Penn Gillette once said that human progress is a bit like the stock market. It can be hard to notice…
It’s hard not to feel a little sad for God (or gods, if you like). There was a time when…
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -Attributed to Bernard Baruch Certain English words have gained a…
We’re delighted to unveil the new media room here at Skeptic Ink, SINergy. Skeptic Ink is not just a community…
James Randi has announced this year’s winners. The Pigasus awards highlight some of the worst people in our country each…
I originally wrote this for my old secular student blog. But, in the great Jesus-y Easter tradition, I will re-tell…
In recent months there has been significant chatter on the blogs and twitters about atheist in-fighting and division. If you…
With the US Supreme Court hearing arguments today about whether or not to dash California’s anti-gay marriage law (Prop 8),…
As this will be the first TAM I will be able to attend, I am plenty excited for it. This year the much under-rated author Susan Jacoby is keynoting. Jacoby wrote The Age of American Unreason and many other books and I am very much looking forward to her address.
Recently Harvard cognitive psychologist and noted ev psych interlocutor Steven Pinker participated in a crowd-sourced interview on the popular social…