Science

Robert Sapolsky, renowned neurobiologist, explains how we are not as unique in the animal kingdom as we like to think. Begin at...

Come on guys, let's show our love for science and poetry. Let's keep the creative juices flowing. Here's my start on...

After reading works of Ayn Rand and Objectivism (Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Objectivist Ethics, Virtue of Selfishness), I think I now understand why Rand’s philosophy has such a cult following. To begin with, I found out that Objectivism is just pure philosophy, it’s not science. There is no evidence to support its claims and therefore it is not scientifically justifiable. It claims to be committed to reason, but without science and evidence to back up its claims, it’s just another belief system — just like any other cult or religion.

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, a singularity - you can't predict its fate Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... Space-time became a growing estate.

We live in a time rendered uninterested and detached by familiarity. Ignoring the marvels that can be plainly found in nature, we turn to superstitions that we think will recover the excitement we had as children, cowering under the bed sheets from monsters that are deterred only by cloth blankets.

Today's headline article is Gordon Brown's secularist Labour party. There is hope after all! Also check out two interviews about two new books out now - an expose on Evangelicals and a book about God's Brain. On a lighter note: ZOMG 3D BIBLE MOVIE

Today is International Women's Day! In addition to the usual links, we have some great articles discussing women fighting for equality and religious reform,women at CERN (Angels and Demons stuff, people!), and an opinion piece about ending maternal deaths. We also have an essay from Christopher Hitchen's brother about his faith and an expose about Scientology.

Today's FF links include a presidential endorsement, discrimination against gays, the Oscars, AI, sex and gay prostitution, and evolution. Same old, same old?

Why are we attracted to certain body types and scents?