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    Scientists discover beliefs can be just as powerful as nicotine - Virginia Tech [video, 1 min.]
    Alan watts-reconsider the meaning of "I" [video, 2 min.]
    The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress by Adam Rogers
    Parasitic Wasps Infected with Mind-Controlling Viruses by Carl Zimmer

    Christian Homeschoolers Sell Daughter at a Discount Because She's 'Damaged' by Molestation [video, 4 min.]

    Never trust the laws of science [video, 14 sec.]
    Why the right hates American history by Thom Hartmann
    Benjamin Netanyahu Has Been Lying to Americans For 20 Years by Zaid Jilani

    Why I Hate Religion and Jesus Is a Made Up Thing [video, 4 min.]

    How The Armenian Genocide Lost Its Place In History [video, 32 min.]
    9 Things You Think You Know About Jesus That Are Probably Wrong by Valerie Tarico
    Why, to many critics, Mother Teresa is still no saint by Adam Taylor

    Daniel Dennett on intuition pumps: Thinking is hard [video, 19 min.]
    Dr. Anthony B. Pinn speaking at Atheists United [video, 1 hr., 10 min.]
    Climate deniers under the microscope: Scandal spawns new push to uncover fossil fuel ties by Lindsay Abrams
    From Torture to Drones: How the US Gave Itself a Global Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card by Alfred McCoy

    Funny ISIS propaganda [video, 8 min.]

    Seeing Things [video, 20 min.]
    Why We Must Offend Religion More by Jeffrey Taylor
    Don't Force Your Religious Opinions on Your Children by Richard Dawkins

    Maher Destroys Idiot on Climate Change: What Do You Have Against Listening to Scientists? [video, 6 min.]

    Birdman Spoof - Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell | 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards [video, 4 min.]
    The Junk Science and Bad Faith Behind Colorado's IUD Controversy by Valerie Tarico
    The South's true face of hate: Oozing nonsense from demented and influential corners of religious right by Paul Rosenberg

    Slavery in the Bible [video, 9 min.]
    Three Friends, One Jihadi | The New York Times [video, 10 min.]
    When Americans Lynched Mexicans by William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb
    The Wrong Objections to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Sean Carroll

    The Evolution of Jesus in the Bible [video, 11 min.]

    Atheists of Color [video, 15 min.]
    How the CIA gets away with it: Our democracy is their real enemy by Scott Horton
    5 Valiant GOP Efforts to Make Americans As Dumb As Possible by Amanda Marcotte

    Marketing Jesus [video, 3 min.]

    TED | For these women, reading is a daring act [video, 5 min.]
    Sex redefined by Claire Ainsworth
    My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer by Oliver Sacks

    Brian Cox: Is Time Travel Possible? [video, 4 min.]
    TED | Richard Dawkins: Why the universe seems so strange (2007) [video, 23 min.]
    What ISIS Really Wants by Graeme Wood
    Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time? by Natalie Wolchover

    Christopher Hitchens Beautiful Tribute [video, 10 min.]

    Saudi Preacher Bandar Al-Khaybari Demonstrates: The Earth Does Not Revolve around Itself [video, 2 min.]
    The 'paleo diet' is pseudoscience: This is what our ancestral menu really looked like from The Conversation
    Do Christians Actually Believe What They Claim to Believe? by Southern Skeptic

    Why is Psychology Silent When it Comes to Atheism? - Melanie Brewster - Skepticon 7 [video, 52 min.]

    Ex Muslim Voices: Faith to Faithless [video, 5 min.]
    Pot Could Save Your Life: 4 Ways Cannabis is Good for Your Brain by Dana Larsen
    The Christian Right Is Quite Scary, But the GOP's Economic Agenda Is America's Big Nightmare by Lynn Stuart Parramore

    An Astronaut's View of Earth [video, 4 min.]
    The Domestic Spying Program You Haven't Heard of [video, 7 min.]
    Telling the Truth About Religious Violence by Donald Kaul
    Digital Reality: A Conversation with Neil Gershenfeld by Neil Gershenfeld

    Historicity of Jesus with Dr Richard Carrier [video, 2 hr., 11 min.]

    The Christian Voices Behind LGBT Oppression [video, 3 min.]
    Where the Bible really stands on slavery by Valerie Tarico
    For a Non-Ideal Metaphysics by Justin Erik Halldór Smith

    Marijuana Intoxication and Driving [video, 4 min.]

    Heaven - Do You Qualify? [video, 6 min.]
    Democrats: Do not help Republicans carry out their sneaky anti-Social Security agenda by Ryan Cooper
    Lee Smolin and the status of modern physics by Joe Boswell

    Lupercalia [video, 4 min.]
    The Arabic Golden Age [video, 13 min.]
    The right's sinister plot to destroy Social Security, revealed by Thom Hartmann
    5 Right-Wing Freak-Outs Over the President's Completely Accurate Comments on Christianity by Amanda Marcotte

    You are a Simulation & Physics Can Prove It: George Smoot at TEDxSalford [video, 19 min.]

    The Collected Wisdom of Pat Robertson [video, 1 min.]
    Violent Muslims — Just A Few Bad Apples? by Conor Lynch
    6 Ways Your Tech Is Spying on You -- and How You Can Fight Back by Alex Hern

    Voice of Reason: Richard Dawkins - The problem with religion [video, 4 min.]

    Egyptian TV Host Ibrahim Issa: Nobody Dares to Admit That ISIS Crimes Are Based on Islamic Sources [video, 4 min.]
    Leaked Files Reveal New Bankster Scam by The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program
    Is There Something Uncanny About Machines That Can Think? by Tania Lombrozo

    A. Whitney Brown - Religion [video, 7 min.]
    Good Without God: Are We Missing the Bigger Picture? [video, 4 min.]
    Blaspheme or else… by Hector Avalos
    The Changing Idea of 'Knowledge' by Tara Kaushai

    Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics, Part 8: Historical Jesus [video, 17 min.]

    Did The Past Really Happen? [video, 12 min.]
    Activist Publishes Book of Hate Mail From Bible Believing Christians, Believers Respond by - You Guessed It by Valerie Tarico
    Think Islamists are the only religious terrorists? Meet some famous killers for Christ by David Ferguson

    Real Time with Bill Maher: Johann Hari on The War on Drugs (HBO) [video, 8 min.]

    Launching Small Rockets to Space from Jets [video, 2:31 min.]
    Luciano Floridi on the Philosophy of Information an interview with Luciano Floridi
    Breakthrough DNA Editor Borne of Bacteria by Carl Zimmer

    The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn [video, 20 min.]
    Stephen Fry: What makes something right or wrong? [video, 3 min.]
    The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart from medium.com
    This is the charred body of Jesse Washington and whites from Waco — not ISIS — burned him alive by Bill Moyers

    Sam Harris On Charlie Hebdo [video, 14 min.] must watch

    Riding Light [video, 45 min.]
    Why Are You Still A Christian After Reading This? (Thorough) by Ben A
    Humans are wired for prejudice, research shows — but they don't have to be by Caitlin Millett

    Voice of Reason: Christopher Hitchens - The conversation worth having [video, 6 min.]

    Mr. Deity and the Atheist (Richard Dawkins) [video, 9 min.]
    Godless Parents Are Doing a Better Job by Tracy Moore
    No, climate models aren't exaggerating global warming by Puneet Kollipara

    Pastafarians at Skepticon 7 [video, 2 min.]
    Man in his arrogance - A Great Speech By Carl Sagan [video, 4 min.]
    The stubborn myth of the Christian country: Why the U.S. has always been "one nation, under gods" by Laura Miller
    "People could die and that's OK": Why the right's free-market health philosophy is ludicrous by Heather Digby Parton

    A Story About Race - Neil deGrasse Tyson [video, 12 min.]

    Onism: The Awareness of How Little of the World You'll Experience [video, 3 min.]
    Species Extinctions, Human Chronic Disease on the Rise, as Climate Disruption Mounts by Dahr Jamail
    Why the American Founding Fathers Would Have Hated the Anti-Vaccination Movement by Steven Johnson

    Standing on the Shoulders of Giants [video, 17 min.]

    Voice of Reason: Sam Harris - The morality of God [video, 4 min.]
    The Right-Wing Christians Who Think 'American Sniper' Embodies Christian Values by Gary Legum
    Can Science Tell Us What Beauty Is? by Gayil Nalls

    Neil deGrasse Tyson Describes The Problem With American Currency [video, 7 min.]
    The Great Debate: Climate Change - Surviving The Future [video, Part 1, Part 2]
    10 reasons Christian heaven would actually be hell by Valerie Tarico
    Football: An American tragedy by James A. Holstein, Richard S. Jones and George E. Koonce Jr.

    Neil deGrasse Tyson on God [video, 5 min.]

    How Small Is An Atom? [video, 5 min.]
    250 Reasons to Reject Christianity by Michael Runyan
    After Four Decades With Roe, US Women Still Need Abortion Access and So Much More by Andrea Flynn and Shulie Eisen

    Stephen Fry on God [video, 2 min.]

    Tesla P85D Insane Mode Launch Reactions Compilation - Clean Version [video, 3 min.]
    Famed biologist: Religion 'is dragging us down' and must be eliminated 'for the sake of human progress' by Hannah Osborne
    10 Facts That Will Blow Right-Wingers' Minds by Richard Riis
    Why free speech is fundamental by Stephen Pinker
    A Graphene Discoverer Speculates on the Future of Computing by Katia Moskvitch

    The Enemies of Reason [video, 1 hr., 36 min.]
    Synth Britannia [video, 1 hr., 28 min.]
    Global Warming Revisited: Reality vs Republican Theology by Lawrence Davidson
    Chomsky Blasts 'American Sniper' and the Media that Glorifies It by Janet Alon

    The Thinking Atheist Ryan Bell: A Year Without God [audio, 1 hr., 11 min.]

    Masturbation = Dead Soldiers (Real Christian Anti-Masturbation Video) [video, 4 min.]
    The Disneyland outbreak is the anti-vax tipping point by Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Snowpocalypse: How Global Warming Creates Gargantuan Blizzards by Cliff Weathers

    Biology of Religiosity [video, 3 min.]

    The Internet is on fire | Mikko Hypponen | TEDxBrussels [video, 19 min.]
    The 30,000 futures of the brain by Adam J Calhoun
    I'm an atheist, but I have no interest in joining your 'movement' by Jaya Saxena

    Christopher Hitchens' epic final word/conclusion [video, 4 min.]
    The Young Turks' exclusive video of protesters being arrested at Supreme Court [video, 6 min.]
    Mourning Our Planet: Climate Scientists Share Their Grieving Process by Dahr Jamail
    I do not care about your baby by Jonathan Naymark

    10 Women Christian Men Shouldn't Marry [video, 8 min.]

    Graham Hancock questions Richard Dawkins on psychedelics and challenging his world view [video, 5 min.]
    These are the 12 worst ideas religion has unleashed on the world by Valerie Tarico
    Joni Ernst's family received nearly half a million dollars in federal farm subsidies by Like Brinkler

    The 5 Most Important Molecules in Your Body [video, 8 min.]

    A Bad Lip Reading - "NFL 2015" [video, 4 min.]
    A Shocking Number of Americans Under 30 Have No Religion — This Country Is Going to Change by Amelia Thomson-Deveaux
    Who Was the Marquis de Sade? by Tony Perrottet

    Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition [video, 56 min.]
    Former Member of Faith-Healing Church Tells All [video, 10 min.]
    135 years of global warming in one terrifying animation by Zach Epstein
    Why can't the world's greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? by Oliver Burkeman
    Former Member of Faith-Healing Church Tells All [video, 10 min.]

    The History Of The Devil [video, 52 min.]
    Religious terrorism: Examples of zealotry abound by Wanda LaCroix
    Four Ways Republicans Are Trying to Take Us Back to the Jim Crow Era by The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program

    Atheists Almost Left Out Of The Civil Rights Act [video, 6 min.]

    Richard Feynman talks about light [video, 6 min.]
    8 Things Your Pastor Will Never Tell You About the Bible by Richard Hagenston
    Can we test for parallel worlds? from Cosmos magazine
    Why the GOP's war on Social Security hurts basically everyone but rich white guys by Sean McElwee

    Challenging Christianity - Matt Dillahunty - Skepticon 7 [video, 45 min.]

    What Is Life? Is Death Real? [video, 6 min.]
    AI Has Arrived, and That Really Worries the World's Brightest Minds by Robert McMillan
    Physics: Superstitions and Allegories? by Brian Appleyard
    Real Time with Bill Maher: Self Censorship vs. Free Speech, 16 Jan., 2015 (HBO) [video, 5 min.]

    Bill Nye to Climate Change Deniers: You Can't Ignore Facts Forever [video, 5 min.]
    5 Charts That Explain 2014's Record-Smashing Heat by Jeremy Schulman
    Here's a Reminder That Murderous, Radical Christians Still Exist by Joshua De Leon

    Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains "the Meaning of Life" to a 6 -Year-Old Boy [video, 6 min.]

    Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance [video, 9 min.]
    How Religion Can Let Loose Humanity's Most Violent Impulses by Valerie Tarico
    Unreal Islam by Ali Minai

    Pat Condell: Nothing to do with Islam [video, 5 min.]

    The Almost Flood: The real story of Noah's Ark [video, 4 min.]
    The GOP's Absurd, Hilarious Ploy to Pretend They Care About Poor People by Steven Rosenfeld
    Scientists confirm there are two different forms of female squirting during climax by Eric Hopton
    Alan Watts - When Death Happens [video, 4 min.]

    Christopher Hitchens smacks a Muslim around after he tries to stomp upon free speech [video, 9 min.]
    Are All Terrorists Muslims? It's Not Even Close by Dean Obeidallah
    The Dangerous Underestimation of Climate Change's Cost by Nicholas St. Fleur

    Why Charlie Hebdo Assassination is 100% Islam [video, 3 min.]

    Physicist Sean Carroll - Emperor Has No Clothes Award Acceptance Speech [video, 44 min.]
    Some New Arguments Against Religion by Phil Torres
    Cardinal blames sex abuse on "feminized" Church by Mary Elizabeth Williams
    Charlie-Hebdo Defiant Charlie Hebdo puts Islamic Prophet Mohammed on first cover since attack

    Better chance of dying than being cured - Michael Nugent on Lourdes [video, 1 min.]

    Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali On The Dangers Of Islamism [video, 9 min.]
    "Has America gone crazy?" by Ann Jones
    Stop Telling Me My G-Spot Doesn't Exist by Nicola Jane

    Real Time with Bill Maher: Je Suis Charlie - January 9, 2015 (HBO) [video, 15 min.]

    What is Wrong with Scientology, Part I [video, 8 min.]
    Top 5 Misconceptions about Evolution from Imgur
    Violence fuels debate among Muslims over interpreting faith by Lee Keath

    John Cleese vs Extremism [video, 2 min.]

    Poincaré Conjecture - Numberphile [video, 9 min.]
    What is Charlie Hebdo? The magazine that dared to poke fun at religion by Agnes Poirier
    Bill Maher on Paris Attack: 'There Are No Great Religions—They're All Stupid and Dangerous' by Travis Gettys
    Paris journalist murders, freedom of speech vs religion [video, 16 min.]

    Inside a Google data center [video, 5 min.]
    A Threat to Us All: Millions Buying into Apocalyptic Religion Pose a Direct Threat to Modern Society by Jeffrey Tayler
    The Right-Wing Terror Plot You Didn't Hear About This Week by Zaid Jilani

    Defending Free Speech - Christopher Hitchens [video, 21 min.]

    Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K] [video, 3 min.]
    The Animals That Went Extinct in 2014 by David Steen
    Taming Christian Rage by Emma Green

    Richard Carrier and Robert M. Price Review Exodus [audio, 1 hr., 8 min.]

    Islam - Wife Beating Etiquette [video, 4 min.]
    9 ways the Bible condones torture by Valerie Tarico
    A Self-Perpetuating Machine for US Insecurity: Welcome to the National Security State of 2015 by Tom Engelhard
    The Secrets of Sugar [video, 45 min.]

    Pussy Water - banned cologne commercial {The Kloons} [video, 1:22 min.]
    The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots by Maddie Stone
    A longtime proponent of marriage wants to reassess the institution's future by Brigid Schulte

    Godless in America. The Complete Short Film of Madalyn Murray O'Hair [video, 54 min.]

    Is Reality A Mathematical Structure? [video, 4 min.]
    U.S. incarceration rate sickening, disgraceful and far exceeds that of every other nation by Meteor Blades
    It's Not the Koran, It's Us by Leonard C. Goodman

    Sean Carroll - "Emperor Has No Clothes" Award Acceptance Speech (October 2014) [video, 44 min.]

    Bill Burr: Why I walked Away From Religion [video, 10 min.]
    God is on the ropes: The brilliant new science that has creationists and the Christian right terrified by Paul Rosenberg
    Citing Next Generations, Lawsuits Demand Courts Recognize 'Mind-Blowing' Climate Impacts by Deirdre Fulton
    TED | Paul Bloom: The Origins of Pleasure [video, 16 min.]

    Cross Fit by Jesus (CrossFit parody) {The Kloons} [video, 2 min.]
    Reflections on Torture: The Real Reason Why by Emanuel E. Garcia
    The Big Question: What's The Point? by Yiylin Li

    Journey Of Man; A Genetic Odyssey! [video, 1 hr., 54min.]

    Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke - God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988) [video, 52 min.]
    The Financial Consequences of Saying 'Black,' vs. 'African American' by Joe Pinsker
    Magna Carta: the things you didn't know by Dan Jones

    Welcome to this World [video, 4 min.]

    Need More Proof That The Music Industry Is Fake? Here You Go [video, 13 min.]
    US Senate Stands Up to House Fundamentalist Christians by Mikey Weinstein
    Charter schools promised new education innovations. Instead, they produced scam after new scam by Jeff Bryant
    Galaxy Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life [video, 11 min.]

    Racism in the United States: By the Numbers [video, 4 min.]
    The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True In 2014 by George Dvorsky
    Life in the Crosshairs - How Some Public Feminists, Atheists and Other Activists Cope With Death Threats by Valerie Tarico