'Science' Archive
March 17th, 2013 / Critical Thought, Science /
Today's topic concerns one of the oldest forms of religious apologia: deliberately confusing the relationship between probability and mystery. ...
June 25th, 2012 / Atheism, Books, Religion, Science /
Last night I had the privilege of speaking with particle physicist and New Atheist author Dr. Victor J. Stenger ...
April 9th, 2011 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Science /
The Energy Philosopher Episode 2: All thermal power plants require generous amounts of water, and become less efficient in hot weather. ...
March 27th, 2011 / Current Affairs, Science /
I know it seems repetitive to keep talking about the climate, but until the dismal US Gallup climate numbers ...
December 30th, 2010 / Current Affairs, Science /
The world remains mired in blind indifference to a primal scream emanating from our future. If we could hear it, ...
February 11th, 2010 / Religion, Science /
I've maintained that religion and spirituality are inversely correlated with high-functioning intelligence. Â (previous article, Religion Rots Your Brain And ...
February 10th, 2010 / Critical Thought, Science, Stupid Things /
An article forwarded to me by a friend brings up the old New-Age argument, this time dolled up in ...
August 20th, 2009 / Current Affairs, Singularity, Society /
It's really nice to be able to discuss disagreements about political philosophy without being called a liar, lunatic, thief ...
May 25th, 2009 / Psychology, Singularity /
The Singularity is a concept first discussed by Vernor Vinge in the 1980s. Later, Ray Kurzweil became one of its ...
May 20th, 2009 / Energy Transition, Newswire, Science /
According to NASA, the astronauts on the International Space Station are now beginning to drink water purified from their own urine, sweat, and exhalations. While it's been possible for ...
February 15th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Psychology, Science /
Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...
February 7th, 2009 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Psychology, Science /
R Donaldson - February 2009
Water, Water
It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...
November 30th, 2008 / Critical Thought, Science /
My good friend Adam Lee, also known as Ebonmuse, who runs one of the most popular and enduring atheist sites Daylight Atheism, wrote ...
May 10th, 2008 / Books, Singularity /
Neurologist Laments Tech-Driven Brain Changes Human identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, could be facing an unprecedented crisis. ...
April 17th, 2008 / Film, Religion, Science /
Variety is my bible. It's indispensable daily reading in my business. Which is why I was so incensed by their Expelled review. The ...
April 12th, 2008 / Atheism, Critical Thought, Science /
"People in the middle ages didn't know about radio waves, yet they were everywhere. They just didn't have receivers in those days. How can ...
April 8th, 2008 / Newswire, Religion, Science /
As all students of Darwin know, evolution occurs when there is variation in a population; where some variants confer a survival or reproductive advantage to the individual, and where the ...
April 7th, 2008 / Critical Thought, Science /
Recently I was called out by Elisheva Hannah Levin, a hypocritical homeschooling mom (supposedly a degreed Biologist). Levin balked at my stance (...
February 16th, 2008 / Future Tech, Newswire, Religion, Science, Society /
Addressing scientists Feb. 15, 2008 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dietram Scheufele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of life sciences communication, presented ...
January 21st, 2008 / Critical Thought, Newswire, Science /
Why Science "Sucks" (Is Damned Inconvenient)
Nice piece from Wired on the sad state of the public perception of science. Though I disagree with the idea that science can't handle ...
December 23rd, 2007 / Atheism, Religion, Science /
Man and God, From the UK Times Online
It has been a good year for atheists. Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion has sold more than ...
November 6th, 2007 / Newswire, Psychology, Science /
Well, for Leon R Kass’ benefit, the reality is that we are indeed a very small speck in a very large universe. It's also a reality that many of the ...
October 25th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Science /
In January 1955, Homer Jacobson, a chemistry professor at Brooklyn College, published a paper called “Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life” in American Scientist, the journal of Sigma Xi, ...
October 15th, 2007 / Energy Transition, Science /
New Planet Atheism blogger Tom Stelene (Al-Kafir Akbar!) seemed promising, but he moved quickly from some initial rational posts into full-bore "wingnut" climate-change ...
September 28th, 2007 / Science /
Last night I was visited by this magnificent lifeform and I grabbed my camera. Even funnier that I had just watched Pan's Labyrinth which has a central character modeled after ...