Ben Stein and The Descent of Man = quote mining

I am preparing some slides for The Enlightenment Show which we are shooting next Sunday. Mark and I saw the movie on Sat. There were about ten folks in the theater, (noon showing). I will talk on the whole movie later but first everyone should see this. (Steve Mirskey and John [...]

Nerd girls rock my world

OK, my girl is far from being stereotypically nerdish, but she is a Latin scholar and Classicist and smart girls are my type. Anyway, a little bit of fun on a beautiful sunny Sunday.

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Friendly Atheist Contest

[ November 30, 2008; 1:00 am; December 10, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The Friendly Atheist has another contest going. Our very own theodoersing placed in the top 3 on this one, I only got 10th, I’m pretty sure theo cheated These are fun to do, I created an atheist motivational poster on my personal blog, here. Here are the top 10 atheist motivational posters on FriendlyAtheist’s [...]

Who says skeptics are cynical and don’t believe in anything…

Go Stephen Hawking and Mythbusters!  I saw this on TV and then googled it.  It is a hit.

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I don’t mean to brag (Ok, yeah I do!)

I just wanted to brag about placing 3rd in the Friendly Atheist’s simile contest. This is the post where I should be showered with praise. Ok, more likely laughed offstage! He’s got a new contest going on where you have to make up a poster on atheism. I think I’ll give [...]

The Enlightenment Show Update

A handful of our members are involved in producing a public access show, called The Enlightenment Show. It is played locally on Comcast and Verizon FiOS, check your local listings for channel and times.
If however you can’t seem to catch the show locally (or you are not local) we now offer it online on our [...]

“SHAM- How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless” by Steve Salerno. A review.

SHAM – How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless by Steve Salerno

“SHAM- How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless” by Steve Salerno. A review
SHAM is an acronym for the self-help and actualization movement and it is the ultimate self-book for self-help books. This journey in skepticism shines a light on the 8.53 billion [...]

Arguing Against Arguments Against Evolution

PZ Myers has found another creationist who is spreading misinformation.

The Four Horsemen are Online

Richard Dawkins’ “The Four Horsemen” roundtable discussion video is online in two parts, hosted on Google. This is a very interesting video.
One note is that it’s also available on DVD. The DVD sale proceeds go to the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Security Trust.
Via Richard Dawkins.

On The Media: The Convenient Untruths

WNYC’s On The Media has a short interview with Farhad Manjoo, author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. Manjoo asserts that “truthiness has run amok in the modern media age” and examines how false facts percolate through the partisan echo chambers on both the left and the right.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: How [...]