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Reason/Humanism Collaborative MegaSite

Posted by: RB on: January 17, 2009

Greetings Advocates of Reason and Humanism,
Are you interested in joining an ambitious international community of advocates for reason and humanism who are working to create a major independent media voice?
I and a growing group of freethinkers are working to expand our small collaborative website, www.theedger.org (name to change), into a broadbased collaborative site. The primary [...]

Why ya going to the airport….Flyyyying somewhere?

Posted by: RB on: December 15, 2008

“How’d ya guess?”
“Well, first I saw your luggage and then when I saw the plane tickets I kind of put two and two together.”

I recently discovered a great blog on ScienceBlogs entitled Developing Intelligence. Produced by University of Colarado at Boulder Cognitive Neuroscience graduate student, Chris Chatham, Developing Intelligence profiles fascinating current Cognitive Science research on mindfulness meditation and other means of training attention. Specifically, Chatham discusses demonstrated effects of mental training techniques on attention, meta-cognition and executive [...]

Where everybody knows your name…

Posted by: RB on: June 13, 2008

The hit TV show Cheers may be long gone but its legacy lives on in Korea, where there are at least a handful of Cheers bars. A new chum of mine in Seoul, Nick, who is a talented saxaphonist, had the fun idea of playing the Cheers theme song in front of the Cheers bar [...]

The trip to and first day in Korea

Posted by: RB on: May 23, 2008

Hey all,
I’m now in Seoul. This is a post on my trip to and first day in Korea. It’s been a very interesting day or two.
Tuesday (Toronto time): I leave my home, which is located just outside of Toronto, at 840 PM. I hang around Toronto’s Pearson International Airport for a bit before boarding my [...]

Off to Korea

Posted by: RB on: May 20, 2008

Greetings all,
I’ll not be posting over the next 2 days or so as I’m about to fly off to Korea for what is expected to be a 1 or 2 year stay.
Since I usually post just about everyday, I figured I’d leave a quick note about this absence so people don’t start suspecting that Scientology’s [...]

Over 85.5 million have watched it. 157,000 text comments have been left. It is the Evolution of Dance.
 

Death of the Ideal Scientologist, Konrad Aigner

Posted by: RB on: May 12, 2008

Alongside a well-placed ad from the Cult of Scientology encouraging viewers to “Get the facts” is an article by John Brown entitled The Ideal Scientologist: Konrad Aigner. This must-read story summarizes the life and death in Scientology of Konrad Aigner.
Aigner joined the cult in 1976, after leaving his family’s German farm to take up employment [...]

A London protester who goes by the pseudonym “Epic Nose Guy” was handed a Court Summons yesterday at Operation: FairGameStop in London for not giving up his right to accurately refer to the Cult of Scientology as a cult. ENG was told by an officer to discontinue displaying his sign and was given 30 minutes [...]

Outstanding YouTubery

Posted by: RB on: May 9, 2008


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