I’d love to be able to go totally wireless, but the data speed I get is simply way too slow when compared with a wire to the house … or is it? Apparently some researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved a wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s over a distance of one kilometre. Yikes, that is a new world record. How? Apparently they used a …Click to read more…
HUMANIST CRISIS RESPONSE: Supporting relief efforts after massive tornado in Oklahoma
HUMANIST CRISIS RESPONSE: Supporting relief efforts after massive tornado in Oklahoma At 3:01 pm CT on May 20, a massive …Click to read more…
7 Tools for Thinking – Daniel Dennett
Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America’s foremost thinkers, and also one of the four horsemen (In …Click to read more…
Religious Conversion: How does it trick you and hook into human minds?
Many people inherit their religion, they simply absorb the belief of their parents and fall in line with the behaviour laid down …Click to read more…
The judgement of a God upon us … it explains (insert bad event of your choice here)
Glance into the Old Testament within the bible and you find some rather weird rules, for example … Bad haircuts …Click to read more…
Message from Imad: “In Mickey Mouse we Trust”
Yesterday was International Imad day … and so today we have a message of thanks from Imad. Maryam Namazie has …Click to read more…
Today 15 May is International Imad Day
22 year old Imad Iddine Habib founded the Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco. That is a first, a public atheist organisation in …Click to read more…
“Atheist Muslim” – Is that as meaningless as “meat-eating vegetarian”?
Ali A. Rizvi, the Pakistani-Canadian writer, physician, and musician who resides in Toronto, has been writing in the HuffPo once …Click to read more…
A real exam you really want to be proud to fail
In the “You have just got to be fracking kidding me” category, we have the following exam, it was circulated …Click to read more…
400 ppm …. yikes!
400 ppm is an artificial milestone of course, and yet perhaps also a significant one. We are apparently travelled back in time to the Pliocene, a time roughly 3 …Click to read more…
Pat Robertson, Urges Viewers to Beware False Prophets … such as himself.
If you are ever tempted to think, “Nah, nobody could be that crazy“, then it is time for you to …Click to read more…
Beware …Correlation is not enough
Correlation does not imply causation Did you know that tomatoes are extremely deadly, and that this is a well-establish fact? …Click to read more…
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