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A world of plastic

So I'm thinking a lot about this ecoliteracy and thinking about our evolved state in the world and what we need to do. My friend Patrick sent this article, "Plastic Ocean: Our Oceans Are Turning Into Plastic. Are We?" to me a little while back and it is...

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Eco-Realism Part II

"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side.' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already…What ...

Eco-realism and other ideologies

As a graduate student in education right now, I am faced with an interesting barrage of science. I am taking ...

Penn State non-believers unite

Last week I was coming off of campus after my Educational Psychology class and lo and behold, at the gates of the ...

Why won't this thing work?

In general, I avoid these kinds of things but...I really like this one. A former student of mine sent it along to me ...

Modern prophets of atheism's demise are as deluded as they say they aren't

It's pretty sad, not to mention telling, when some religious folks like Denyse O'Leary (see also here and here)and ...

Doubting Teresa

Sam Harris has a new article at Newsweek where he exposes Mother Teresa's questions about her own faith. Christopher ...

Creationists who can't stop rewriting history

Over at Coral Ridge Ministries they've broadcast about everyone's favorite topic in a program called Darwin's Deadly ...

The 'happy' life?

“The struggle itself for the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.” - Albert Camus, “They Myth of Sisyhus” ...

Historical revisionists and Hindu prayers in Congress

Over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars Ed Brayton has posted a really good rebuttal to Rep. Sali (R.-Idaho) who ...

A Brief Rant

I am not a believer in God, gods, spirits or any of the other nonsense that theists have foisted onto the masses for ...

Local governments get in bed with fundamentalism

Here we go. As if the Answers in Genesis scientificky sciencey anti-museum weren't awful enough on its own, a local ...

ID apologists just keep whining.

Over at Denyse O'Leary's Post-Darwinistshe's posted an entry that laments poor Michael Behe's thrashing by those nasty ...

Creationists for genocide: A new post at TalkReason

Over at TalkReason, Professor Hector Avalos has posted a new article called "Creationists for Genocide" which refutes ...

This just in from EXPELLED! the movie

Hmmm. So I thought I'd check out what you get when you sign up for material from the folks at EXPELLED and so far, I ...

A new ID movie, EXPELLED! is yet more of the 'wedge'

So PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, and Eugenie Scott are featured in a new ID movie called Expelled! that features Ben ...

Michael Schermer on the Colbert Report

Michael Schermer, editor of Skeptic magazine appeared on the Colbert Report and promoted science. I like Schermer more ...

The end of an era: Nick Matzke leaves NCSE

Everyone say, "Bye Nick. We'll miss you." Nick was the wizard behind the curtain at the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial in ...

CFI Secular Society Conference

Well, here is another thing I'd love to be able to attend. Given that I'm already booked pretty heavily, we'll see ...

New computer. New editing post. New semester.

Yesterday I got my new computer, a 2007 MacBook. So far, so good. It's a sexy little thing. Let's hope it keeps ...

Civil Rights issue or P.R. problem: The New Atheists

Over at Framing Science, they've been posting a bunch about how the New Atheists (led by Dawkins, Dennett, Harris ...

Challenging Christian Nationalism at the USAF

This is an interesting piece over at The Humanist by Carlos Bertha. For a few years now we've been hearing reports ...
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