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Neurologist Laments Tech-Driven Brain Changes
Neurologist Laments Tech-Driven Brain Changes Human identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, could be facing an unprecedented crisis. ...
www.isanyoneupthere.com
Oh, how the credulous are shaking in their boots. Searching high and low like jonesing addicts for their security blankets, their soporifics. Now comes ...
The Misanthropic Fury of Chris Hedges
Ebonmuse at Daylight Atheism recently gave Chris Hedges--author of I Don't Believe in Atheists--a good thumping. Now Chris Swanson has posted another excellent deconstruction of Hedges ridiculous arguments ...
Book Review: The Al Qaeda Reader
The Al Qaeda Reader: Martyrdom or Mortardom?
by: Gary H. Johnson, Jr.
Recently, Raymond Ibrahim edited and translated a series of press releases by Al Qaeda's leadership ...
The Al-Qaeda Reader
I happened upon an amazing interview this morning with Raymond Ibrahim on KPCC / AirTalk with Larry Mantle. Ibrahim has translated and released a number ...
Look Ma, No Ego!
After my initial recent correspondence with an Eckhart Tolle fan (previous post), I began a dialog with some of my close associates. We were wondering ...
Eckhart Tolle In My Mail
I received the following email from a former CUT member recommending I read the latest (2005) Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth. I think the ...
Peacemakers in Action: Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution
Since roughly 83% of the world's population claims some form of religious adherence, the fact that many of those 5 billion or so adherents do good ...
The Black Sun Humanist-Atheist Bookshelf
The book list is finally posted. I've been intending to update this since the BSJ 3.0 launch on February 12, 2007. But like many of ...
Twisted: Mark Warren on Hitchens
Esquire executive editor Mark Warren's commentary about Christopher Hitchens is all over the map. A masterpiece of post-modernist gobbledygook. A paragon of doublespeak. Warren writes in praise of Christopher Hitchens' ...
Book Review: The God Part of the Brain
Summary:
Matthew Alper is a lot smarter than he initially lets on. He begins his narrative in The God Part of the Brain softly and carefully as ...
The Book List
I've been tagged by olly over at 10,000 Reasons to Doubt the Fish. So here is my book list:
1. A book that changed your lifeThere were two, ...
Book Review: 102 Minutes
This is what 102 minutes is about, the title referring to the time between when the first plane hit the first tower, and the second tower collapsed. Jim Dwyer and ...
Apparent Complexity Made Simple
A 20th Anniversary Review of The Blind Watchmaker:
Intelligent Design seems like it should be old news. Atheists all over the world have peeled back the mask of the carefully ...
On Bullshit
Here is an excerpt of a great little book called "On Bullshit" by Harry Frankfurt. The full text can be viewed here.One of the most salient features of ...
Ray Kurzweil on Future Energy
Ray Kurzweil's new book, "The Singularity is Near" is a stunning compendium of future history. To those not familiar with Kurzweil's method, the book reads like far-fetched science fiction. In ...
Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby, PhD
I wanted an introduction to the rituals of Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic South American plant concoction, something I'd heard about from a friend and thought I might like to experience at ...