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I'm sure most of you already know this, but Stephen Hawking died. He might have not been that relevant in the actual scientific field of late, but he is one of the most recognizable scientists of the last 100 years and had a great secondary career as a science communicator. I still have The...

To be honest it's pretty much hear say at this moment, but one can always hope. Personally I think Trump won't say this in public (well, twitter). It's not like he fears Scientologists, but I bet that the christian lobby will lean on him hard so not to open the door for removing the tax exempt...

..., with no surprise to anyone, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves" to Weiss, Barish and Thorne. It's neat and all but for the last two years there hasn't been any real suspense with who gets the big N. Oh well. Though apart from proving...

Sometimes, just sometimes, justice is served at least a little bit. But I can't help to wonder if the real mistake she did was not to cloak her scam in a religious garb? SOURCE :http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-28/disgraced-wellness-blogger-belle-gibson-fined/8995500

Granted this study is a bit old, originally from the Volume 83 Number 2 (July 2014) issue of The News and Information Publication of The Society of Rheology. But it has been made current by it's winning the (Ig)Nobel prize for physics in 14th of September this year...

Fossil footprints challenge established theories of human evolution This must mean evolution is completely false. Right? RIGHT? But seriously: I always have hard time with these "Huge reveal" kinda finds, partly because I don't have the expertise to analyze it in context. I suppose I'll just...

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40741545 Wouldn't that be grand? To find a moon from a different system than ours? Too bad the journalists are being too hopeful again, the actual paper is a bit more cautious: Then again I do think that the first confirmed exomoon is just...

Short answer: Yes. (Waiting for theist screams to die out). As I was weeding my carrots and listening Seth Andrews' (The Thinking Atheist, whatever he might say) podcast about punching Nazis an idea came to me; In a secular world view religion should have no special treatment. Freedom of...

I don't know how I have missed this before, but there is a Youtube channel that follows the events of The Great War (World War 1) in real time -100 years. As in this week they'll take a look at events of the first week on June 1917. I've binged through the first few months in the last few days...

Is it just me or is this in equal parts exiting and terrifying? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/23/organisms-created-with-synthetic-dna-pave-way-for-new-entirely-new-life-forms?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3 Study: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/6/1317.abstract

Well actually it was found 6 years ago, but sometimes you come across news that just make you smile :). A 110 million old creature which was preserved not only as bones or flattened fossil, but 3D. As a side note the fact this is a new species previously unknown to science just shows that we...

I've seen this kind of rhetoric specially from our friends across the pond, but also locally. That we should respect all religions. I have an answer for my own question though: Personally I think one should judge any ideology, religions included, on it's merits. Some people seem to have a...

And a agreeable New Year. Honestly I wonder about the people who get their panties in a twist because someone wishes them a merry Christmas (because it has religion in it) or happy holidays (because it doesn't have religion in it). I wonder if those things are mainly a US thing? I think I live...

I'm not sure if this is the right section for this, mainly because I didn't get much sleep last night while reading these, but since it is pretty sciency and mathy, although in a XKDC kind of way, I'll just leave this link here. Enjoy. XKCD What If

Since the topic came up in the death penalty discussion I'm wondering what LoR members think about it. Personally I'm for legal euthanasia as I define it (as some would and do define even the holocaust as "euthanasia"); the medical help for self termination of ones life. I'm much for peoples...

We've all seen the discussions about the historicity of Jesus I presume, but today I bumped into a short text about the historicity of Muhammad. It's in finnish so I won't link it here but basically the case looks somewhat similar to that of Jesus (we don't have contemporary texts or witnesses...

Give them a few million years and they'll be taking over. Sauce

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I know it's supposed to be uncivil to laugh to anothers bad fortune, but since this time It's 100% self made I don't really care Not that surpricing in the light of Doctor Hovinds defence in his previous trial, ie It's Gods money so US goverment has no case. I'm not expecting that the good...