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BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Girls ‘becoming Facebook addicts’
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Parents fear their daughters are becoming addicted to social networking sites, a girls’ school leader says.
Girls seem to be “permanently connected” to sites like Facebook and Bebo, president of the Girls’ Schools Association Jill Berry said.
This issue now tops the list of parents’ worries by some way, she told the association’s annual conference.
Mrs Berry also [...]
Skeptic » Reading Room » A Tribute to Carl Sagan: Our Place in the Universe
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Carl Sagan was a scholar and a visionary. He changed the world. His work still does. As I think back on the time I got to spend in his classes, I realize now what made him the best science communicator of his day. He loved discovery, he encouraged exploration, and he celebrated science. That last [...]
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Bacterial computers can crack mathematical problems | Science | guardian.co.uk
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Bacterial computers can crack mathematical problems | Science | guardian.co.uk
Scanning electron micrograph of E. coli bacteria. A rapidly growing colony can be programmed to act as a hugely powerful parallel computer. Photograph: Getty
Computers are evolving – literally. While the tech world argues netbooks vs notebooks, synthetic biologists are leaving traditional computers behind altogether. [...]
Activists Protest Church of Christian Science
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MEDICAL NEGLECT IS CHILD ABUSE! JOIN VICTIMS IN PROTEST!!!
June 8 from 11:30-3:30pm
200 Mass Ave., Boston, Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dr. Seth Asser, a pediatrician who is dedicated to the cause of protecting children from medical neglect, CHILD, Inc, the RI skeptics Society and the RI Atheist Society would like to invite you to protest the [...]
Why?
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The “Why?” page in the upper navigation bar features amateur videos from Naturalists.
I thought it would be great to see the guy and gal next door explaining the experiences and reasons that lead them to reject the supernatural.
More importantly, to put a human face on the Naturalist movement.
If you would like to contribute a video, [...]
Atheists An Increasingly Outspoken Minority
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CHICAGO (CBS) ? In this presidential campaign season, Democrats and Republicans alike have declared their religious faith. They do it, in part, because they believe it wins political points. After all, the latest Harris polls show somewhere between 73 and 80 percent of Americans believe in God. But what about the rest?
Agnostics say they just [...]
Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S.
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(AP) — A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
o be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far [...]
Meetup.com is a great way to find and meet other Naturalists!
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Whether you self-identify yourself as an Atheist, Pantheist, Naturalist, Humanist or Bright, you are likely to find a meetup in your local area using this online social networking service.
It is free to sign up and organizers pay a small monthly fee that they can charge to attendees. The many features of this networking service, such [...]
Invisible - Wear Yellow on Darwin’s Birthday
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Invisible
Unlike other discriminated against minority groups, naturalists (those
people that do not believe in supernatural causes) are mainly
invisible. As long as you keep your mouth shut, nobody need ever know
that you are an atheist.
But, Imagine if one morning every naturalist in the world woke up with
the letter N stenciled permanently on their forehead. People would
stare [...]
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Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D
This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and created by science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. A 3-D visualization of this model takes viewers on an amazing four-minute voyage through the 15-light-year-wide canyon. The model takes viewers through an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. This virtual space journey isn't the latest video game but one of several groundbreaking astronomy visualizations created by specialists at STScI, the science operations center for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The cinematic space odysseys are part of the new Imax film Hubble 3D, which opens today at select IMAX theaters worldwide. The 43-minute movie chronicles the 20-year life of Hubble and includes highlights from the May 2009 servicing mission to the Earth-orbiting observatory, with footage taken by the astronauts. The giant-screen film showcases some of Hubble's breathtaking iconic pictures, such as the Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation," as well as stunning views taken by the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3. While Hubble pictures of celestial objects are awe-inspiring, they are flat 2-D photographs. For this film, those 2-D images have been converted into 3-D environments, giving the audience the impression they are space travelers taking a tour of Hubble's most popular targets. Based on a Hubble image of Orion released in 2006, the visualization was a collaborative effort between science visualization specialists at STScI, including Greg Bacon, who sculpted the Orion Nebula digital model, with input from STScI astronomer Massimo Roberto; the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. For some of the sequences, STScI imaging specialists developed new techniques for transforming the 2-D Hubble images into 3-D. STScI image processing specialists Lisa Frattare and Zolt Levay, for example, created methods of splitting a giant gaseous pillar in the Carina Nebula into multiple layers to produce a 3-D effect, giving the structure depth. Image Credit: NASA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (STScI/AURA)
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