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Global temperatures push March 2010 to hottest March on record

To all the global warming deniers...

Climate Change: Not A Matter Of Faith

The popular wisdom currently is that "Al Gore's climate change theory" is in big trouble due to scandals, bad science, tampered data, the coldest winter ever, and so on. Not a word of it is true of course.

Morality Without God (Video)

This video highlights the problems for any kind of credible Natural Theology...

God Is No Excuse

We are all born, and we have no choice in that. We have no choice as to the situation we are born into, good or bad. We have no responsibility for negative hardships that exist at the time of our birth anymore than we can take credit for any inherent advantages.

Some Initial Thoughts On The Draft DSM-5

As many of you know, a draft of the proposed DSM-5 is just out and it's bound to stir plenty of comment and controversy. First, I've got to congratulate the DSM-5 crafters for making the draft public and for seeking public comment.

2 Studies Find More Shunning Organized Religion

The Pew study, based on polls of all major religious groups, found that young adults are generally more accepting of homosexuality than previous generations, and "more inclined to see evolution as the best explanation of human life."

Memo to American Left: 'We Have Let Obama Down'

When Obama came into office with a mandate for change, the left sat back and waited. Instead, we should have mobilised.

Haiti's Political and Economic Earthquake

This morning, as political and financial leaders from around the world convene at the World Economic Forum, one of the central issues under discussion will be a strategy for Haiti's recovery.

Jewish group warns Israei officials at risk for civil suits

Four American Jewish groups are urging the US Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that could lead to Israeli officials being slammed with civil lawsuits in the United States.

Call for 'fundamental rethink' of value of work

Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than city bankers, according to a new method of calculating the value of different jobs published today. The new economics foundation (nef) called for a "fundamental rethink" of how the value of work was recognised and rewarded.

The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods

Once upon a time, some brave scientists had a noble dream of ridding our food of the plague of nutrients.

UK diplomat: US was 'hell bent' on Iraq invasion

LONDON – The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.

Top 10 uses for "Going Rogue"

You have found/run over a copy of Sarah Palin's "book." Now what?

Kirk Cameron's Crusade To Crush Evolution As Silly As It Sounds

Former TV teen idol Kirk Cameron has been on a crusade for years to discredit the theory of evolution.

Norwegian scientists raise concerns about mutated form of swine flu - washingtonpost.com

Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill with the disease, officials announced Friday.

Aspirin Kills 400% More People Than H1N1 Swine Flu

The July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains it as follows:

Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020

By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.

Fox News's Faux News

It must be stated over and over again: the Fox News Channel is not a news channel. It's a Republican party propaganda channel. As such, its first amendment right to say whatever it likes ought to be protected, but not its "right" to call itself "news".

The Evolution of the God Gene

Religion has the hallmarks of an evolved behavior, meaning that it exists because it was favored by natural selection. It is universal because it was wired into our neural circuitry before the ancestral human population dispersed from its African homeland.

Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body

Recent breakthroughs in bionics and lab-grown body parts — along with news last month that a Swiss research team aims to recreate the intricacies of the human brain within a decade — show science is rapidly creating many of the parts needed to build a fully functional human a …

Why is There Peace? - Steven Pinker

Over the past century, violent images from World War II concentration camps, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Iraq, and many other times and places have been seared into our collective consciousness.

Why America is Flunking Science

Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture

Back to the Future

After eight years of doing research (in the words of the former NIH director), with one hand tied behind their backs, scientists now have ethical guidelines for embryonic stem cell research that will channel federal support to the science that makes the United States a leader in  …

How to Make It in the Afterlife

I am writing from Athens, doing what might loosely be described as "work," with some rather bad news.

America, Land of the Irrational

Americans pride themselves on being scientifically sophisticated, and on living in the age of science.

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