Science

Starting from a handful of people who (figuratively) killed sacred cows at (relatively) civilized Starbucks meetups, the Filipino Freethinkers have evolved...

My name is Jay Ignacio, an atheist who used to be a recording artist with Sony Music back in 1996. I...

Considering the suspected link between religious experience and conditions affecting the temporal lobe - an area of the brain with an important role in regulating hearing - I would like to be so bold as to suggest that maybe finding out the truths about our universe has more to do with listening than it does with looking.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, researchers from Northwestern Medicine have discovered that the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted infection of Gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, has taken up human DNA and incorporated it into its own genome.

This past Thursday, February 3, Ryan Tani and Garrick Bercero of the Filipino Freethinkers were invited to lecture at the De La Salle University in Manila. Tani discussed the problem of evil and how it is inconsistent with the Christian God while Bercero spoke about how a godless morality is possible.

While I don’t mind people openly stating their opposition for the RH Bill, it strikes a raw nerve in me when these people attempt to prove their point by distorting data, if not fear-mongering, and strawman attacks.

So what is Qi (Chi)? Is it a mysterious force used to channel your inner strength into fireballs and lasers? Is it a form of energy that can be manipulated to bring good fortune? Spiritual strength used to duel to the death? Take a little Chinese lesson in the history and evolution of Qi throughout the centuries...

It all started when a newspaper in Minnesota published an article informing the public that they had to say hello to...

…a stunning result—so stunning that it seems rather dubious. The claim posited here is that dilute quantities of DNA can somehow emit “DNA waves” via its natural electromagnetic field and that this signal mimics the exact DNA sequence of the source in water.