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Ex-Muslim Council refused charitable status
Maryam Namazie - Blog - 15 July 2011 44 Comments
Dear friends I wanted to thank you for your support of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. As you know we were in desperate need of financial help and are grateful for the donations of many...
New algorithm provides new insights into evolutionary exodus out of Africa
- - Physorg.com - 14 July 2011 42 Comments
Researchers have probed deeper into human evolution by developing an elegant new technique to analyse whole genomes from different populations. One key finding from the Wellcome Trust Sanger...
Neuroscientists uncover neural mechanisms of object recognition
- - medicalxpress.com - 14 July 2011 16 Comments
Certain brain injuries can cause people to lose the ability to visually recognize objects -- for example, confusing a harmonica for a cash register. Neuroscientists from Carnegie Mellon University...
New campaign: Report Dodgy Science
- - Sense About Science - 14 July 2011 7 Comments
An appeal from Tabitha Innocent, Communications Officer at the excellent UK charity, Sense About Science . Dear Friend I am writing to ask for your help over the next week to get a campaign...
Exhibit Unravels Mysteries of Ancient Chinese Temples Through History, Science
- - PBS - 14 July 2011 12 Comments
Watch the full episode . See more PBS NewsHour. Transcript JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight, bringing together art, history and science. Jeffrey Brown takes us through a...
Rick Perry betrays a great American principle
Richard Dawkins - Washington Post On Faith - 13 July 2011 110 Comments
This week's question from the Washington Post to the On Faith panel was: *Texas Governor, and possible GOP presidential candidate, Rick Perry has endorsed ‘The Response’ a prayer event scheduled...
Update on 11 July actions for International Day against Stoning
Maryam Namazie - e-mail - 13 July 2011 8 Comments
http://maryamnamazie.blogspot.com/2011/07/stoning-must-stop-join-international.html Here is a video of a discussion on Islam at How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival 2011 with the...
Austrian driver's religious headgear strains credulity
- - BBC News website - 13 July 2011 86 Comments
Thanks to Morgan , Ian and weavehole for the link An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear". Having...
Please Sign the Petition ! - End Murdoch's Criminal Empire
Avaaz team - avaaz.org - 12 July 2011 110 Comments
Hacking murdered children's phones, paying off police, destroying evidence of crimes, threatening politicians -- MPs are saying the Murdoch empire has "entered the criminal underworld" . But...
Why Dawkins's case against religion creaks at every joint
James MacKey - Irish Times - 12 July 2011 119 Comments
Thanks to beebub and Con Tigo for the link RITE AND REASON: A leap of faith is required to accept the argument offered by Richard Dawkins RICHARD DAWKINS sold himself very short indeed in...
A rare he-she butterfly is born in London's NHM
Jennifer Carpenter - bbc.co.uk - 12 July 2011 14 Comments
A half-male, half-female butterfly has hatched at London's Natural History Museum. A line down the insect's middle marks the division between its male side and its more colourful female side....
RNA reactor could have served as a precursor of life
Lisa Zyga - Physorg.com - 12 July 2011 13 Comments
In the RNA reactor, nucleotides accumulate in a narrow pore due to a temperature gradient. Due to bond formation and hybridization of RNA strands, weak information transmission can occur:...
Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
Ella Davies - BBC Nature - 11 July 2011 17 Comments
Thanks to Ryan for the link Excreted snails can survive Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists. Japanese white-eyes on the island of...
[UPDATE] Maintenance update moved to tomorrow Wednesday 13-July 5pm Central time
/Mike - - - 11 July 2011 29 Comments
The maintenance update will occur tomorrow which will give us time to undo the comment ordering change and rerun the test suite. There will be about 5 minutes of downtime tomorrow, Wednesday...
Statements and actions in Support of International Day against Stoning
Maryam Namazie - - - 11 July 2011 0 Comments
LATEST STATEMENTS AND ACTIONS, Updated11 July 2011 AUSTRALIA Statement from Russell Blackford, author and philosopher, Australia: It is unacceptable that the barbaric punishment of...
Virtual Bridge Allows Strangers in Mideast to Seem Less Strange
ETHAN BRONNER - The New York Times - 11 July 2011 26 Comments
Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times Hamze Awawde, left, a Palestinian student, uses a Facebook page to chat with Israelis. RAMALLAH, West Bank — Moad Arqoub, a Palestinian graduate...
Wichita Doctor Takes Up Fight for Abortions
A. G. SULZBERGER - The New York Times - 10 July 2011 155 Comments
Craig Hacker for The New York Times Dr. Mila Means, right, at a rally with Kari Ann Rinker of the National Organization for Women. WICHITA, Kan. — Not long ago, Dr. Mila Means, the physician...
Tunisian Secularists Fight Back
David E. Miller - The Media Line - 10 July 2011 30 Comments
Thanks to weavehole for the link With Islamic fundamentalists flexing their muscles, secularists speak up Fearing the gradual religious takeover of a country widely considered the most...
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