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What do we know about the science of team success?
The role of teams in organizations has been growing, spurred by globalization and aided by communications technology. Teamwork has become a standard structure and process in most organizations today. Leaders and management consultants often assume that a team approach to work produces superior results. Yet, only recently has research identified both [...]
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Muhammad Cartoonist Lars Vilks Attacked During College Lecture - AOL News
Muhammad Cartoonist Lars Vilks Attacked During College Lecture - AOL News
May 11 — A Swedish artist who depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog was attacked today while delivering a university lecture on artistic freedom.
Lars Vilks was speaking at Uppsala University in Sweden when a man jumped onstage and head-butted him. [...]
Vatican Justice | Project Reason
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Sam Harris
I confess that, as a critic of religion, I have paid too little attention to the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Frankly, it always felt unsportsmanlike to shoot so large and languorous a fish in so tiny a barrel. This scandal was one of the most spectacular “own goals” in the history [...]
Joseph and Mary in bed – obscene or illuminating? – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
A billboard showing a somber Mary and Joseph laying in bed together with the caption “Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow,” is controversial, but not obscene, according to a decision by New Zealand’s Advertising Standards Authorities.
The billboard, posted outside St. Matthew-in-the-city Anglican Church in Auckland, New Zealand, sparked outrage and vandalism by [...]
Atheists question spirituality award at National Academy of Sciences - Science Fair: Science and Space News - USATODAY.com
The award of a prize celebrating spiritual scientists at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences headquarters this week has irritated some atheist science-bloggers .
The 2010 Templeton Prize Laureate will be announced Thursday at the NAS headquarters in Washington D.C. at 11 a.m. ET. The $1.5 million prize is given by the John Templeton Foundation. [...]
What is Freedom From Religion? Freedom of Religion Requires Freedom From Religion
Conservatives insist that the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion, and argue against strict separation of church and state. Too often, though, conservatives seem to have a flawed understanding of what freedom from religion really entails and fail to realize that freedom from religion is crucial to religious liberty in general.
It is [...]
Joey Nelson: Atheists Have No One to Thank on Thanksgiving
I read a lot of material written by religious theists — mostly Christians — about atheists and atheism. I see a lot of different myths, misconceptions, mistakes, and even outright lies. Too many to count, in fact. One characteristic which I see that is common to so many different myths and lies, though, is the [...]
25Nov2009 | Admin | 1 comment | Continued
The Associated Press: Atheist student groups flower on college campuses
AMES, Iowa — The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: “Ask an Atheist.”
Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression before eyes drift down to a word many Americans rank down there with “socialist.”
Bodnar is the happy face of [...]
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 [...]
How to Say You Don’t Believe
By Nica Lalli
writer, educator
With the recent publication of the new American Religious Identification Survey, we now know that there is a full 20% of the U.S. population that claims their religious identity as either a “none” (one who identifies as non-religious) or a “don’t know” (one who chooses to not answer the religion question or [...]
Darwinist Teacher Violates Establishment Clause?
My Keloland Colleague Cory Heidelberger beat me to this one. From FoxNews:
A federal judge ruled that a public high school history teacher violated the First Amendment when he called creationism “superstitious nonsense” during a classroom lecture.
U.S. District Judge James Selna issued the ruling Friday after a 16-month legal battle between student Chad Farnan [...]
More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying “Don’t Believe in God? You Are Not Alone,” the group’s 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman’s living room to grapple with the fallout.
The problem was not that the group, the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, had [...]
Following atheist trend, Britons seek ‘de-baptism’
LONDON (AFP) — More than 100,000 people have recently downloaded “certificates of de-baptism” from the Internet to renounce their Christian faith.
The initiative launched by a group called the National Secular Society (NSS) follows atheist campaigns here and elsewhere, including a controversial advert displayed on London buses which declared: “There’s probably no God.”
“We now produce a [...]
Activism 101
Activism 101
1. What Is an Atheist Radical?
A radical seeks fundamental changes in political, social, economic, or cultural institutions and power relationships. Since atheism doesn’t imply any particular political outlook and is compatible with just about any system, it’s a bit difficult to talk sensibly about atheist radicals. However, when the subject turns to the elimination [...]
Theists growing concern with ‘New Atheism’
How odd it seems to me that just after I finished reading an article by fellow Examiner, Paul Fidalgo, last night that I should go to my e-mail inbox and find an alert of an article of a very similar nature. And then, this morning, again, two more alerts to yet another article and another tidbit.
It seems there is [...]
Fired For Being an Atheist?
Liz Ditz writes about a teacher in Texas, Richard Mullens, who says he was fired for being an atheist and a liberal. You can read the teacher’s statement on the situation at Democracy for America and, if the allegations are true, they’re pretty disturbing. Here’s the statement of facts from Mullen:
I, Richard Mullens, have been [...]
Pushing Back Against the Push-Back
I was unaware that writing books, giving lectures and making tv appearances can now be defined as fanatical. Or by saying “fanatically intolerant atheism personified by Richard Dawkins” is he suggesting that Dawkins and Hitchens are known to be hoarding weapons and organising groups of martyrs in order to suicide bomb churches and the like, [...]
30Dec2008 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Omar Call Preaches Atheism on Tempe’s Mill Avenue
Usually, street preachers share the word of God. For the past several years on Mill, you haven’t been able to walk from one bar to another without tripping over someone sharing the love of Christ through an amplifier or a stack of Bible tracts.
But this blue velvet guy is a different kind of preacher. He’s [...]
Study: Poverty dramatically affects children’s brains
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
A new study finds that certain brain functions of some low-income 9- and 10-year-olds pale in comparison with those of wealthy children and that the difference is almost equivalent to the damage from a stroke.
“It is a similar pattern to what’s seen in patients with strokes that have led to lesions [...]
Atheist students in Edmonton want God out of speech
EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 2 (UPI) — A move is afoot by Canadian student atheists and agnostics to have references to God removed from the University of Alberta’s convocation ceremony.For more than 100 years, the chancellor’s address to the graduates has included the call for graduates use their degrees “for the glory of God,” the Edmonton [...]
10Dec2008 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Town sued after billboard promoting atheism removed
By DAVID OLSON
The Press-Enterprise
A Wisconsin group recently sued the city of Rancho Cucamonga for its alleged role in the removal of a billboard promoting atheism.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed the lawsuit in U.S. district court in Los Angeles against the city and the director of its redevelopment agency, Linda Daniels.
The group had paid [...]
Missing atheist sign found in Washington state
CNN) — An atheist sign criticizing Christianity that was erected alongside a Nativity scene was taken from the Legislative Building in Olympia, Washington, on Friday and later found in a ditch.
An employee from country radio station KMPS-FM in Seattle told CNN the sign was dropped off at the station by someone who found it in [...]
Atheism and Morality
By Shannon Murphy
Am I immoral? Some would argue so. Not because of my actions, of course, or because of what I say, but because of what I believe—or rather, what I don’t believe. I don’t believe in a God, a heavenly being, a higher power. For me, there is no white light at the end [...]
4Dec2008 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
Billboard promoting atheism will be removed
An Ontario billboard company is removing a controversial Rancho Cucamonga billboard promoting atheism after receiving complaints, according to the group that paid for the advertisement.
The billboard, at the busy corner of Archibald Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, says “Imagine No Religion” in large letters on a stained-glass background. Underneath is the name of the group, “Freedom [...]
U.S. getting its own atheism bus campaign
Atheists seem to have a thing for buses. We recently wrote about the bus ads in London which proclaimed, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” Along these same lines, Washington, D.C., is now getting its own atheist bus campaign, headlined, “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ [...]
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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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