Tomorrow, the NCSE will release a response to Ray Comfort's tricked-out version of Darwin's Origin of Species. I got a sneak preview of the web site and if you are good, I can let you see it too. ...
Though the Sun is gone, I have a light. -Kurt Cobain Last time we visited dark energy, we discussed its initial discovery. This came about from the fact that supernovae observed with a certain re...
Check out the Popular Culture Translator. Alien Cow Abductions ... it's a real problem. Click here to find out more. Finally, all the important philosophical quotes you will ever need in one plac...
I forgot, but it was four days ago. Read the comments on this post...
Louis Menand has a must-read article on what's wrong with graduate education in the Harvard Magazine:Lives are warped because of the length and uncertainty of the doctoral education process. Many p...
The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago revoked a speaking invitation to Sunsara Taylor, which led to much drama. I've already posted Taylor's version of events; now the society has sent me theirs,...
Shulinab Nursery School is located in a small village of 500 people. The school can't get enough water from rainwater, so they need to set up a system that will let them get water pumped from a nea...
Zombies are attacking Detroit! This is why all of the brains are disappearing out of the city! Check out the picture here's the undeniable evidence:Not only are the Zombies eating Detroit's brain...
tags: birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz[Mystery bird] photographed at Bob Road, Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]Image: Joseph Kennedy, 4 August 2009 [larger...
And the current issue is HERE. Read the comments on this post...
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are certainly aware that PLoS has started making article-level metrics available for all articles.Today, we added one of the most important sets of suc...
The Guardian has a really appalling article about a group of Islamist hardliners in Iraq targeting and killing gays in that country.Sitting on the floor, wearing traditional Islamic clothes and hol...
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we will make the goal. - Jerome P. Fleishman Read the comm...
Pity poor Peter Duesberg.Back in the 1980s, he was on the top of the world, scientifically speaking. A brilliant virologist with an impressive record of accomplishment, publication, and funding, he...
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. - Anthony Trollope Read the comments on this post...
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