Visited the new Connecticut Science Center

It’s a fine new science museum in Hartford, CT. We visited yesterday and had a pretty good time. It’s unique in that it’s a very “urban” museum. By this I mean it’s vertical. It’s like a skyscraper with a central bank of glass elevators. Each floor houses 1 or two fairly large exhibit rooms [...]

Carl Sagan: A Universe Not Made For Us

There is no better Carl Sagan. Everyone should be given the gift of this amazing monologue. We should all be so gifted with writing of such perfect clarity and eternal relevance.

The Enemies of Reason

Part 1 of Richard Dawkins’ wonderful television program:

Please Stop Buying Organic Food!

Pretty much everything you think about so-called “organic” food (all food is chemically organic) is wrong.  Organically grown food is nutritionally identical to food produced by conventional farming.  Why would you willingly pay more for designer food that is identical to normal food?

The answer, of course, is marketing.  You have been told for [...]

Higher Intelligence is Associated with Atheism and Liberal Political Ideology

Once again, I’m just the messenger here… but in a nutshell…

The more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to be a liberal, and an atheist.  Oh, and you are also more likely to be faithful to your wife.  And I do mean “wife” and not “spouse”, as this part is only [...]

Amazing Marble Machine

The Ooine tag-line claims that we enjoy clever automata. We are sure that many of you have wondered about that. Well wonder no longer!

Here, for your pleasure, is a fine example of a clever automaton. You’re welcome.

Symphony of Science – Popularist Scientists set to Music

The world needs more of this.  I’m not sure what else to say, really.  We just need more.

The masses need to know that there is little need to believe in magic today.  Some people claim to be “spiritual” simply as an antidote to our materialistic world, and that is perfectly fine.  But you [...]

Fun with Religion – Who’s with me?

Get ready to LOL.

Which is the easier path?

Bass Ackwards

The religious enjoy asking you to prove a negative

Religion at work through the ages

A child is no more [...]

High Fructose Corn Syrup is not evil!

Finally the truth starts to emerge.  The masses are easily scared and difficult to nudge off their trajectory of mis-belief.  Here’s one person who woke up and decided to share the tale with her audience.

From SparkPeople.com…

If you had asked me five years ago if I thought there was something unique about high [...]

Thank God for Atheists. Wait! What?

I stumbled across a lot of excellent news from USA Today, and in particular, the American Religious Identification Survey 2008.

Atheists and the other unaffiliated make up 15% of the American population.  That’s 34 million of us.  And now for the really good news.  Atheists are the fastest growing “religious” group in America.  Finally [...]

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