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Deborah Strod - Should Humanists Do Rituals?
It is winter, the season of ritual! It seems there are more religious celebrations packed into these months than any other time of year: Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, and a bit earlier, Diwali and Eid. There are religious rituals you’re invited to out of friendship and other rituals you may feel obligated to join [...]
3Apr2010 | will | 0 comments | Continued
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Girls ‘becoming Facebook addicts’
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
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 [...]
17Nov2009 | will | 0 comments | Continued
Bacterial computers can crack mathematical problems | Science | guardian.co.uk
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
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?
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
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.
(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!
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
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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A Chameleon Sky
The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)
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