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Mars rover searching for signs of life
Lawrence Krauss - CNN - 14 August 2012 Comments
Author and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, discusses what it would be like if we found life on another planet. Continue to YouTube
TRT refuses to imagine world without religion, censures Lennon song at Olympic ceremony
- - Hurriyet Daily News (Turkish with articles in English and Turkish) - 14 August 2012 Comments
A presenter for Turkish state broadcaster TRT omitted part of iconic British musician John Lennon's lyrics that call for “no religion” during the broadcasting of the Olympic Games’ closing...
Why I won't take part in debate with fundamentalists
Richard Dawkins - for the Press and Journal - 14 August 2012 Comments
I was invited several months ago to speak at the Faclan Book Festival in Stornoway and I was delighted to accept, as I have a great affection for the Highlands and Islands but have never visited...
Study casts doubt on human-Neanderthal interbreeding theory
Alok Jha - The Guardian - 14 August 2012 Comments
A model of a Neanderthal man in a German museum. Photograph: Jochen Tack/Alamy When scientists discovered a few years ago that modern humans shared swaths of DNA with long-extinct Neanderthals,...
Parents who believe in miracles 'torturing' dying children, doctors warn
John Bingham - The Telegraph - 14 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to Linda Ward Selbie for the link Parents who trust in divine intervention, even after doctors say there is no hope of survival, are putting their children through aggressive but...
Graham Hancock questions Richard Dawkins on psychedelics and challenging his world view
Graham Hannock - daily grail - 13 August 2012 Comments
Professor Richard Dawkins is best-known as a vociferous critic of religion and a champion for the cause of science. So much so that he is often attacked for being dogmatic himself, in...
Why do organisms build tissues they seemingly never use?
- - Science Blog - 13 August 2012 Comments
Why, after millions of years of evolution, do organisms build structures that seemingly serve no purpose? A study conducted at Michigan State University and published in the current issue of The...
Atheist group targets presidential candidates' faith with billboards
Dan Merica - CNN - 13 August 2012 Comments
A prominent atheist group is using next month's Democratic National Convention to take aim at the presidential candidates' religion, putting up billboards targeting Mormonism and Christianity in...
Thinking style and belief in God
Art Markman - Psychology Today - 13 August 2012 Comments
There is no doubt that the human mind is prepared to believe in the divine. All over the world, cultures have created belief in one or many gods. These beliefs are common in societies regardless...
Pope's ex-butler Paolo Gabriele to stand trial
- - BBC News - 13 August 2012 Comments
The former butler to Pope Benedict XVI will stand trial for stealing confidential papers and leaking them to the press, a magistrate has ruled. Paolo Gabriele was arrested in May after police...
Neil Ormerod - Religion and Ethics - 13 August 2012 Comments
In the preface to his best-selling book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins explains the fundamental reason for writing the book: "If this book works as I intend, the religious readers who open it...
Don Lacey - Tucson Citizen - 13 August 2012 Comments
Jim Wilson, for this argument, assumes there is a Christian God and a hell. He then examines the character of those Christians that seem to take pleasure in telling their friends that they’re going...
'Plate Tectonics' Discovered on Mars--Found Nowhere Else Beyond Earth in Solar System
- - The Daily Galaxy - 12 August 2012 Comments
For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves...
New flat-faced human species possibly discovered
Charles Choi - CBS News - 12 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to rod-the-farmer for the link Four decades ago, in 1972, the Koobi Fora Research Project (KFRP) discovered the enigmatic fossilized skull known as KNM-ER 1470, or "1470" for short,...
A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr
Adam Cole - NPR - 12 August 2012 Comments
Guek Hock Ping/ZooKeys One day in May of 2011, Shaun Winterton was looking at pictures of bugs on the Internet when something unusual caught his eye. It was a close shot of a green lacewing —...
How Did Insect Metamorphosis Evolve?
Ferris Jabr - Scientific American - 11 August 2012 Comments
The evolution of metamorphosis remains somewhat mysterious, but biologists have gathered enough evidence to plausibly explain its origins In the 1830s a German naturalist named Renous was...
Prisoners pitch in to save endangered butterfly
Ed Yong - Nature News - 10 August 2012 Comments
At the Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women in Belfair, Washington, inmates are helping to save the endangered Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha taylori). Under the supervision...
Mr. Deity - YouTube - misterdeity - 10 August 2012 Comments
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British website ordered to remove MMR-autism claims
Staff - CTV News - 09 August 2012 Comments
Thanks to rod-the-farmer for the link A British website claiming to offer parents advice on vaccines has been ordered to remove wording that suggests the MMR vaccine is linked to some...
Scott Atran - Foreign Policy - 09 August 2012 Comments
What we don't understand about religion just might kill us. The era of world struggle between the great secular ideological -isms that began with the French Revolution and lasted through the...
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