Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
AronRa, pictured here (yes he totally looks like a Klingon, but is truly cool and very smart, I met him a few weeks ago), blogs about an academic study of atheists conducted by the sociology department of Berkeley University that he is taking part in, he basically posted his answers to their survey. One caught … Read more
I’ve stumbled across a book review in the UK’s Guardian, it is a review of Carl Sagan’s, “Demon-Haunted World” and has been reviewed by Tim Radford. In my mind, this is a must-have book and is very much a skeptical classic. Tim describes Sagan and the book as follows … Sagan spent most of his … Read more
We in the UK knew this day would come, the trend was obvious, well now it finally has. Amazon says it sells more books for Kindle than paperbacks and hardbacks combined on Amazon.co.uk, TechWeek Europe reports. So what are the numbers? Amazon said that for every 100 print books bought through its UK site, it sold 112 Kindle … Read more
US conservative pundit Bryan Fischer (pictured) has declared … “The only way now in America’s legal system that you can protect your child from being raised in a same-sex household is to get that kid into the Underground Railroad and get that child out of dodge.” He has beliefs … fine, lots of people do. He … Read more
The results of a “Religiosity and Atheism” poll conducted by WIN-Gallup International reveals a rising tide of non-belief. The media has, quite rightly, latched on to the 9% decline worldwide and the 22% drop in Ireland, but looking into the details, one big surprise for me was that 25% of people in Saudi Arabia are … Read more
Here it is … it went down like a storm (yes I was there) … if you are a skeptic, then you need to watch this, he is truly fired up. This is one of the best talks I’ve ever seen at a TAM.