Back from Springfield, Missouri as of last night, following our annual pilgrimage to the largest free skeptic/atheist/social justice conference this…
Category Skepticism
Over at Greg Laden’s blog, he has a post up entitled On the Eve of GOP Debate, Only Two Candidates…
In honor of world statistics day, a few statistics about the world. Firstly, Hans Rosling’s classic lecture about how the…
NPR had a badly-titled but well-reasoned piece which came across all my social media feeds earlier this week, originally entitled…
Over at Patheos Atheist, Jeff Lowder is plugging an old essay of his promoting a stricter separation of atheism and…
Yesterday morning, the number crunchers at FiveThirtyEight predicted the ten GOP candidates who would appear in the first prime-time debate…
No idea how I missed this before. Over at Professor Caleb Lack’s alma mater, a small team is conducting a…
Christopher Hitchens is generally credited with popularizing the idea that “what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed…
In a recently published study, an evolutionary biologist has been using ideas from evolutionary psychology to try to explain why…
Awhile back, I commented on two different ways to visualize the ongoing process of political polarization in the U.S. The…