March 7, 2023

Adam the Ape Teaches Empathy for All Beings Peter Bjork TheHumanist.com

Adam the Ape by Wolfgang Wambach is an exciting adventure novel with hand-drawn illustrations for readers eight to fourteen years old. It follows a boy named Kenny who is unable to verbally speak, so he uses sign language to communicate. Due to his struggles to connect with humans, Kenny is shocked when he meets Adam,

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Humanist Profile: Helen M. Caldicott, Physician and Peace Advocate Peter Bjork TheHumanist.com

This month, the American Humanist Association (AHA) is celebrating Women’s History Month through the lens of “Atheist World Builders, Women, and Matrilineal Legacy” by uplifting the stories of humanist and atheist women who’ve made a positive impact on the world. Today, we highlight Dr. Helen Caldicott, a physician, peace advocate, and humanist whose lifelong anti-nuclear

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From the archive: Motivated distortion of personal memory for trauma Mark Pendergrast The Skeptic

This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 17, Issue 4, from 2006. What I want to do is explain how people can come to believe in extremely traumatic events that never happened. It is quite clear that this does happen in the case of alien abductees, or in the cases of medical virgins who

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Jim Davies — Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You Skeptic Skeptic

Read More Skeptic Shermer and Davies discuss: • an operational definition of the “good life” or “happiness” or “well being” • utilitarianism vs. deontology vs. virtue ethics • effective altruism • marriage and children • objective moral values • Do we have a moral obligation to help those who cannot help themselves? • Does America

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Why Nationalism Is Hostile to America Yaron Brook & Elan Journo Skeptic

Read More Skeptic America is being torn apart. Amid growing strife, many people are experiencing angst concerning the future of this country, a country once renowned for its exuberant spirit of discovery, progress, liberty. From across the increasingly tribal political landscape, one can observe attacks on the ideas that fueled America’s spectacular rise: reason, individualism,

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Atheist Republic News Summary: Mysterious Serial Poisonings of Schoolgir… P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic Mysterious Serial Poisonings of Schoolgirls Haunts Iran https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/mysterious-serial-poisonings-schoolgirls-haunts-iran Location: Iran Hundreds of schoolgirls in Iran have been hospitalized since November 2022 after seemingly being poisoned. The victims, mostly girls, experienced symptoms of nausea, headaches, difficulty breathing, coughing, and heart palpitations. Some reports suggest that radical Shia fundamentalists are responsible for the

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