'Science' Archive
Brain Damage Increases ‘Spirituality’
I've maintained that religion and spirituality are inversely correlated with high-functioning intelligence. Â (previous article, Religion Rots Your Brain And ...
Solipsism, Again
An article forwarded to me by a friend brings up the old New-Age argument, this time dolled up in ...
Anarchy: The Civil Discussion, Part 1
It's really nice to be able to discuss disagreements about political philosophy without being called a liar, lunatic, thief ...
Singularity: The Sum of All Fears
The Singularity is a concept first discussed by Vernor Vinge in the 1980s. Later, Ray Kurzweil became one of its ...
Astronauts Begin To Drink Recycled Water
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 ...
The Brain, Engine of Creativity
Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...
So, How Thirsty Are You?
R Donaldson - February 2009
Water, Water
It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...
Why I Choose Reality
My good friend Adam Lee, also known as Ebonmuse, who runs one of the most popular and enduring atheist sites Daylight Atheism, wrote ...
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. ...
Expelled: Variety Review Gets it Stupefyingly Wrong
Variety is my bible. It's indispensable daily reading in my business. Which is why I was so incensed by their Expelled review. The ...
The “Radio Wave” Argument
"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 ...
Classroom Evolution Kids Can Watch
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 ...
Science Education is not Totalitarianism
Recently I was called out by Elisheva Hannah Levin, a hypocritical homeschooling mom (supposedly a degreed Biologist). Levin balked at my stance (...
Religious Delusion Hampers Nanotechnology
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 ...
Why Science “Sucks” (Is Damned Inconvenient)
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 ...
Spirituality: Self-Awareness, not Self-Delusion
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 ...
Leon R. Kass’ Sentimentality Flayed by Logic
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 ...
Scientist Retracts Paper Cited by Creationists
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, ...
Climate-Change Denial: Aren’t We Past That?
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 ...
Praying I Can Deal With
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 ...
Out-of-body Experiences Debunked
LONDON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- British and other European researchers have found a way to induce out-of-body experiences using virtual reality goggles. The researchers, who used the ...
“Biofilm” Alert
For years we've been hearing about increases in "antibiotic-resistant bacteria." This was a troubling enough development. Not being a microbiologist, I assumed that the problem was ...
The Singularity Summit
The Singularity Summit was held earlier this month in San Francisco. Audio of all the sessions is available at no charge. There's been considerable ...
Yogi Guru Appropriates Term “Nanotechnology”
Yogi Guru Appropriates Term "Nanotechnology"
As could be expected after witnessing their rank abuse of the term "quantum," it was only a matter of time before the meme-thieves in the ...
Greenland Ice Melt Triggers Earthquakes
The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off. Scientists monitoring events ...