Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Its Halloween, so lets take a break and enjoy a scary story. The following is not a professional movie, but is instead a nice little clip make for Halloween by a non-professional (it is the YouTube blogger Cristina Rad). I like it, it is well constructed suspense in a true Hitchcock style … the title tells … Read more
Not too long ago, a Muslim posted the following on FB … “What a load of B*&&*cks”, you might mutter in reply, and rightly so. This complete loon has tripped over a non-believer who suggests that Bestiality is just fine and so he is using a screenshot of it to establish his specific variation as … Read more
It is an Onion spoof of course… but funny because so much of the rhetoric that the Christian right spout is very much at odds with the philosophy they claim to embrace … love your neighbour (except those that are gay, or atheist, or voted democrat, etc…), give away all your money (but only so … Read more
Now this is truly cute, while we do know that many different varieties of animal will attempt to mimic human speech, for the first time a whale has been observed doing so. In this specific instance, it is a Beluga whale named Noc. Apparently when Noc started doing this it fooled a diver in the pool at … Read more
Dr. Paul Kurtz, former editor of the American Humanist Association’s Humanist magazine and founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, died yesterday on Oct. 21, 2012 at the age of 86. His death means the loss of one of secular humanism’s most prominent advocates. It was a great privilege to have known him, I shall personally miss … Read more
Fazil Say, who has played with the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and others, was put on trial in Turkey … his crime? he does not believe superstitious nonsense. So what exactly happened? The Guardian reports … for sending tweets that included one in April that joked about a call to prayer that … Read more