 at 5:58 pm

That wasn't much of an article, and since most points have been already, I'll relate a similar claim (there are very few real atheists) made by someone the other day in a discussion, though the reasoning was different.

The reasoning was since most people are aware of the concept of a deity they can't be atheists. Just as funny, almost.

33. Why I Won't Debate Creationists

Comment #23707 by RichardPrins on March 2, 2007 at 6:35 am

Maybe creationists like in the first comment would be so good to show any evidence for their theological theories published in any peer-reviewed journal. I doubt they're capable of doing that since they are already not able to find any scientific work by Gould or Dawkins, but instead have to resort to their usual lies and/or distortions.

Their post also makes clear it makes very little sense to debate them, seeing how they have to resort to labelling people with psychological conditions and other various sorts of name-calling. Perhaps they, like some of their creationist colleagues, bought their titles on the internet or from some bogus religious university to give the appearance of respectability?

Get over yourselves, do some real research and try to get published in a scientific journal, instead of slandering real scientists and science in general in favour of your god-driven hypotheses.

34. Religion's Real Child Abuse

Comment #23691 by RichardPrins on March 2, 2007 at 5:30 am

The indoctrination obviously worked wonders on kwirth, since he's very committed to continue the fear-mongering.

Yet, others of similar beliefs have put these basic tactics behind them, like, as an article I read here earlier mentions, for instance the Anglicans who abolished hell in the twenties of the last century. They figured it was wrong, like so many other things reconsidered before, with the mind virus.

It's rather sad and wrong having to live one's life in fear, especially when brought on at an early age. Enough with the bogeymen.

35. Merkel wants EU to be vocal about Christian roots

Comment #23612 by RichardPrins on March 1, 2007 at 6:10 pm

Merkel sucking up to King George...

Hurray for Chirac.

36. Ken Miller on Intelligent Design

Comment #19254 by RichardPrins on January 26, 2007 at 12:31 am

Great video for showing what 'Intelligent Design' really is: religious pseudo-science and repackaged lies. Mind the gaps, cretinists!

37. God-less

Comment #16633 by RichardPrins on January 7, 2007 at 6:06 pm

From what I've seen, I don't think Sagan considered himself to be an atheist, but rather stayed with the agnostic label.

http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Carl_Sagan

38. Christmas Present to Defenders of Darwinism

Comment #13610 by RichardPrins on December 18, 2006 at 6:12 pm

About as good as their 'science'.

Dumbski strikes again...