NoBeliefs.com  Op/Ed and Video/Audio Archive 2017

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Montana reservations reportedly 'dumping grounds' for predatory priests by Seaborn Larson
The strange link between white supremacists and Orthodox Christianity by Katherine Kelaidis

You Can't Prove That God Doesn't Exist - Debunked [video, 10 min.]
Inside the mind of white America [video, 9 min.]

If Trump Represents The Worst Of Us, Does That Mean We're Totally Fucked? by Evert Cilliers
Trump and the Nazis: Our troll-in-chief has a deep affinity with the alt-right — and with their ancestors by Anis Shivani

What Does It Mean to Fully Be Human? Opening Yourself to Uncomfortable Truths [video, 10 min.]
Conversation on Trump - Noam Chomsky (August 18, 2017) [video, 32 min.]

Paul Krugman: We Have a Madman in the White House by Jennie Neufeld
Jesus Christ Returns, Demands To Know Who Decided "Christians" Didn't Have To Be Jewish by Halfway Post Staff

Interview: Richard Dawkins about Donald Trump on Russia Today [video, 7 min.]
Christopher Columbus Was a Murderous Moron [video, 6 min.]

Steve Bannon's revenge: Breitbart News and other conservatives swiftly declare "war" on Donald Trump by Matthew Sheffield
Why I Changed My Mind About Confederate Monuments by Kevin M. Levin
Jesus v. Trump by Wanda LaCroix

New Rule: When Bipartisanship Goes Wrong [video, 5 min.]
Richard Dawkins - Faith & Science in the Black Community [Part 1, Part 2]

7 things to know about the mindset of the neo-Nazis by Kali Holloway
Democrats in Congress Explore Creating an Expert Panel on Trump's Mental Health by Sharon Begley

Comedian Lewis Black Rips On Trump's Inner Circle [video, 3 min.]
Jim Jefferies: The Battle Over Confederate Monuments [video, 5 min.]

Yes, Joshua Feuerstein, the KKK is a Christian Organization by Michael Stone
Why the GOP Sides With the Klan and the Nazis by Thom Hartmann

Southern Man's EPIC Anti-Racist Rant [video, 3 min.]
ITER: The world's largest fusion experiment [video, 8 min.]

Constant Anxiety Won't Save the World by Julie Beck
The Story of The Selfish Gene by MIchael Rogers

Richard Dawkins: 2 Flaws Plague Unscientific Belief, from Trump & Alt-Right to Religious Doctrine [video, 5 min.]
VICE covers Charlottesville. Excellent [video, 22 min.]

America Has Entered an Age of Sadness and Despair—and Our President Personally Made This Possible by Bob Cesca
This Is the Bleakest Moment for America in My Lifetime by Charles P. Pierce

Don't Be a Sucker - 1947 [video, 17 min.]
Trump And Charlottesville: Too Little, Too Late | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann [video, 9 min.]

Eclipsing the occult in early America: Benjamin Franklin and his almanacs by Carla J. Mulford
The Alt-Right's Rebranding Effort Has Failed by Rosie Gray

Gods, Monotheism, and Ideologies All Failed. But the Brain Could Provide a Solution [video, 4 min.]
Liberal Redneck - Virginia is for Lovers, not Nazis [video, 2 min.]

Eclipsing the occult in early America: Benjamin Franklin and his almanacs by Carla J. Mulford
The Alt-Right's Rebranding Effort Has Failed by Rosie Gray

Gods, Monotheism, and Ideologies All Failed. But the Brain Could Provide a Solution [video, 4 min.]
Liberal Redneck - Virginia is for Lovers, not Nazis [video, 2 min.]

Playing Nuclear 'Chicken' With Our Lives by Lawrence Wittner
Disturbing Trend: Bad Cops Getting Rehired Back into Law Enforcement by Kali Holloway

Why Do Poor White People Vote For Trump & The Republican Party? [video, 4 min.]
Music of the Spheres [video, 5 min.]

Octopus research shows that consciousness isn't what makes humans special by Olivia Goldhill
Pets don't actually make people healthier, according to a new analysis. Ability to own a pet does. by James Hamblin

TED | How your brain decides what is beautiful [video, 15 min.]
Reverse-engineering Religion - Daniel Dennett Lecture [video, 56 min.]

You're not imagining it: the rich really are hoarding economic growth by Dylan Matthews
So much for Christian charity: Evangelicals blame the poor for poverty... by Chauncey DeVega

Why Great Artists, Leaders, and Scientists Open Their Minds to Uncertainty [video, 4 min.]
There Is No Such Thing as True Christianity (Or Any Other Religion) [video, 6 min.]

Fact-checking of Trump falling on deaf ears? Far from it by Brian Stelter
4 extreme climate impacts that Trump policies could trigger by Joe Romm

How a Christian priest became an atheist (with English subtitles) [video, 17 min.]
Trump's Terrifying Judicial Appointments - Full Frontal [video, 7 min.]

Thousands of Bernies? Progressive Groups Aim to Build a Majority From the Bottom Up by Michael Corcoran
Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication. by Sheryl Gay Stolberg

They Finally Made a Handmaid's Tale for Men [video, 2 min.]
Why You Should Sample Ideas You Disagree with, and be Skeptical of Celebrity Journalists [video, 4 min.]

Ban the Bomb by Cory Massimino
Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists by Will M. Gervais

Graphene Supercapacitors Are About To Change The World - Here's How [video, 9 min.]
Lawrence Krauss: The Great Debate On Parallel Realities, Quantum Mechanics, Dark Matter & More! [video, 1 hr., 34 min.]

Ark Encounter: How Dare You (Accurately) Say We Didn't Want to Pay a Safety Fee? by Hemant Mehta
Why Are There No New Major Religions? by Jon Emont

Bernie Sanders Explains how Republicans persuade poor people to vote against their own interests [video, 6 min.]
Evolution is True! Get over it - Jerry Coyne Lecture [video, 57 min.]

How States Across the Country Are Making Universal Health Care Happen in the Face of Rabid GOP Opposition by Ann Jones
Is the world really better than ever? by Oliver Burkeman

Interstellar flight: 10 Hard Facts [video, 22 min.]
Want a Meaningful Life? Learn to Control Your Mental Attitude [video, 11 min.]

Volunteers continue to testify against Mother Teresa's Charity by Hemley Gonzalez
Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy? by Gregory Laughlin

A Note on Women in Bags [video, 9 min.]
TED | Why humans run the world [video, 17 min.]

Trump Begged Mexico's President Not to Tell the Truth About His Vile Border Wall by Kali Holloway
Papineau vs Dennett: a philosophical dispute introduction by Tim Crane

A World Without Religion - Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss [video,1 hr, 16 min.]
FFRF Ad: "You're Sued!" [video, 1 min..]

Trump Is Now Personally Implicated in a Coverup—Although We Still Can't Be Sure What He's Hiding by Heather Digby Parton
Resistance Works — Exhibit A by Greta Christina

Honest Government Advert - HealthCare [video, 2 min.]
Escher cube [video, 29 sec.]

States With The Most Abortion Laws Are The Worst At Actually Protecting Women's Health by Catherine Pearson
House Republicans Are Convinced Trump Is out of His Gourd by Robert Reich

This video shows the extraordinary trend of global warming in more than 100 countries [video, 34 sec.]
Ex Muslim delivers the greatest speech I have ever heard from an Arab Atheist [video, 10 min.]

How the Religious Liberty Executive Order Licenses Discrimination by Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza and Sharita Gruberg
The Political Theology Of Trumpian Evangelicalism by Susan M. Shaw

Down Goes the Mooch! - Keith Olbermann [video, 4 min.]
John Oliver - Alex Jones [video, 22 min.]

Fascism and the Denial of Truth: What Henry Wallace Can Teach Us About Trump by Thomas J. Scott
Evidence About Jesus is Weaker than You Might Think by Valerie Tarico and David Fitzgerald

Richard Feynman talks about light [video, 6 min.]
Pursuit (4K) [video, 8 min.]

What Is a Scientific Theory? by Alina Bradford
The polygamous  town facing genetic disaster by Zaria Gorvett

The Truth About Republicans by George Carlin [video, 10 min.]
Man in his arrogance - by Carl Sagan [video, 4 min.]

Science journalist retires at 98 and warns of generation of Americans who suffer from a thinking 'disability' by Ian Johnston
Normalize Resistance by Greta Christina

19 seconds of drama: Reaction to McCain's vote [video, 1 min.]
Case Closed. Collusion Has Been Proven | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann [video, 8 min.]

Bible says Canaanites were wiped out by Israelites but scientists just found their descendants living in Lebanon by Ian Johnston
Why religious people 'cling' to beliefs even when contradicted by evidence by Chris Baynes

North Carolina Church Allegedly Kept Slaves [video, 2 min.]
The Invisible Line in the Indian Ocean [video, 5 min.]

Climate Change Is Killing Us Right Now by Emily Atkin
A timeline map of the massive increase in human-caused earthquakes in Oklahoma from seismicsoundlab

TED | The manipulative tricks tech companies use to capture your attention [video, 17 min.]
Liberal Redneck - Transgender Patriots and the GOP [video, 4 min.]

Plantinga's Tiger and Other Stupid Shit by Richard Carrier
10 Outrageous Scandals That Rocked The Vatican In Recent Years by Radu Alexander

Seth Andrews - The Copycats: How Christianity Steals The Best Ideas [video, 39 min.]
The Fermi Paradox, Cyborgs, And Artificial Intelligence - My Interview With Isaac Arthur [video, 23 min.]

Trump Is Obsessed With His Twitter Following—Too Bad Most of His Followers Are Fake by Celisa Calacal
Nero, the Execution of Peter and Paul, and the Biggest Fake News in Early Christian History by Candida Moss

Educational Neglect: When Superstition Shackles the Mind [audio, 1 hr., 22 min.]
2009 Chevy Malibu vs 1959 Bel Air Crash Test [video, 2 min.]

The War on the Freedom of Information Act by Michelle Cottle
Quantum teleportation is even weirder than you think by Richard Haughton

Hack Your Brain's Default Mode with Meditation [video, 4 min.]
Lawrence Krauss, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye - The Future of Space Exploration [video, 53 min.]

Pass the Salt: The Myth of the Low-Salt Diet by Michael Bader
A Test for Consciousness? by Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks

Is America A Christian Nation? [video, 14 min.]
The Ancient Genius Who Shaped Our Modern World - Documentary [video, 44 min.]

Donald Trump's Report Card: A Paralyzed, Scandal-Plagued Presidency That's Only Getting Worse by Heather Digby Parton
Bill Nye Slams 'Dingbats,' Says Climate Deniers Are Old And Will Soon Be Dead by Ed Mazza

Lawrence Krauss: Stop Validating Ignorance [video, 4 min.]
The Planck's Number, The End of Space and Time - Documentary [video, 52 min.]

Why Scholars Doubt the Traditional Authors of the Gospels by Matthew Ferguson
Your Brain Doesn't Contain Memories. It Is Memories by Nick Stockton

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Charlie Rose Interviews #1 [video, 50 min.]
Your Brain Tells You Time Is Real — But Is It Lying to You? [video, 5 min.]

Six ways Trump is 'dismantling' the US after six months in office by Dominic Rushe, et al
The age of white Christian America is ending. Here's how it got there. by Tara Isabella Burton

Altered States of Consciousness: There's Nothing Supernatural About It [video, 5 min.]
Scientist Blows Whistle on Trump Administration [video, 2 min.]

Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt  by James Dyke
The End of the American Experiment by Umair Haque

TED | How your brain hallucinates your conscious reality [video, 17 min.]
All the ways caffeine affects you [video, 5 min.]

What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted from Nat Geo
OUCH: Texas paper destroys Trump's six months in office by documenting every one of his failures by Tom Boggioni

Mindful Self-Acceptance? Bad Idea According to Ancient Chinese Philosophers [video, 6 min.]
Perspective [video, 2 min.]

Colder Winters Don't Mean Global Warming Isn't Happening by Mike McRae
We worked out what it would take to wipe out all life on a planet – and it's good news for alien hunters by R. A. Batista & David Sloan

TED | Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power [video, 15 min.]
Cosmic Natural Selection | Lawrence Krauss [video, 1 hr., 12 min.]

Mr. Trump, the Climate Change Loner by The New York Times editoral board
This documentary shows how close we are to a real-life "Handmaid's Tale" by Tom Roston

Why the Best Scientists Are Open-Minded: Jane Goodall and Bali's Water Temples [video, 8 min.]
Richard Feynman - Nature of Nature [video, 6 min.]

Preparing for Doomsday: A Shelter-in-Place Mentality Is the New American Normal by William Astore
A Man in a Hurry: Claude Shannon's New York Years by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

Daniel Dennett - Is There Any Good Reason to Believe in God? [video, 1 hr., 10 min.]
Sean Carroll - Events and the Nature of Time [video, 6 min.]

New research reveals how little we can trust eyewitnesses by Dara Mojtahedi
The Handmaid's Tale Is a Warning to Conservative Women by Sarah Jones

Lawrence Krauss on Trump and Putin, USSR, dark energy, education and theology [video, 49 min.]
Liberal Redneck - (Internet) Freedom Isn't Free [video, 3 min.]

Donald Trump Jr offers the closest thing to a smoking gun by Lawrence Douglas
Bernie Sanders holds highest approval rating at home, Mitch McConnell is dead last by Charlie May

Why people think they see ghosts [video, 6 min.]
An Atheist Meets God [video, 5 min.]

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
NASA: A 60-Year Interstellar Trip Needs a "Self-Healing" Ship by Neel V. Patel

Deeper than the Hubble Deep Field [video, 4 min.]
Neil deGrasse Tyson: How to Teach Science? [video, 10 min.]

Here's exactly how Russia can hack the 2018 elections by Alex Thompson
What Trump's Cybersecurity Flip-Flop Reveals by David A. Graham

Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press [video, 59 min.]
Lewis Black rips on trumps inner circle [video, 3 min.]

Why Isn't Voter Suppression Considered Political Corruption? by Marcus H. Johnson
Physicists provide support for retrocausal quantum theory, in which the future influences the past by Lisa Zyga

Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths [video, 16 min.]
Rockwell Retro Encabulator [video, 2 min.]

America, Please Stop Feeding the Trolls by Lauren Duca
The weird power of the placebo effect, explained by Brian Resnick

Meaning of Life, in 3 Minutes [video, 3 min.]
Ode to Yahweh (with NonStampCollector) [video, 8 min.]

10 of the best protest signs welcoming President Trump to Hamburg for G20 by Alexandra Rosenman
Why Eating Meat in America Is Like Going on a Trip to the Drug Store by Martha Rosenberg

The Miracles of Jesus Under Trumpcare [video, 5 min.]
GOD: Serengeti [audio, 4 min.]

Some Trump supporters thought NPR tweeted 'propaganda' it was the Declaration of Independence by Jack Moore
Physicists May Have Discovered One of the Missing Pieces of Quantum Theory by Dom Galeon and Abby Norman

Dr. Elizabeth Loftus - The Fiction of Memory [video, 39 min.]
Richard Feynman - Fixing Radios [audio, 13 min.]

Why women are dressing up as Margaret Atwood's Handmaids by Cordelia Freeman
Soul of a Molecular Machine: A Conversation With Venki Ramakrishnan from Edge

The "Mountain Or Valley?" Illusion [video, 4 min.]
How Your Brain Is Getting Hacked: Facebook, Tinder, Slot Machines [video, 6 min.]

Trump Can't Reverse the Decline of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones
The Stomach-Turning Numbers Behind America's Police Violence by Celisa Calacal

Liberal Redneck - Red, White and Skeeeew [video, 3 min.]
Skepticism and the Simulation Hypothesis — David Chalmers [video, 10 min.]

The Constant White House Enabling of Trump's Perverse and Pervasive Narcissism by Kerry Eleveld
The Souring of American Exceptionalism by David Frum

Can Dark Energy be explained [video, 46 min.]
John Oliver - Sinclair Broadcast Group [video, 19 min.]

Human Emotions Really Are Affected by Gut Bacteria, New Study Suggests by Peter Dockrill
Don't Call It the Trump Administration—This Is a Regime by Carol Anderson

How to Resolve Any Argument—Even Nasty Political Ones [video, 8 min.]
The Secret Life Of Brian [video, 54 min.]

Does the Militarization of Police Lead to More People Killed? Research Says Yes by Celisa Calacal
Dark Matter Theory Triumphs In Sweeping New Study by Ethan Siegel

Letter To A Christian Spouse [video, 12 min.]
2017 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: De-Extinction [video, 1 hr., 50 min.]

The Brain as Computer: Bad at Math, Good at Everything Else by Joshua Roebke
Here's how the US empire will devolve into fascism and then collapse — according to science by Travis Gettys

You Just Believe The God You Were Brought Up WIth [video, 9 min.]
Bill Maher - Richard A. Clarke: Warnings [video, 7 min.]

Nil Communication: How to Send a Message without Sending Anything at All by Joshua Roebke
What Google searches for porn tell us about ourselves by Sean Illing

A Simple Mind Trick Will Help You Think More Rationally [video, 3 min.]
Come Home (Cardinal Pell) - Tim Minchin [video, 5 min.]

Google search data shows "a crisis of self-induced abortions" by Jason Kottke
Sending More Troops to Afghanistan Would Be a Historic Mistake by Marc Joffe

The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias [video, 7 min.]
The Mind Body Problem: An interview with Ned Block [video, 15 min.]

An Open Letter to the GOP: You Are Sentencing Me to Death by Raul Carranza
The tyranny of things and how virtual reality will set us free by Sarah Firisen

Is Race Genetic or Socially Constructed? [video, 6 min.]
Faster fusion [video, 5 min.]

FFRF blasts Supreme Court's Trinity Lutheran decision from Freedom From Religion Foundation
This is what overpolicing looks like: Black teens handcuffed by undercover cops for selling water on a hot day by D. Watkins

The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence [video, 1 hr., 1 min.]
How Cognitive Biases Bend Reality: Private Optimism vs. Public Despair [video, 9 min.]

'Of All the Categories of Fake News, Health News Is the Worst' by Julie Beck
Evil in the Holy Bible by from Relatively Interesting

New Rule: I Didn't Reproduce Day | Real Time with Bill Maher [video, 6 min.]
3 Brain Systems That Control Your Behavior: Reptilian, Limbic, Neo Cortex | Robert Sapolsky [video, 8 min.]

Home is where the hate is by David Neiwert
President Donald Trump Is Telling Lies at an Astonishing and Historic Rate by Steven Rosenfeld

An Evening With Lawrence Krauss & Matt Dillahunty [video, 1 hr., 46 min.]
Take This - Cyanide & Happiness Shorts [video, 1 min.]

Bernie Sanders Absolutely Unloads on Senate Republicans' 'Barbaric' Health Care Bill by Alexandra Rosenmann
Where Gravity Is Weak and Naked Singularities Are Verboten by Natalie Wolchover

Just WTF [video, 5 min.]
Noah's Ark is Plagiarized. Here's how we know [video, 13 min.]

These are all the people the Senate health care bill will hurt by Dylan Matthews
Churches would need to raise $714,000 per year to fill in the gap from Trump's poverty program cuts by Jack Jenkins

Want the Benefits of Faith without Believing in God? Try Hope. [video, 4 min.]
Le clitoris - Animated Documentary (2016) [video, 3 min.]

A Growing Number of Scholars Are Questioning the Historical Existence of Jesus by Philip Perry
The bloodstained leveller by Walter Scheidel

If I believed in God - Neil deGrasse Tyson [video, 5 min.]
Greenhouses of the Future, Growing Food Without Soil [video, 11 min.]

There Are Real Paid Protesters, but They're All Right Wingers by Kali Holloway
Trump's new conservative Christian lawyer Jay Sekulow is just another right-wing grifter by Travis Gettys

Ned Block: "Why AI Approaches to Cognition Won't Work for Consciousness" | Talks at Google [video, 1 hr., 3 min.]
Seth Andrews: Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot [video, 38 min.]

By 2100, Deadly Heat May Threaten Majority of Humankind by Stephen Leahy
4 Enduring Myths About American Slavery by Daina Ramey Berry

Lawrence Krauss: Why Are We Here? [video, 1 hr., 25 min.]
'The Hitch'- Christopher Hitchens documentary [video, 1 hr., 23 min.]

When Neurology Becomes Theology by Robert A. Burton
America's mass delusion (satire) by Scott Gilmore

A better description of entropy [video, 12 min.]
Hidden Secrets and Hypocrisy of The Vatican - Documentary [video, 1 hr., 26 min.]

Alien Knowledge: When machines justify knowlege by David Weinberger
New Study Suggests: The More Black Holes In Our Universe Exist, The More Intelligent Life Will Develop by Sarah Cox

What Is Reality? [video, 30 min.]
Poll: Why America's Non-Believers Left Religion [video, 4 min.]

Supertasters among the dreaming spires by Dan Rosenheck
Do parents really matter? by Brian Boutwell

The Unbelievable Scale of Black Holes Visualized [video, 8 min.]
The Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody) [video, 5 min.]

Asteroid mining is going to be a thing, and this is why by Elizabeth Rayne
If you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it by Jason Kottke

Why Can't We Agree on Facts? [video, 14 min.]
The biology of our best and worst selves | Robert Sapolsky [video, 16 min.]

How Democrats Can Stop Losing Elections by Bernie Sanders
More on the Search for Intelligent Life by Justin E. H. Smith

Alan Alda: How to Grow Your Empathy Through Better Visual Perception [video, 10 min.]
The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) [video, 1 hr., 1 min.]

Trump's War To 'Annihilate' ISIS Is Raising Civilian Casualties by David Wood
Persuasive proof that America is full of racist and selfish people interview with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Why reducing our carbon emissions matters (a little story about climate change) [video, 4 min.]
Isaac Asimov talks about superstition, religion and why he teaches rationality [video, 25 min.]

Donald Trump is losing control of his presidency by Matthew Rozsa
On 50th Anniversary of Israeli Occupation, Palestinian Opinions Largely Ignored by Adam Johnson

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Don't Believe the Dark Matter Hype [video, 7 min.]
The 4 times Ricky Gervais nailed it! [video, 13 min.]

33 Of The World's Top Physicists Penned A Letter About The Origin Of The Universe from Curiosity
This One Chart Shows How Solar Energy Growth Is Skyrocketing Beyond Predictions by Leanna Garfield

Col Larry Wilkerson breaks down the scariest scenario yet [video, 20 min.]
Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? [video, 6 min.]

What Both the Left and Right Get Wrong About Race by Dalton Conley & Jason Fletcher
Science: Music turns you on in the same way as sex and drugs by Al Olson

Legal Pedophilia in the US: a True Story of Child Brides in America [video, 4 min.]
Bernie Sanders Destroys Religious Bigot During Confirmation Hearing [video, 10 min.]

Trump Is Making America More Hostile and Mentally Ill: New England Journal of Medicine by Bobby Azarian
Potential building block of life found in very young star system by Daniel Clery

This Video Isn't Real [video, 8 min.]
A Message for Donald Trump from Former Mexican President Vicente Fox [video, 4 min.]

New Fossil Find Pushes Back The Origins of Homo Sapiens by 100,000 Years by Mike McRae
Math Has No God Particle by Oliver Roeder

Cosmic Skeptic talks to Lawrence Krauss [video, 10 min.]
Neil deGrasse Tyson Describes How Leonardo da Vinci Used Seashells To Refute The Flood in Noah's Ark [video, 2 min.]

Here are how 'race tests' keep some evangelical churches lily-white by Joshua L. Lazard
Will the Neocons' Long War Ever End? by Nicolas J. S. Davies

Inside Judaism - Jewish History [video, 1 hr., 52 min.]
Liberal Redneck on DT protecting USA's reputation [video, 4 min.]

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee by Adam Serwer
What is a cult? by Tara Isabella Burton

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Charlie Rose [video, 28 min.]
John Oliver - Putin and Trump [video, 4 min.]

Swing States Give Trump Low Marks by Tim Marcin
Trump's decision to quit the Paris Agreement may be his worst business 'deal' yet by Andreas Goldthau

Capitalism Is in Trouble. Socialist Principles Can Save It. [video, 11 min.]
What if We ARE Alone in the Universe? [video, 6 min.]

Latest Black Hole Collision Comes With a Twist by Natalie Wolchover
Christians 0, Christians 0… From The Reformation To Today by Edward Babinski

5 Bad Reasons to Ditch the Paris Climate Agreement [video, 9 min.]
I Tried Medical Marijuana For My Chronic Pain [video, 17 min.]

Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought by Daniel Cox
The Unbelievable Hypocrisy of Evangelical Women Who Use Planned Parenthood by Hemant Mehta

New Gravitational Wave Discovery! [video, 5 min.]
3 Dire Warnings That Could Stop Global Catastrophe [video, 12 min.]

Trump on NATO funding: Still misleading after months of fact checks by Glenn Kessler
The Unbelievable Hypocrisy of Evangelical Women Who Use Planned Parenthood by Hemant Mehta

Conspiracy Theories: A Symptom of Bad (Often Religious) Ideas [video, 4 min.]
Salt Recommendations Don't Line Up with Recent Evidence [video, 5 min.]

The Loneliness of Donald Trump by Rebecca Solnit
Understanding the Limitations of Maps from Farnam Street

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Think Again Podcast [audio, 44 min.]
Homeopathic Emergency Department [video, 3 min.]

How Conservatives Awoke to the Dangers of Sean Hannity by Conor Friedersdorf
Things Christians Have Been Against by Edward Babinski

Consciousness Is a Narrative Created by Your Unconscious Mind [video, 4 min.]
If Atheists Sounded Like Christians [video, 4 min.]

Trump's White Christian Voter Base Is Shrinking, But What Will Replace It? by Steven Rosenfeld
The fake news is coming from inside the White House by Philip Bump

Prophets for Profits - Which religion suits your insecurities? (The Kloons) [video, 4 min.]
Sergeant York - how Christians rationalize killing people [video, 7 min.]

Jesus, big money and the GOP: Before Fox News, there was "The 700 Club" by Terry Heaton
Mars, Stephen Hawking and the Selfish Gene: Why Humans Are Programmed to Self-Destruct Wherever We Go by John Baird

The incredible inventions of intuitive AI [video, 15 min.]
Christians Upset About Atheist's Bible Verse [video, 2 min.]

The Thoughts of a Spiderweb by Joshua Sokol
Why young South Koreans are turning away from religion by Steven Borowiec

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Insights on Our Evolving Universe from World-Class Astrophysicists (2016) [video, 1 hr., 47 min.]
What Was Before the Big Bang? | Sean Carroll [video, 3 min.]

Christians Did Not Invent Charity and Philanthropy by Richard Carrier
Trump's Budget Would Cause Massive Cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps With Devastating Ripple Effects by Amanda Marcotte

Trump Was The Laughingstock Of NATO [video, 4 min.]
The Universe Zapped Our Neighbors (Fermi Paradox) [video, 7 min.]

Trump's Latest Disastrous Raid Kills More Civilians in Yemen While U.S. Media Obediently Echoes the Pentagon by Ben Norton
Manchester Bomber Was Product of West's Libya/Syria Intervention by Daniel McAdams

Lawrence Krauss VS a Panel of Philosophers [video, 1 hr., 5 min.]
Emo Philips on How God Works [video, 3 min.]

What happens when our military machines are not only unmanned but autonomous? by AC Grayling
Brilliant Maps from Brilliantmaps.com

In 1985, Isaac Asimov Predicted Artificial Intelligence(AI), Robotics & Job Replacement Today [video, 21 min.]
Nick Offerman's Common Sense #2: How Fake News Changes Us [video, 3 min.]

All Godless Universes Are Mathematical by Richard Carrier
How Trump's Budget Would Weaken Public Health by Vann R. Newkirk II

Can Derren Brown Fool a Clinical Psychologist? [video, 7 min.]
Genital Mutilators Cite Religious Freedom [video, 8 min.]

Our Quest to Find a One-Sided Magnet Just Took an Unexpected Turn by BEC Crew
This might be the coolest visualization of evolution ever by Brian Resnick

Why Gold is so rare? | Brian Cox [video, 4 min.]
Why Evolution is True and Why Many People Still Don't Believe It (Jerry Coyne, 2012) [video, 1 hr., 6 min.]

'Who's a pretty princess now, bitches': Internet ridicules Trump for 'curtsy' before Saudi king by Tom Boggioni
Climate Impacts Happening Now: Westward Migration of Forests by Bruce Melton

Daniel Sloss - Religion [video, 4 min.]
Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations [video, 2 min.]

With all eyes on Trump, GOP Congress is still working to strip health care from millions by Amanda Marcotte
What Do Organisms, Crowded Cities, and Corporations Have in Common? by Matt Staggs

Jeff Garlin: Political Correctness Can't Beat Having Good Taste [video, 3 min.]
Chaos Theory PBS [video, 58 min.]

Scientists Propose New Theory for How Life on Earth Began by Hannah Osborne
The World's Worst Negotiation by Conor Friedersdorf

Storing the Sun's Energy in Liquid Could Change Solar Forever [video, 4 min.]
New Rule: Orange Sphincter to the Rescue [video, 6 min.]

White House staffers are planning their exit strategies from a scandal-plagued administration: Report by Matthew Rozsa
Michael Moore Has a New Plan to 'Destabilize' Trump's Presidency by Ilana Novick

We Found Another State of Matter: The Supersolid! [video, 4 min.]
Liberal Redneck - What's It Gonna Take Yall [video, 3 min.]

Donald Trump's poll numbers are falling, as calls for impeachment are getting louder by Matthew Rozsa
Brian Greene on How Science Became a Political Prisoner by Nick Stockton

A World With and Without Planned Parenthood [video, 3 min.]
A visual guide to Bayesian thinking [video, 11 min.]

Donald Trump has committed the exact offense that forced Richard Nixon to resign by Dylan Matthews
Pantheist' Lincoln would be unelectable today by Guy Adams

Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Hardwired to Be Cruel to Each Other? [video, 7 min.]
WOTM: This thing... [video, 9 min.]

The primacy of doubt in an age of illusory certainty by Ashutosh Jogalekar
Paul Krugman: Trump Is Putting Us on the Path to Economic Ruin by Ilana Novick

Lawrence Krauss - The Border Between Reason & Nonsense [video, 1 hr., 3 min.]
How Far has Humanity Reached into the Universe? [video, 7 min.]

Classified America: Why Is the US Public Allowed To Know So Little? by Robert Koehler
Nietzsche's Enlightenment by Patrick West

Why knights fought snails in medieval art [video, 5 min.]
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Life on Europa, Jupiter's Moons, Ice Fishing and Racket Sports [video, 7 min.]

Can bacteria help us understand religion? The human mind as a host for contagious ideas by Valerie Tarico
There's no waking up from America's Trump nightmare by Damon Linker

Bill Hicks explains US Presidency [audio, 4 min.]
The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth [video, 1 hr.]

Has Evangelical Christianity Become Sociopathic? by Tim Rymel, M.Ed
Donald Trump Has Compromised Every Major Investigation Into Alleged Russian Interference by N. Baumann , R.J. Reilly , S. Stein

Neil deGrasse Tyson on God [video, 2 min.]
New Rule: Social Media is the New Nicotine [video, 5 min.]

Is Inflationary Cosmology Science? by Sean Carroll
Poll: The First Word That Comes to Mind When We Think of Trump Is... by Katie Serena

WATCH: Al Franken systematically destroys the Trump administration's talking points on Comey firing [2 videos]
How To Spot Pseudoscience [video, 3 min.]

The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it by Clive Hamilton
The most promising route to 'mental superpowers' by Bobby Azarian

Where's the Smoke, Comey's Fired [video, 3 min.]
Bill Nye Explains Why The March For Science Was Necessary [video, 7 min.]

Republicans Don't Know How the Human Body Works by Jesse Berney
No, we haven't found signs of life – alien or otherwise - in the solar system by Phil Plait

This Is Not What Space Looks Like [video, 4 min.]
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Denial [video, 12 min.]

I'm facing jail time after laughing at Jeff Sessions. I regret nothing. by Desiree Fairooz
Republicans are nothing like Rocky or George Patton — they are political terrorists by Chauncey DeVega

Isaac Asimov: Climate Change and Humanity (1989) [video, 10 min.]
Blade Runner 2049 Trailer [video, 2 min.]

Study Finds Link Between Brain Damage and Religious Fundamentalism by Paul Ratne
If Trumpcare Ends Up Happening, Up to 7 Million Veterans Could See Their Health Care Ruined by Michael Hayne

Richard Dawkins - Why Do Bad Things Happen? [video, 1 hr., 25 min.]
Is It Really Possible to Change Someone's Beliefs? [video, 5 min.]

America's dangerously shallow understanding of the Holocaust by Andrea Pitzer
The Great Recession hurt millions. Now, Republicans want to risk a repeat by Keith Ellison

Lawrence Krauss - Physics Made Easy [video, 1 hr., 7 min.]
The Strangest Star In The Universe [video, 11 min.]

Trumpcare Nightmare: Just About Everyone With Health Care Is Going to Pay More, Get Less and Face Chaos by S. Rosenfeld
Fabricating Jesus — An Interview with Former Minister David Chumney by Valerie Tarico

Fact vs. Fiction: How Facts Are Made, and Who Decides What's True [video, 7 min.]
Neil Degrasse Tyson on Einstein [video, 6 min.]

'Fear of the Clit': A Brief History of Medical Books Erasing Women's Genitalia by Suzannah Weiss
Here's Why Bottled Water Is One of The Biggest Scams of The Century by Erin Brodwin

What you need to know about the House vote to repeal Obamacare [video, 3 min.]
The Last Light In The Universe (White Dwarfs) [video, 6 min.]

This is not a normal president by Jennifer Rubin
Alt-right hopes to organize street-fighting goon squad: Is it more than macho posturing? by Amanda Marcotte

The Civil War – A Film By Donald Trump [video, 2 min.]
Richard Feynman: Knowing versus Understanding [video, 6 min.]

Donald Trump Doesn't Appear to Have a Clue Why the Civil War Was Fought by Laura Clawson
Why Doesn't Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? by Julie Sedivy

Even More Unscientific Quran Verses [video, 6 min.]
The Mysterious Glass [video, 1 min.]

The Mythical Stillbirth of Science in Greece by Richard Carrier
Why Doesn't Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? by Julie Sedivy

Do Our Senses Reveal the World—Or Do They Obscure It? [video, 6 min.]
Richard Feynman: 'Greek' versus 'Babylonian' mathematics [video, 10 min.]

Can bacteria help us understand religion?: The brain-changing power of religious belief by Valerie Tarico
How a professional climate change denier discovered the lies and decided to fight for science interview by Sharon LernerCarrier

Pseudo-science and other bullshit [video, 8 min.]
Bill Maher: New Rule: Change Anxiety [video, 6 min.]

It's the Mathematics Tool We Use Every Day, but What Exactly Is Bayes' Theorem? by Mike Lee & Benedict King
Why Do We Still Believe in Q? by Richard Carrier

Rise of the Sex Robots [video, 16 min.]
Tapper: This is the Definition of Fake News [video, 3 min.]

How White Nationalists Are Setting Immigration Policy in Trump's White House by Shane Burley
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria by James Somers

Richard Feynman - Patents [video, 7 min.]
Honest Ads - Why Credit Cards Are A Scam [video, 5 min.]

Are American Voters Actually Just Stupid? A New Poll Suggests the Answer May Be 'Yes' by Chauncey DeVega
Making Impossible Objects with Mirrors by Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik

Anthropocene [video, 29 min.]
Jordan Peterson: Lots of Parents Do NOT Like Their Children! [video, 9 min.]

Confederate memorials have no place in American society. Good riddance by Steven W Thrasher
Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World" interview with Noam Chomsky

TED | How fake news does real harm [video, 6 min.]
If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? With Daniel Dennett [video, 1 hr., 16 min.]

As Soon as Trump Started Bombing, the Corporate Media and Establishment Rushed to Call Him 'Presidential' by Tom Engelhardt
9 years ago, I started a love affair with a supplement that makes me sleep like a baby by Mark Joseph Stern

An Overview of DARPA's Service Academies Swarm Challenge [video, 4 min.]
John Oliver - Ivanka & Jared [video, 22 min.]

An apolitical profession wakes up: Trauma surgeons speak out about gun violence by Amanda Marcotte
The Bizarre Experience of Watching Cable News in America on Earth Day by Thom Hartmann

Louie CK Trying To Buy A House [video, 4 min.]
Refuting 5 'Undeniable' Proofs Of Christ's Resurrection [video, 17 min.]

The Benefits of Solitude by Michael Harris
People Have Limited Knowledge. What's the Remedy? Nobody Knows by Yuval Harari

Bill Nye calls out lawmakers [video, 3 min.]
90s Anti-Drug Ad Gets A Redo - Your Brain On Drug Policy [video, 1 min.]

We need to get rid of carbon in the atmosphere, not just reduce emissions by Eelco Rohling
The Exhaustive List Of Everyone Who's Died Of A Marijuana Overdose by Nick Wing

Models are always imperfect, and the ones we choose greatly shape our experience [video, 3 min.]
Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video, 1 hr., 9 min.]

Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Blueprint for Fighting (and Defeating) Trump by Alexandra Rosenmann
The Guardian on Jesus: Dear oh dear… by Richard Carrier

2017 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: De-Extinction [video, 1 hr., 50 min.]
The Science Guy Vs Twitter Twits [video, 9 min.]

To Change Politics, Do More Than March for Science by the editors of Scientific American
Ex-Clergy Explain How They Realized There Is No God by Annie Armstrong

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Science in America [video, 5 min.]
The Universe Doesn't Give a Damn about Us | Lawrence Krauss on Optimism [video, 5 min.]

7 reasons why today's left should be optimistic by Ruy Teixeira
Everybody is free to have the same religion we do! cartoon from Life of Bria

DeepMind CEO, "Artificial Intelligence (AI) invents new knowledge and teaches human new theories" [video, 26 min.]
How Louis CK Makes Everything Funny [video, 11 min.]

Why Trump's media magic ran out by Michael Brendan Dougherty
A Brief History of Flat Earth Truthers by Neel V. Patel

Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson [video, 7 min.]
Trump Impersonator At Tax Day Protest Rally In DC [video, 8 min.]

Searching the Skies for Alien Laser Beams by Marina Koren
Second coming ends prematurely as Jesus killed in American airstrike by The Chaser

An Interview With Neil deGrasse Tyson...fountain pens, work, and a new book [video, 54 min.]
Church Police: Just What America Needed [video, 5 min.]

Since 9/11, there has been a shift from catching terrorists to policing Muslims by Zaheer Kazmi
Trump Flip Flops Once Again, Now Allowing Hedge Funds Their $180 Billion Tax Dodge by Robert Greenwald and Charles Khan

Dave Barry: Politics Is Based On a Fundamental Lie, says "Cynical Libertarian" [video, 5 min.]
I was a prominent neo-Nazi. Ignoring white extremists is a mistake [video, 4 min.]

Evidence, Miracles and the Existence of Jesus by Stephen Law
The trick to persuading people you're right, according to experimental psychology by Hugo Mercier
NASA's new nighttime map of the entire Earth posted by Jason Kottke

Quiz Show (Bible Contradictions) [video, 10 min.]
NASA at Saturn: Cassini's Grand Finale [video, 4 min.]

Trump is coming for your Social Security: How the GOP plans a bait and switch to cut taxes — and pensions by H. D. Parton
What Sadomasochism Can Teach Us About Human Sexuality by Gregory Gorelik

You Don't Have as Much Control as You Think You Do [video, 4 min.]
Carl Sagan Changed My Life: Bill Nye on Chuck Berry, Kids' Love of Science, and Voyager Spacecraft [video, 4 min.]

It's not just Syria. Trump is ratcheting up wars across the world by Trevor Timm
Has America Become the Reality of the Abusive and Cruel Stanford Prison Experiment? by Chauncey DeVega

The Bayesian Trap [video, 11 min.]
Why Searching for a Theory of Everything Is Better Than Finding It [video, 4 min.]

Data From 14 Million Papers Is Now Available Online for Free by June Javelosa
America's president is a fool by Damon Linker

Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [video, 20 min.]
Incredible low-light camera turns night into day [video, 3 min.]

Anxiety Attack? Don't Panic—Try CBD Instead by Phillip Smith
Reawaken your sense of wonder by Sally Stephens

How Alternative Medicine Pushed Me to Atheism [video, 5 min.]
How Much Plastic is in the Ocean? [video, 5 min.]

America Has Become a War Machine—and It Has Destroyed Our Ability to Function as a Democracy by Tom Engelhardt
History of Religion cartoon from imgur

Michelle Thaller on Science Denial [video, 11 min.]
New Rule: What Would a Dick Do? | Real Time with Bill Maher [video, 5 min.]

Jared Kushner hid dozens of meetings with Russians from his application for top-secret security clearance by Taylor Link
Trump's senseless Syria strikes accomplish nothing by Moustafa Bayoumi

TED | A visual history of human knowledge [video, 13 min.]
'Hey Bill Nye, How Do You Reason with a Science Skeptic?' [video, 4 min.]

Conspiracy Theorist in Chief by The Times Editorial Board
Here are 25 commonly accepted 'facts' that are just total bullshit by Larry Schwartz

What If You're Born Without Sympathy & Empathy? [video, 4 min.]
Liberal Redneck - Parks and the Outdoors and Trump and Stuff [video, 3 min.]

Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others by Matthew Hutson
Drinking wine engages more of your brain than solving maths problems, find scientistse by Sarah Young

Malcolm X: The Ballot Or The Bullet [video, 53 min.]
Bill Burr: Helicopter Jump (Animation) [video, 4 min.]

Is consciousness just an illusion? by Anna Buckley
Noam Chomsky: Trump Is Aiming to Decimate All Programs That Help Working People by Amy Goodman and Juan González

TED | How to take a picture of a black hole [video, 13 min.]
Bill Nye on Conspiracy Theorists: NASA's Moon Landing, Vaccines, Astrology, and Tarot Cards [video, 4 min.]

The factories of the future could float in space by Andrew Rosenblum
'Violence more common' in Bible than Quran, text analysis reveals by Samuel Osborne

Neil deGrasse Tyson on belief that god started Big Bang [audio, 9 min.]
Attacking Ideas [video, 43 min.]

A Solution to Fermi's Paradox? by Jim Walker
Bill Nye will join the March for Science by Sarah Kaplan
Why It's So Hard to Understand That the Violence Your Country Exports Is Terrorism by Vijay Prashad

Jack Stedman Rants... Belief [video, 8 min.]
It Would Not Be Cool If AI Were Conscious — It Would Be Dumb | Daniel Dennett [video, 4 min.]

Trump's Climate Change Denial Is Getting Truly Weird by Amanda Marcotte
The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe by Walter Scheidel

DARPA Insider "We are on Verge of Cataclysmic Discovery" [video, 58 min.]
Louis C.K. Says They Should Stop Making Porn [video, 5 min.]

The Worst 'Alternative Facts' About Abortion by Sofia Resnick
From decapitation to positive psychology: how one nerve connects body, brain and mind by Andrew H Kemp

A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence [video, 16 min.]
If we treated cancer patients the way we treat addicts [video, 2 min.]

Music as medicine: how songs could soon replace painkillers and help you sleep better from Wired Health
Yuval Harari on why humans won't dominate Earth in 300 years interview with Yuval Harari

Jesus wasn't Jesus [video, 12 min.]
Comedian Doug Stanhope on Overpopulation [video, 2 min.]

Crime and no punishment: New PBS documentary series shows there is no justice for war criminals by Max Cea
As Trump's Denialists Get to Work, the Climate Is Changing 170 Times Faster by Dahr Jamail

Hybrid Intelligence: Coupling AI and the Human Brain [video, 3 min.]
Atheist Exposes Ark Encounter [video, 1 min.]

America's Health Illiteracy: How Easy It Is to Buy into Health Myths by Larry Schwartz
It's Never Trump's Fault by David A. Graham

What Caused the Big Bang? Consider the Beer Bottle... [video, 4 min.]
Scientists agree: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone [video, 2 min.]

Donald Trump is extremely bad at making deals by Ezra Klein
Meet the Woman Who Can See With Her Ears by Adam Piore

Carl Sagan Explains How the Ancient Greeks, Figured Out the Earth Isn't Flat, Over 2,000 Years Ago [video, 4 min.]
'Liberal Rednecks' Trae Crowder, Corey Forrester & Drew Morgan Talk Being Liberal in the South [video, 10 min.]

The Culture of Cruelty in Trump's America by Henry A. Giroux
Daniel Dennett's Science of the Soul by Joshua Rothman

Almost Every Single Transitional Fossil Discovered [video, 3 min.]
Scientology Is the McDonalds of Religions [video, 5 min.]

The Danger of Only Seeing What You Already Believe by Derek Beres
Evidence and How it Works by Schadenfreuda from imgur

Best of Founding Fathers Anti-Religion Quotes [video, 2 min.]
"Dr." Sebastian L. v. Gorka, Trump Whisperer | Full Frontal [video, 7 min.]

Critical thinking instruction in humanities reduces belief in pseudoscience by Matt Shipman
The rise of Arab atheism by Brian Whitaker

Bart Campolo: A Life Beyond Belief [audio, 1 hr., 16 min.]
Bill Nye's Open Letter to President Donald Trump [video, 6 min.]

How to Spot Bad Medicine, Pseudoscience, Scams, and Quacks from Relatively Interesting
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Trump's Budget Will Make America Weak, Sick & Stupid by Ed Mazza

A History of the Infinite [audio, 2 hr., 15 min.]
Flying Over Mars [video, 5 min.]

The Trump-Russia Story Has Only Just Begun (To Explode) by Howard Fineman
Why Is the GOP So Excited About Pushing for a Law That Will Make Poor People Get Sicker and Die? by D. Watkins

The best argument to save public television was made in 1969 [video, 7 min.]
Visualization of Quantum Physics [video, 15 min.]

Trump Wants to Hand $54 Billion More to One of the World's Biggest Drivers of Climate Catastrophe by Sarah Lazare
A 'Digital Alchemist' Unravels the Mysteries of Complexity by Natalie Wolchover

President Crazypants | Real Time with Bill Maher [video, 8 min.]
How America's justice system is rigged against the poor [video, 5 min.]

4 Reasons the Trump Administration Is Unspeakably Cruel by Robert Reich
The Fake Freedom of American Health Care by Anu Partanen

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Atheism, Science, and Morality with Adam Carolla [audio, 11 min.]
Checking in with the #Resistance | Full Frontal with Sam Bee [video, 8 min.]

"Oh, I know that": Trump shrugs off the devastating impact repealing Obamacare will have on his base by Sophia Tesfaye
Why Reality Is Not A Video Game — And Why It Matters by Marcelo Gleiser

The incredible inventions of intuitive AI | Maurice Conti [video, 15 min.]
Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes Steve Bannon [video, 26 min.]

Trump's white nationalist allies are 'rotting America from the inside' — just as Russia wants by Travis Gettys
Enough Faith cartoon by The Atheist Pig

The Problem With Prayer [video, 14 min.]
Daniel Dennett: "From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds" [video, 1 hr., 17 min.]

The science of carbon dioxide and climate by Earth Institute
Americans Are Getting More Secular All the Time—Which Is One Reason Why Trump Voters Are So Angry by Amanda Marcotte

Universe Size Comparison 3D [video, 10 min.]
Sam Harris on Trump [video, 15 min.]

Why Are You Still A Christian, After Reading This? b yBen Alonzo
An Ambitious New Program Wants To Support the Democrats' Surge by Issie Lapowsky

Liberal Redneck - Trumpcare [video, 3 min.]
Impeachara ® [video, 2 min.]

Trumpcare at its most basic: What to do about a leader who's gone off? by Jim Hightower
This is how your brain constructs emotions by Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Universe: Theory of Gravity [video, 44 min.]
Alan Watts -- Acceptance of death [video, 4 min.]

The Republican health plan is a huge betrayal of Trump's campaign promises by Matthew Yglesias
Right-wing billionaires want to rewrite our Constitution — and they're frighteningly close to pulling it off by Thom Hartmann

The Natural Origins of Supernatural Experiences [video, 6 min.]
Women Defend Yourselves [video, 10 min.]

Bernie Sanders Smashes GOP's 'Disaster' Heath Care Plan Right to Pieces by Alexandra Rosenmann
Synthetic biology: Enter the living machine by Herbert Sauro

Time-- Neil deGrasse Tyson [video, 14 min.]
How to impeach a president [video, 7 min.]

The Right's Latest Obama 'Scandal' Is Collapsing in Record Time by Heather Digby Parton
Researchers create 'time crystals' envisioned by Princeton scientists from phys.org

The Republican health care bill makes no sense [video, 5 min.]
Isolation - Mind Field [video, 35 min.]

6 ways religion causes more harm than peace by Abiola Atoyebi
How Richard Feynman Convinced The Naysayers 60 Years Ago That Gravitational Waves Are Real by Paul Halpern

Frank Wilczek & Lawrence Krauss : Materiality of a Vacuum [video, Part 1, Part 2.]
Blue Origin Shows off Design of New Glenn Rocket [video, 2 min.]

Science Is Elitist for a Reason by Justin Fox
The dark psychology of dehumanization, explained by Brian Resnick

7 Savage Truths About Religion [video, 12 min.]
The Crisis of Trump's Conspiracy Theories | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann [video, 7 min.]

The Distractor-in-Chief: Trump Counts on Media Falling for His Tweets and Failing to Focus on What Matters by Jane McAlevey
We Need More 'Useless' Knowledge by Robbert Dijkgraaf

What Caused Life's Major Evolutionary Transitions? [video, 9 min.]
I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church [video, 15 min.]

Here's the key to Trump's outrageous lies: He sells them with conviction by Amanda Marcotte
10 things about human evolution (genetics) you should know by Razib Khan

Stephen Greenblatt: The Poem That Dragged Us Out of the Dark Ages [video, 5 min.]
Neil de Grasse Tyson on the afterlife. Very moving [video, 7 min.]

The NASA Rocket Scientist Leaving Mars for Politics by Ed Yong
Trump's Unfounded Claims of a "Nixon/Watergate" Wiretapping Scheme by J. Weston Phippen and Adam Serwer

How Con Artists Manipulate Your Emotions in Genius (and Evil) Ways [video, 8 min.]
When We Reach the "Light Barrier," Space Science and Discovery! [video, 44 min.]

House GOP begin to turn on Trump: Republicans break from party to demand president's tax returns by Sophia Tesfaye
Jeff Sessions's Unforced Error by Adam Serwer

Why Trump is Refusing to Confront Reality | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann [video, 6 min.]
Exploring The Burden Of Proof! [video, 8 min.]

Why Popular Assemblies Sweeping the Country Are Building Blocks of the Resistance by Sarah Lazare
On School Nutrition: How Republicans Create an Alternative Reality by Richard Carrier

The Uncomfortable Effort of Thinking [video, 12 min.]
Betty Bowers: God's Annual Performance Review [video, 4 min.]

A Giant Neuron Has Been Found Wrapped Around a Brain. This could be where consciousness forms by BEC Crew
We're Not Saying It's Aliens Because It's Not Aliens. But Check Out These UFO Data Visualizations by Matt Williams

The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything [video, 1 hr., 23 min.]
How Does Cooperation Evolve? [video, 4 min.]

Reality Check: Wine, Subjectivism and the Fate of Civilization by Dwight Furrow
Investigation Reveals That Wikipedia's Bots Are in a Silent, Never-Ending War With Each Other by Peter Dockrill

Seth Andrews: A Secular State of the Union Address [audio, 44 min.]
Introducing Handle - new research robot from Boston Dynamics [video, 2 min.]

A Physicist Just Explained Why the Large Hadron Collider Disproves the Existence of Ghosts by BEC Crew
The Uses of Outrage by Paul Krugman

A Hierarchy of Infinities [video, 8 min.]
John Oliver - Trump's "Military Operation" [video, 5 min.]

Women of America: We're Going on Strike—Join Us So Trump Will See Our Power by Linda Martín Alcoff, et al
Dear Evangelicals, I Don't Think You Realize How You Sound To Everybody Else by Derek Penwell

Daniel Dennett: "From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds" [video, 1 hr., 17 min.]
Christopher Hitchens - On NPR discussing Thomas Paine [2007] [video, 36 min.]

How to Build a Sustainable Trump Resistance by Les Leopold
The Function of Reason A conversation with Dan Sperber

'Hey Bill Nye, What If the World Were Run by Scientists and Engineers?' [video, 5 min.]
Doctors Opposing Circumcision [video, 9 min.]

Intelligence: a history by Stephen Cave
Michael Moore Issues Terrifying Warning: 'It Will Be as Bad or Worse' Than You Think by Sarah K. Burris

Liberal Redneck - Trump and Trans [video, 3 min.]
Trump Staff Admits to Planting Fake News to Counter Twitter [video, 4 min.]

Has Truth Itself Gone Extinct in the Trump Era? by Marty Kaplan
Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds by Elizabeth Kolbert

Does Religion Have An Evolutionary Explanation? [video, 7 min.]
Adam Ruins Everything - Why Building a Border Wall Makes No Sense [video, 2 min.]

Homeopathic remedies harmed hundreds of babies, families say, as FDA investigated for years by Sheila Kaplan
The white man who pretended to be black by Tim Stanley

The foiled bomb plot in Kansas that didn't make Trump's terror list [video, 6 min.]
The Mistake Trump Can't Ever Walk Back | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann [video, 7 min.]

Why some neuroscientists call consciousness "the c-word" by Yohan J. John
Sitting might not be so bad for you after all by Emmanuel Stamatakis

The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you [video, 6 min.]
Never Fjorget What Happened In Sweden [video, 4 min.]

Focus on temperature ignores other ways to take the pulse of the plane by Emily Shuckburgh, et al
Evolution is not progress by Paul Braterman

Telescopes of Tomorrow [video, 13 min.]
Secularism [video, 15 min.]

The Trump administration's misguided attack on retirement savers by Jared Bernstein
Automatic voter registration isn't a sexy topic — but it's crucial to Democrats and progressives regaining power by Sean McElwee

We are becoming a mindless crowd - Alan Watts [video, 5 min.]
Leah Remini on the Cult of Scientology [video, 8 min.]

The World's Oceans Are Losing Oxygen. Here's Why That's a Big Problem by Melissa Chan
When Science Wins, We Will Be Its Bitch… and Like It by Steve Faktor

TED | Don't fear superintelligent AI [video, 10 min.]
Bill Maher - The Trump Circus [video, 7 min.]

Trump's Russia scandals could be about to get much, much worse by Luca Trenta
The Anti-Trump 'Resistance' in Red States by Clare Foran

The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and Sean Carroll [video, 1 hr., 22 min.]
Optimize Your Brain: The Science of Smarter Eating [video, 7 min.]

Trump's Most Shameful Act So Far by Robert Reich
'Five-dimensional' glass discs can store data for up to 13.8 billion years by James Vincent

Sexual Attraction Is Shaped by Gut Bacteria, Infectious Diseases, and Parasites [video, 6 min.]
An atheist responds to theists' false assumptions [video, 7 min.]

Daniel Dennett: 'I begrudge every hour I have to spend worrying about politics' by Carole Cadwalladr
Making America White Again by Toni Morrison

The Enormous Cost of Trump's War on Immigrants | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann [video, 7 min.]
TED | 3 ways to fix a broken news industry [video, 9 min.]

All models are wrong, some are useful by Hari Balasubramanian
Calculating the Day Humans Began Changing the Earth Forever by Nick Stockton

Kellyanne Conway's interview tricks, explained [video, 7 min.]
Here's How Fake News Works (and How the Internet Can Stop It) [video, 3 min.]

Want to Make a Lie Seem True? Say It Again. And Again. And Again by Emily Dreyfuss
How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder by Philip Ball

Noam Chomsky - When Words Lose Their Meaning [video, 2 min.]
The World Is Slowly Running Out Of Sand [video, 3 min.]

New Flow of Time Theory Says Time Expands Because Space Expands by Samuel Bavor
What Will Sink Our Generation Ships? The Death of Wonder by Kameron Hurley

How Human Consciousness Evolved | Daniel Dennett [video, 7 min.]
Does it take faith to believe in science? Faith vs. Fact [video, 8 min.]

How the New Climate Denial Is Like the Old Climate Denial by Meehan Crist
'He doesn't like this shit': Trump reportedly hates his job and his staff after less than a month by Travis Gettys Trump is circus ringleader in Oz by Wanda LaCroix

Leah Remini on crazy Scientology Ritual [video, 8 min.]
New Rule: Make America Learn Again [video, 5 min.]

Ricky Gervais: If Holy Books & Science Books Disappeared, Only One Would Return with the Same Info by Hemant Mehta
The Contact Hypothesis Offers Hope for the World by Jesse Singal

Putting faith in its place [video, 10 min.]
Spicer's Alternative ABCs [video, 1 min.]

Why upgrading your brain could make you less human by Michael Bess
Trump's faux-pas diplomacy by Tara Palmeri, Kenneth P. Vogel, Josh Dawsey and Nahal Toosi

How Is Circumcision Still A Thing? [video, 6 min.]
Bill Nye Saves The World (trailer) [video, 1 min.]

Think about it: For Republicans, it's eat with Trump, or be eaten by Jeremy Binckes
Education secretary Betsy DeVos wants to 'advance God's kingdom' through US school system by Jon Sharman

Sean Carroll on how time and space began [audio, 27 min.]
How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists [video, 41 min.]

There may be an antidote to politically motivated reasoning. And it's wonderfully simple by Brian Resnick
Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness by Natalie Wolchover

Bernie Sanders: Donald Trump Is 'A Fraud' [video, 8 min.]
The 50 Craziest Things Trump Has Done As President | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann [video, 10 min.]

Legal Scholars: Why Congress Should Impeach Donald Trump by James C. Nelson and John Bonifaz
Neil deGrasse Tyson Addresses The Current Scientific Illiteracy Crisis by Johny

Jefferson's Wall: Church and State [video, 17 min.]
FFRF Sam and Andrew discuss the Johnson Amendment [video, 4 min.]

This is your brain on fake news: what's behind the human willingness to swallow "alternative facts" by Noah Charney
Carrie Jenkins makes the philosophical case for polyamory by Moira Weigel

Sam Harris | Science: The Enemy of Dogmatism [video, 23 min.]
What Caused Life's Major Evolutionary Transitions? [video, 9 min.]

New results from CERN could fill one of the biggest gaps in the Standard Model of physics by BEC Crew
There's a fake populist in the White House — and real populism is the only force that can defeat him by Conor Lynch

Why Sleep is critical for the Body and Brain | Science of Sleep [video, 14 min.]
Sam Harris: Winning the War of Ideas | Real Time with Bill Maher [video, 13 min.]

5 Simple Rebuttals to the Common Arguments Against the Value of Protesting by Adam Johnson
The most complex problem in physics could be solved by machines with brains by Roger Melko

Karl Pilkington & Ricky Gervais hilarious interview. Sausages in the toaster? [video, 22 min.]
America's Sources of Immigration (1850-Today) [video, 4 min.]

Science doesn't care if you believe in it or not by Mark McCaughrean
The Big Picture by Sean Carroll– the meaning of life, the universe and everything book review by Tim Radford

The Map of Mathematics [video, 11 min.]
Ricky Gervais And Colbert Go Head-To-Head On Religion [video, 5 min.]

Richard Feynman on the Universal Responsibility of Scientists by Maria Popova
Facts are the reason science is losing during the current war on reason by Mark Carnall

"Power Breath" Is Better Than Deep Breathing for Relaxing Mind and Body [video, 2 min.]
How should the media cover a White House that isn't afraid to lie? [video, 5 min.]

Could we have LIMITLESS energy in 13 years? Doughnut-shaped device to 'put fusion power into the grid' by 2030 by Shivali Best
Where America's Terrorists Actually Come From by Uri Friedman

Persistence, Not Genius, Is the Reason We Know Einstein's Name [video, 5 min.]
No Idea is Sacred ! [video, 7 min.]

Trump makes history: Poll finds President Trump has become an unpopular president in record time by Matthew Rozsa
Plastic Words are Hollow Shells for Rigid Ideas: The Ever-Expanding Language of Tyranny by Jalees Rehman

An Atheist Debunks the Fine Tuning Fallacy [video, 9 min.]
Liberal Redneck - Muslim Ban [video, 3 min.]

America's Founding Fathers Warned Us About Men Like Donald Trump by Jim Sleeper
How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder by Phillip Ball

Brian Cox | Science Matters: Climate Change [video, 1 hr., 28 min.]
Lest We Forget: The Big Lie Behind the Rise of Trump [video, 23 min.]

Trump Is Putting America on a Path to Warp-Speed National Decline by D. Watkins
Trump's Muslim Ban Is Culmination of War on Terror Mentality but Still Uniquely Shameful by Glenn Greenwald

Oliver Sacks on Ripe Bananas [video, 6 min.]
The leisurely pace of light speed [video, 45 min.]

Calling Your Elected Officials: Breaking it Down and Making it Easier by Greta Christina
Trump's Fake Populist Grandstanding Hides Familiar Corporate Money Game by Elizabeth Schulte

Donald Trump's conflicts of interest span the globe [video, 5 min.]
The Most Powerful Plant on Earth? | The Hemp Conspiracy [video, 11 min.]

We May Be Closer Than We Thought to Dangerous Climate Thresholds by John Abraham
The Parasite That Compels Other Parasites to Shove Their Heads Into Holes by Ed Yong

Bill Maher on Donald Trump [video, 5 min.]
"Birth control is against my religion..." (Emily Galati) [video, 3 min.]

This granular life by Carlo Rovelli
Donald Trump, Imperialist: He Longs to Build Up Our Military and Then Use It by Heather Digby Parton

Can an Atheist be President? [video, 2 min.]
Waking Up With Sam Harris - What is True? (with Jordan B. Peterson) [audio, 2 hr., 16 min.]

Einstein's wonderful letter to David Hilbert: A message for our times by Wavefunction
Donald Trump is already trying to muzzle leakers — but government employees have broad free speech rights by Amanda Marcotte

Lawrence Krauss — Lecture about Atheism [video, 1 hr., 2 min.]
See the 1,000-Year-Old Windmills Still in Use Today [video, 3 min.]

Organisms created with synthetic DNA pave way for entirely new life forms by Ian Sample
Trump's plan to slash 75 percent of regulations will come at the cost of the environment by Sophia Tesfaye

The History Of 100 Years Of Women's Health Care At Planned Parenthood [video, 7 min.]
Ali G Show - Religion | Uncensored 2012 [video, 4 min.]

Harvard Researchers Have Found the Source of Human Consciousness by Philip Perry
How Did Life Begin? Dividing Droplets Could Hold the Answer by Natalie Wolchover

Sexual Attraction Is Shaped by Gut Bacteria, Infectious Diseases, and Parasites [video, 6 min.]
What Happens When You Raise Kids With No Religion? [video, 8 min.]

Congratulations, America — you did it! An actual fascist is now your official president by Chauncey DeVega
No sign of seasonal dark matter after four years of searching by Jennifer Ouellette

Trump's Presidency Will Test American Citizens on the World Stage [video, 6 min.]
Season Premiere: January 20, 2017 | Real Time with Bill Maher [video, 57 min.]

Is the Default Mode of the Brain to Suffer? by Drake Baer
The Threat Embedded in Trump's Angry Address by Jefferson Morley

A Hierarchy of Infinities [video, 8 min.]
The Dark Ages Complete Documentary [video, 1 hr., 31 min.]

It's Time to Stand Up for the Climate—and for Civilization by Bill McKibben
Six cosmic catastrophes that could wipe out life on Earth by Daniel Brown

Nova Science: A new Discovery of the Universe Documentary [video, 54 min.]
Not Here for Your Entertainment [video, 3 min.]

Bayesian Counter-Apologetics: Ten Arguments for God Destroyed by Richard Carrier
From diet to blood pressure – it's not just chromosomes that help determine the sex of a baby by Kristien Boelaert

TED | How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control [video, 16 min.]
Fake Book Covers on the Subway [video, 3 min.]

GOP's Obamacare-repeal: Congress' budget office suggests 32 million Americans will lose health insurance by Simon Maloy
Voter Suppression Works Too Well by Gabrielle Gurley

Bill Maher talks about Islam on Charlie Rose [video, 6 min.]
Nothing happens for a reason (Gods plan) [video, 7 min.]

Michael Moore Backs up John Lewis With 6 Reasons Trump Is an 'Illegitimate President' by Eric W. Dolan
Massive scientific report on marijuana confirms medical benefits by Beth Mole

Christopher Hitchens | Islam is Obscene Nonsense [video, 3 min.]
George Carlin | Swearing on the Bible [video, 4 min.]

The Case Against Dark Matter by Natalie Wolchover
The death rate gap between urban and rural America is getting wider by Sarah Frostenson

TED | The next step in nanotechnology [video, 10 min.]
Ricky Gervais | Challenging Belief [video, 10 min.]

Don't You Dare Try to Teach Science Without Building Models by Rhett Allain
Sugar, explained by Julia Belluz and Javier Zarracina

Gods and Celebrities: Do Both Obsessions Stem from the Same Impulse? [video, 3 min.]
The Magic of Making Sound [video, 7 min.]

Michael Moore Dubs Trump the 'Godfather' of Fake News, Urges Publishers Not to Back Down by Alexandra Rosenmann
Let them call us rebels: We are all the heirs of Thomas Paine by Harvey J. Kaye

Dave Allen on Religion [video, 6 min.]
United States of Hate: Muslims Under Attack BBC Documentary 2016 [video, 56 min.]

A modest alternative to Obamacare (satire) by Wanda LaCroix
This Illusion Shows How Your Peripheral Vision Is Playing Tricks on You by Cari Romm

Professor who called Trump election now predicts impeachment [video, 9 min.]
Leah Remini says Tom Cruise is 'brainwashed' by Scientology [video, 3 min.]

Donald Trump, the Dunning-Kruger President by Jessica Pressler
Escape Artist Harry Houdini Was an Ingenious Inventor, He Just Didn't Want Anybody to Know by Jackson Landers

The Meaning of Life - Richard Dawkins and Ricky Gervais [video, 10 min.]
The agony of trying to unsubscribe [video, 8 min.]

Want to fix gun violence in America? Go local by Aliza Aufrichtig, Lois Beckett, Jan Diehm and Jamiles Lartey
Children Don't Come Cheap: Cost of Raising One Hits $233,610 by Alan Bjerga

Meryl Streep Speech The Golden Globes 2017 [video, 6 min.]
Richard Dawkins take on intelligent design [video, 4 min.]

A New War on Birth Control: Trump's Victory has Empowered the Sex Scolds by Amanda Marcotte
These Simple Laws Explain How the World Works by Simon Worrall

A Final Warning from George Orwell [video, 2 min.]
Still Supporting Donald Trump? This Message Is For You | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann [video, 8 min.]

The Atlantic Ocean and an Actual Debate in Climate Science by Robinson Meyer
Here's why sugar could be the world's most popular drug by Gary Taubes

Lawrence M. Krauss (2014) "Universe from Nothing!" [Full] [video, 1 hr., 16 min.]
The secrets of Mozart's "Magic Flute" [video, 6 min.]

The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics by Steven Weinberg
Donald Trump's glorious victory for anti-intellectualism: "Drain the swamp" just meant the eggheads by Conor Lynch

Pulse [video, 5 min.]
The Late Show Presents: Trump And Cover [video, 1 min.]

President-Elect Trump Is Historically Unpopular; His Press Coverage Should Reflect That by Eric Boehlert
It may not feel like anything to be an alien by Susan Schneider

Bill Oddie's BankWatch [video, 4 min.]
Pissing off shitty white people - Liberal Redneck [video, 3 min.]

Closing the orgasm gap by Erin Coulehan
In the name of humanity we refuse to accept a facist America from refusefascism.org

Max Cooper - Order From Chaos (official video by Maxime Causeret) [video, 4 min.]
Bill Burr's Solution To Environmental Problems [video, 3 min.]

The Long, Slow Death of Religion by James A Haught
What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? from Edge

Richard Dawkins on the Difference Between Religious and Secular Morality [video, 4 min.]
How We Lie to Ourselves [video, 6 min.]

Mike Pence Is A Theocrat. His Christian Supremacist Followers Seek To Take Over America. Seriously by ursulafaw
'A lie, is a lie, is a lie': Dan Rather shreds WSJ editor for reluctance to call out Trump's bullshit by Tom Boggioni

Sarah Haider | Hypocrisy & Theocracy [video, 8 min.]
Brilliant Accidents [video, 4 min.]

Protest like your basic rights depend on it – because power is taken, never given by Jamia Wilson
Issues facing the Mormon Church: Mormonism's Lost Items by Fred Pages

A Brilliant Madness: A Genius Descends into Madness [video, 55 min.]
The Best Parallel Universe Documentary [video, 41 min.]

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin
Was 2016 just 1938 all over again? by Julie Gottlieb

TED | How we explore unanswered questions in physics [video, 16 min.]
How We Speak Reveals What We Think, with Steven Pinker [video, 50 min.]

Apocalypse tomorrow: Who is predicting the end of the world in 2017? by Shane Croucher
A new brain study sheds light on why it can be so hard to change someone's political beliefs by Brian Resnick

12 Cognitive Biases Explained - How to Think Better and More Logically Removing Bias [video, 10 min.]
Deepak Chopra Absolutely Destroyed By Sam Harris [video, 15 min.]