Support for Christian prayer in U.S. public schools varies widely by state.
American Atheists denounces final approval of bible-infused Texas reading list.
‘Trump wears thin after a while’: Evangelicals bail on lame-duck president.
Thousands of proud men gather in central Washington for heterosexual activities.
Trump will present the World Cup trophy. It could be very awkward.
World of Woo: The Wellness Industry.
Environment: New AI agent tallies a gadget’s emissions in the time it takes to brew tea.
A biohacker gives birth.
Even when facts are agreed upon, interpretations are wildly different.
Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea.
Three million years after Lucy walked upright in Africa, the inside story of another landmark journey.
Measles has spent the last year fighting Utah while the Flu is summering in Texas.
How humanism became the new driver of futurism.
How AI can enable public surveillance.
Consciousness is what matter can do when life has organized it into a sufficiently integrated, self-monitoring, world-modelling system. Arguments for more awe and wonder are fine but they fail when they allow “mystery” to start doing the work that evidence has not done. We cannot turn a complex human being into a category and then pretend the category is science when it is just phrenology wearing a modern lab coat.
Sunday Book Club: A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America.
Some photographs taken last week. 15 great images of the Universe.
While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……
Coffee Break Videos: “Ultimate Proof of God” gets debunked. Penn Jillette’s criticism of Organized Religion. AI and the Future of Society.
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