Posted by RB on August 30, 2008 · 1 Comment
In what is just my second post in a long time, I’m making a point of encouraging everyone to check out The Edger. The Edger is a new and extremely well-produced secularism and atheism activism website. I had the privilege of helping to develop this site, and the people commandeering the operation are all very talented … Read more
Posted by RB on July 11, 2008 · 3 Comments
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 … Read more
Filed under Other · Tagged with attention, blogs, Chris Chatham, cognitive function, cognitive science, executive function, intelligence, Meditation, meta-cognition, mindfulness-, Psychology, ScienceBlogs, Yuko Munakata
Posted by RB on May 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment
This message is to Scientology dissidents of Battle Creek, Michigan. Where were you yesterday!? I just checked out Ed Brayton’s popular ScienceBlogs blog Dispatches from the Culture Wars, where I read that the Battle Creek protest was effectively a no-show. Aside from Ed, there was one other person there – who may well have been there in … Read more
Filed under Religion, Scientology · Tagged with Anonymous, Battle Creek, blogs, Church of Scientology, cult, cult of scientology, Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Ed Brayton, Fair Game, May 10, media, Operation: FairGameStop, protest, Religion, ScienceBlogs, Scientology, Seed Magazine
Posted by RB on April 25, 2008 · 14 Comments
I was recently prevented from expressing dissent on a pro-Expelled blog. I know that I am not the first person to have been expelled for disagreeing with IDists, and will surely not the be last. PZ Myers of Pharyngula has been banned from commenting on a number of pro-ID blogs (e.g., Uncommon Dissent) and was prevented … Read more
Filed under Anti-Science and Pseudoscience, Atheism, Evolution, Free Speech and Censorship, Intelligent Design and Creationism, Religion, Science · Tagged with Anti-Science and Pseudoscience, Ben Stein, Blake Stacy, blogs, Censorship, Christianity, Creationism, Evolution, Expelled, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Free Speech, ID, Intelligent Design and Creationism, Larry Moran, Laurence Moran, media, Pharyngula, pseudo-science, PZ Myers, Religion, Sandwalk, Science, Science After Sunclipse
Posted by RB on March 27, 2008 · 1 Comment
Everyone check out The FAIL Blog. I actually kind of want one of the T-Shirts they sell…
Posted by RB on February 14, 2008 · 2 Comments
In 90 days I will still most likely find it to have been unjustifiably inconsiderate to, as an art project, create a blog entitled 90DayJane in which a person calling herself Jane claims that she plans on committing suicide in 90 days. While I don’t think this Jane is a bad person, this was surely a … Read more
Filed under Atheism, Ethics & Morality, Society & Culture · Tagged with 90 Day Jane, blogs, commercialism, Culture, depression, individualism, Internet, isolation, Life, mental health, society, suicide, wellness
Posted by RB on February 4, 2008 · 5 Comments
Over the past few days Anatoly Venovcev, Tyler Handley and I have been working hard to spread the word about Wilfrid Laurier University Student Union’s decision to deny group status to Venovcev, Handley et al’s Laurier Freethought Association. Click here for the full story. The outpouring of support from the blogosphere has been fantastic! Here … Read more
Filed under Atheism, Politics, Religion, Society & Culture · Tagged with Anatoly Venovcev, blogs, canadian cynic, Dispatches from the Culture Wars, education, freethought, Hemant Mehta, Laurence Moran, Laurier Freethought Association, Pharyngula, protest, Richard Dawkins, Sandwalk, Secularism, students, the friendly atheist, tolerance, Tyler Handley, university, university politics, Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University
Posted by RB on February 3, 2008 · 7 Comments
I just subjected The Frame Problem to The Blog Readability Test, which supposedly assesses the level of education required to understand a given blog. The site provides no information on how it assesses blog readability. Nor does it display its rating scale. But it did rate TFP as being at the genius level, so I’m … Read more
Posted by RB on January 21, 2008 · 8 Comments
Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist, best known for having sold his soul on eBay, has opened discussion on the topic of having a MAJOR atheist/nontheist/secularist/humanist/freethinker conference in 2010. The conference would bring people from across the continent together to meet, network, exchange ideas, establish new directions and concerns for secular activism, and show Washington, the … Read more
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Posted by RB on January 20, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Frame Problem was honoured today by SocialRank.com, a ranker of blogs and blog entries. SocialRank.com‘s atheist blog tracker ChallengeReligion.com has recognized “Freedom of expression doesn’t mean the right to offend”; Dutch government bracing self for violent Muslim protest to anti-Muslim film as the #1 atheist blog post for January 20, 2008.
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