A ‘tsunami’ of church closings is poised to remake America.
“None” is not synonymous with atheist. Combining atheists, agnostics and people who simply don’t belong to a religion can obscure considerably more than it reveals. The dataset has been made publicly available, so I expect some interesting papers to emerge from this.
The Department of Holy War creates an Office of Religious Affairs amid church–state concerns. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is not happy with Pious Petey.
In Ireland the Convention on Education is still ignoring the constitutional and human rights of Irish children. A genuinely secular state school would instead teach about religions and nonreligious worldviews without promoting any of them.
In the UK, Westminster humanists continue pushing reform of religion in schools. But why should a publicly funded education system presume a religious framework in the first place?
World of Woo: When good antibiotic advice goes bad: four myths that refuse to die.
Environment: Studying this super El Niño could save lives.
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy. Being anti-establishment doesn’t make you independent of vested interests. It can simply create a new establishment with different vested interests.
Quantum mechanics describes our relationship with reality, not reality itself.
What do we mean by intelligence, reason, autonomy and free will before we confidently declare which entities possess them?
Democratic government legitimately determines public policy priorities. It doesn’t follow that political authority determines scientific validity.
If women freely exercising political power threatens your preferred social order, is the problem women’s political power—or your social order? Well Doug, which is it?
This court should not undermine Colorado’s commitment to equality by transforming religious freedom into a doctrine that mandates taxpayer-subsidized discrimination.
What is the hypothesis of Mortality Salience? (see second video).
What is Common Rationality?
Sunday Book Club: Lost in Curiosity.
Some photographs taken last month.
While you are waiting for the kettle to boil.
Coffee Break Videos: I enjoy pissing off religious bigots too. The Psychology behind Religion and Death. First nominees for the 2026 Golden Crocoduck. No! They didn’t find Noah’s Ark. Meta’s Pervert Glasses are going to end Privacy. Does Consciousness break the Laws of Physics?
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