Twenty years after the worldwide ban on commercial whale fishing, Japan continues to kill whales under the pretense of `scientific research.’ In defiance of pleas for mercy from the rest of the world, the...
Read MoreThis is the weekly summary of the Humanist Network News (HNN). The Humanist Network News (HNN) is published every Wednesday via e-mail and on the Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS) Web site. This diary is a slightly...
Read MoreAaron Barlow writes in his ePMedia Journal article Peer Review and a Proposal for Revision that peer review (how academic articles and books are deemed worthy of publication) “is a cumbersome, time-consuming process that...
Read MoreThis is an extended version of a column appearing in the Dec. 2 edition of The Moscow Times (tomorrow). Cross posted at Empire Burlesque – Chris Floyd’s Blog The recent revelations about the virulent spread of death...
Read MoreWhen I was in parochial gradeschool, we learned all about the place that unbaptized babies go when they die: Limbo. Over the years we learned that the church sent any holy unbaptized soul to Limbo, kind of like that can where...
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