'Science' Archive
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 ...
The Dopler Effect
[UPDATED 08.24.07 -- Now that I've finished the series]
Well, first an apology for what was a very hasty post. This is positively the last time I will review a series ...
Monkeys Take Over Town
This startling story of vervet monkeys should remind us of how smart and amazingly human-like they actually are. They form raiding parties. They post lookouts and communicate. They follow ...
The Mind Shuts When There’s No Evidence
In a commentary in USA Today called "Secularists, What Happened to the Open Mind?," Tom Krattenmaker takes secularists to task for "leaving their critical thinking at the door" regarding ...
Self-replication and evolution occur in inorganic matter
Now, an international team has discovered that under the right conditions, particles of inorganic dust can become organised into helical structures. These structures can then interact with each other in ...
The Enemies of Reason
It's hard to imagine there are any atheists or humanists who don't know about Richard Dawkins' new series. But it's so powerful and well put together, ...
NYC Health Officials Move To Get Babies Off Bottle
Even though some formulas use nutrients found in breast milk, city doctors say research proves the natural way is best. "Decrease in infections, upper respiratory, ear," said ...
Join the World Community Grid
An effortless way for Humanists to make a lasting contribution to human progress is through donation of spare CPU cycles. So far, hundreds of thousands of ...
Reefer Madness…Again
Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40%
A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia by more than 40 per cent, a disturbing ...
Pope acquiesces to evolution, climate change
H/T Religious Freaks
Pope: Creation vs. Evolution Clash an 'Absurdity'
Pope Benedict XVI said the debate raging in some countries — particularly the United States and his native Germany — ...
Atheist ‘Metaphysics’ and Religious Equivocation
The diagram represents the "Knowledge Paradigm" of science. It says simply and visually:
We have a very limited scope of knowledge. Everything we do know about ...
The Battle for the Human Soul
Graphic from IHT.
The International Herald Tribune ran a fantastic article today, which illustrates the increasing futility of religions maintaining their doctrines of mind/body and spirit/matter ...
Global Cooling: More FUD from Drudge
The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling
Worse than we thought–again
Instead of sea levels rising by about 40 centimetres, as the IPCC predicts in one of its computer forecasts, the true rise might be as great as several metres by ...
Google’s street views have privacy advocates crying
Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world's most popular Internet search firm of breaking its ...
NASA chief regrets remarks on global warming
LOS ANGELES - The head of NASA told scientists and engineers that he regrets airing his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview, according to a video ...
Forget the Big Bang Theory
Now, renegade physicists are making a new case. That it didn't all start in an instant. That there is no beginning, and no end. And those are fighting words in ...
Worried families ditch their Wi-Fi
Sinead Griffiths, a researcher from Walthamstow, north-east London, also had Wi-Fi removed from her home. She says: "There is not enough information available on the subject. I don't want to ...
Clerics, misinformation defeat condoms in Algeria
They face an uphill task. Many Algerians in television interviews claimed AIDS can be transmitted simply by being in contact with someone who had it. Others, swayed by hard-line clerics, ...
The Case for Mandatory Organ Donation
Now some leading ethicists and doctors are re-examining the principle of informed consent in government organ-donor programs, arguing that harvesting from cadavers should be a routine procedure just like autopsies ...
Arctic Ice Retreating More Quickly Than Computer Models Project
BOULDER—Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new study concludes. The research, by scientists at the National ...
Mouse brain simulated on computer
US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer. The scientists ran a "cortical simulator" that was as big and as complex as half ...
Scientists to build robot society
Scientists in Dundee have announced plans to create a "robot village" in an effort to learn how different cultures emerge in society. The University of Abertay's four-year ...