1. Who Started the War on Christmas?
(Religion/Atheism)

...uo; In his 1995 book, Alien Nation, Brimelow argued that the influx of “weird aliens with dubious habits” from developing nations was eroding America’s white Christian “ethnic...

2. How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
(Science/General)

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. On the

3. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

... to helplessly organize their lives around ancient works of religious fiction must explain why so many inhabitants of other First World societies apparently lack such a gene. The level of atheism thro...

4. Novel bacterial species found trapped in Greenland's ice
(Science/General)

...ganism's ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for studying how life, in general, can survive in a variet...

5. Make Way for Superfrog
(Science/General)

... are meant for fighting. They could allow a frog's feet "to get a better grip on whatever rocky habitat they might be in," he says.   Reposted from : http://sciencenow.sciencemag.o...

6. Good people doing evil things
(Religion/General)

...ifferent light on the story of Jesus, as did Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. But bible enthusiasts have a habit of picking and choosing the bits that suit them. They decide when to be literal and when ...

7. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ing-gathering to raising crops and domesticating animals, the move led to dietary changes and to settled habitats in specific regions. Combined, they ignited a surge in human numbers. Far from slowing...

8. Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie
(Good news/All)

...d his colleagues outfitted robots with light sensors, rings of blue light, and wheels and placed them in habitats furnished with glowing “food sources” and patches of “poison” ...

9. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...re likely to think that other people ought to be vegetarians, and are more likely to imbue their dietary habits with other virtues, like believing that meat avoidance makes people less aggressive and ...

10. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...Sheldrake writes in his 1981 book A New Science of Life. “The regularities of nature are therefore habitual. Things are as they are because they were as they were.” Morphic resonance, say...