FIR against rationalist for questioning ‘miracle’ Man files complaint against Sanal Edamaruku who dismissed water dripping from Jesus statue as due to capillary action, saying he had made statements against the Church Jyoti Punwani Mumbai was the birthplace of the Indian Rationalist Association (IRA), founded in 1930 by Mumbaikar R P Paranjpe. Almost [...]
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Miracle Mongering Catholic Fascists Persecute Freethinker
Posted: April 22, 2012 in Catholic Fascists, Catholic Inquisition, Catholic Intolerance, Catholic Power, Catholic Priests, Censorship, Indian Rationalist Association, Religious scammers, Science, SuperstitionTags: capillary action, Catholic Church, divine flame, Giordano Bruno, Human Rights, Jesus, Mumbai, rationalist international, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Sanal, Sanal Edamaruku, Superstition, Television program, velankanni church
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SCIENCE NEWS
Posted: March 12, 2012 in Science, Science NewsTags: Dinosaur, Earth Sciences, Environment, Fossil, Galactic, heart vessels, Microraptor, old memories, Paleontology, Science, Torosaurus, Triceratops, Vertebrates, Yale University
Skulls from Triceratops (bottom) and Torosaurus (top) have revealed old and young individuals in both species, challenging the claim that one dinosaur is merely the younger version of the other. Full Story N. Longrich SN Today: Microraptor’s true blue colors The birdlike dinosaur had black, iridescent feathers that may have helped it attract mates.Read the [...]
Latest Science News
Posted: March 8, 2012 in Latest Science News, Science, Science NewsTags: Abell 520, Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope, darkmatter, ESA, European Space Agency, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, Latest Science News, NASA, News, San Francisco State University, Science, Science News
Latest Science News This composite image captured by the Hubble shows the positions of the dark matter core (blue), galaxies (orange) and gas (green) in the train wreck cluster, formed by colliding galaxies. Full Story NASA, ESA, CFHT, CXO, M.J. Jee/UC Davis, A. Mahdavi/San Francisco State Univ. SN Today: A dash of marrow helps kidney [...]
Are Floating Homes The Future?
Posted: February 6, 2012 in Environment, Future, Science, TechnologyTags: Environment, Floating city, Future, Jacque Fresco, Technology, United States, Venus Project, World
Floating Homes Are The Future Many people are aware of problems such as glacial melt and overpopulation, yet when it comes to how these will impact the way we live on this planet in the future, most people don’t know where to start. The fact is, issues such as these will cause many toxic problems [...]
What to expect from a Rick Perry administration: active suppression of science
Posted: November 6, 2011 in Anti-Science, Anti-Science Crazies, Republican Anti-Science, Science, Science NewsTags: Climate change, Climate Progress, Global warming, Mother Jones, Perry, Republicans, Rick Perry, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
What to expect from a Rick Perry administration: active suppression of science Regular readers know I am no fan of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry. The reasons for this are legion, including his stance on evolution and global warming. Now there’s evidence it’s even worse than I thought: The Guardian is reporting that Governor Rick [...]
The Lunatic Ravings Of Religious Right Crazy John Hagee
Posted: September 18, 2011 in Christian Zionism, Humanism, John Hagee, Religion, Religious Credulity, Religious Delusion, Religious Insanity, Religious Kooks, Religious Racketeers, Religious Right, Religious scammers, Right Wing Buffoons, Right Wing Culture Wars, Right Wing Zionist, Science, Secular Humanism, Secularism, ShysterTags: Buffoon, Crackpot John Hagee, God, Harry Potter, Hurricane Katrina, John Hagee, Religion Racket, Religious Buffoon, Religious Credulity, Religious Hustlers, Religious Kooks, Religious Racket, Secular humanism, Shyster, Television, Trinity Broadcasting Network
Harry Potter Teaching Kids Witchcraft Because America Bows To Pagan God by David Badash on September 16, 2011 Harry Potter is teaching kids witchcraft and America now bows to a Pagan god, warns Pastor John Hagee in his TV special, (apparently not from New York,) “Faith Under Fire.” And what is that “Pagan god?” Why, [...]
Ann Coulter – Basking In Her Own (Self-Confessed) Ignorance of Science
Posted: September 16, 2011 in American Right, Ann Coulter, Anti-Science, Anti-Science Crazies, Buffoon, Cretins, Science, Science Hatere, Science NewsTags: American Right, Ann Coulter, Anti-Science, Conspiracism, Darwinism, Evolution, Field Museum of Natural History, Fundamentalism, Michael Behe, On the Origin of Species, Religious Right, Science, Science Haters, Stephen Jay Gould
More Coulter Stupidity on Evolution by Ed Brayton Not content to show her complete ignorance of evolutionary biology once, Ann Coulter doubles down with yet another screed that would get her flunked by a competent high school science teacher. She begins with this unintentionally amusing statement: More people know the precepts of kabala than know [...]
Evolution is a Jewish Conspiracy
Posted: September 15, 2011 in Anti-Science Crazies, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Judeophobes, Religious Kooks, Science, Ted PikeTags: Anti-Science, Evolution, God and Science, God nuts, Judeophobes, Religious Crazies, Supremacism
Evolution is a Jewish conspiracy by PZ Myers The essay starts off stupidly enough. In 1867 Karl Marx dedicated DasKapital to Charles Darwin. Actually, no, he didn’t. It’s a fairly common lie in creationist circles, though, just like the others sprinkled throughout the story. Modern creation science is led by an array of top-flight Ph.D. [...]
Scientists find evidence for ‘chronesthesia,’ or mental time travel
Posted: December 24, 2010 in Brain, Consciousness, Mind, ScienceTags: Brain, Consciousness, Mind, Science, Time Travel
Researchers have found evidence for “chronesthesia,” which is the brain’s ability to be aware of the past and future, and to mentally travel in subjective time. They found that activity in different brain regions is related to chronesthetic states when a person thinks about the same content during the past, present, or future. http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-scientists-evidence-chronesthesia-mental.html
Ancient Humans Interbred With Us
Posted: December 24, 2010 in Ancient Humans, Human Evolution, Interbreeding, Origins, ScienceTags: Ancient Humans, Human Evolution, Interbreeding, Origins, Science
22 December 2010 Last updated at 18:03 GMT Ancient humans, dubbed ‘Denisovans’, interbred with us By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News Professor Chris Stringer: “It’s nothing short of sensational – we didn’t know how ancient people in China related to these other humans” Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from [...]
Cannibal Mouse: The MythBusters Episode You Never Saw
Posted: December 22, 2010 in Cannibal Mouse, Science, Science NewsTags: Biotech, Cannibal Mouse, Science, Science News, Weird Science
Co-host Adam Savage tells – in grizzly detail – why Discovery Channel banned a compelling installment of their show. Presented at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010. [Click for full version of Adam's talk] Credit: FORA.tv
Iron Man Suit for Future Soldiers
Posted: November 29, 2010 in Science, TechnologyTags: Iron Man, Militarism, Science, Technology
CNNTech reports on comic book fiction becoming reality! Raytheon is designing in real life what comic books and Hollywood have promised for years, a real life Iron Man-like suit. Raytheon is designing in real life what comic books and Hollywood have promised for years, a real life Iron Man-like suit. A lunchtime crowd is gathering [...]
