Pew Research: Reports of God’s Resurrection have been greatly exaggerated.
Religious freedom versus publicly funded discrimination in Colorado.
If you would object to the State imposing atheism on your children, on what grounds do you support the State facilitating the imposition of religion on somebody else’s?
American Atheists sue Trump and the DOD over Hegseth’s disrespect towards service members.
Idaho’s abortion ban is driving OB-GYNs away. A Mormon doctor says it’s unsustainable.
World of Woo: If businesses can sell products without completing expensive clinical trials, what incentive remains to conduct those trials?
Environment: We’re way closer to protecting 30% of the planet than we knew. But there’s a catch.
Can physics teach us how to think about life without pretending that life is a physics problem? Can you ever really think what someone else is thinking?
Are we discovering evidence of consciousness in artificial intelligence, or are we discovering how readily human consciousness attributes minds to artificial intelligence? What is artificial general intelligence – and is it already here?
The most important thing a scientific institution can fund is the freedom to investigate a question whose importance nobody yet understands.
Is mosquito extinction morally wrong? Gene drives and the limits of utilitarianism.
A Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI.
The ethics of creating “War Dogs”.
Sunday Book Club: How We Govern Our Minds Through Others: Epistemic Autonomy Beyond the Myth of Independence. (Free to download and read).
Some photographs taken last week.
While you are waiting for the kettle to boil.
Podcast: What happens when the rate at which LLMs improve their reasoning exceeds the rate at which humans improve their ability to evaluate that reasoning?
Coffee Break Videos: The 2026 Golden Crocoduck Award! Humanist of the Year Award: The pathetic cancellation of Richard Dawkins. We shouldn’t reason with the Religious Right.
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