International Women’s Day has a long and varied history. There have been times when celebrating and supporting women on a single globally-identified day has been an important tradition, helping to inspire great change, even when it has involved great risk to the women who are defiantly involved. Similarly, there are times, perhaps like today, when …
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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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 …
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 …
A glance at the headlines over the past week would imply major revelations in the study of the origins of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In short, the Wall Street Journal reported on 26 February that the US Department of Energy has adjusted its assessment on the likelihood of a ‘lab leak’, changing its …
Councils across the UK are pledging to plant trees in an effort to combat climate change and improve biodiversity. From Lanarkshire to Cornwall, and everywhere in between, trees have become a simple and obvious way for councils to show that they take the climate crisis seriously. They are backed by the government which, in 2020, …
“The Web of Meaning: integrating science and traditional wisdom to find our place in the universe”, by Jeremy Lent, ventures into the speculative territory between science and religion in search of the origins of consciousness and humanity’s fall from grace. Along the way Lent, described on the cover by Guardian columnist George Monbiot as “…one …
It’s not easy not knowing much. The more aware of how much you don’t know the more difficult things become as well. This renders decision making difficult, especially when it comes to matters of health. Life can be scary, and there are many pitfalls out there to prevent you from clinging on to it. I’m …
Religion is often criticised for being exploitative. Priests teach you to bow your head and accept the gods’ superiority, and in so doing, they soften you so as to obey the tyrant’s commands. But here and there, religions do challenge the gods. The Book of Job is one such case. It tells the story of …
The longest running scripted prime-time series in the US is The Simpsons, the animated sitcom which started its regular run in December 1989. Barring a writer’s strike here or a cast walkout there, The Simpsons has been in regular production since – and with the same principal cast (though as a feat it is arguably beaten …
