If you have survived the digital media industry for a decent number of years, you begin understand how the not-so-ethical business works. The successful players generally make the majority of their revenue from repackaging viral media trends and gaming facebook algorithms, while ...read more
Whether or not you agree with Richard Dawkins' views on Islam, religion or the meaning of life, you have to give it to the Oxford professor -- he cuts to the chase like no other and is supremely confident in his world view. Here he was disproving the notion of God in 5 easy ...read more
It is entirely possible that the theory of evolution will change or be considered incomplete in time to come. It is also possible that the entire theory may be overthrown and replaced with completely different understanding of how life evolved and continues to evolve on planet ...read more
Update: The chief source for this article was a report on March 2 by WRAL in North Carolina. Around the same time the below article was published on March 3, The New York Times reported that the motive(s) for the Chapel Hill murders "went beyond a parking dispute," though it ...read more
In the span of about a decade, Richard Dawkins has elicited enough criticism to fill a small library. He's been called "sexist," "racist," "irresponsible," "divisive," and "not a scientist," among other names. But of all the bizarre critiques blown in Dawkins' direction, none -- ...read more
The level of dishonesty to which some critics of Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and other atheists critical of Islam have stooped wouldn’t be so discouraging were it not for the eagerness with which the deceit is received and proliferated. There is no shortage of examples, especially ...read more
Last month, several organizations teamed up to start Openly Secular -- a campaign meant to increase acceptance of secularists and freethinkers in society. One of those groups is the Richard Dawkins Foundation, and on Thursday, Dawkins took to twitter to give a boost to a simple ...read more
Quite possibly, the last minority group in the United States that it's socially acceptable to bash openly with abandon is the secular crowd. This would include atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and other Americans who either don't believe in a god, or those who do, but think ...read more
President Obama touched off an epic conservative conniption last week when, in his speech detailing his strategy to destroy ISIS, he said that the terrorist army that calls itself the "Islamic State" is "not Islamic." A few days on, though, and even leftists like Bill Maher, Sam ...read more
Biologist Richard Dawkins sent twitter into a tizzy on Wednesday in response to a woman’s hypothetical dilemma about whether to abort a fetus with Down syndrome. In typical Dawkins fashion, he gave a straightforward reply: Let's state the obvious for a moment: twitter is not ...read more
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. - Richard Dawkins on Twitter Generally speaking, I'm a big fan of Richard Dawkins. I've read several of his books and listened to many of his ...read more
By Ben Cohen: I had a conversation with a conservative friend over the weekend about the different economic philosophies being practiced in the US and Europe, and disagreed on which one is working. My friend argued that the only way out of the gigantic mess in Europe was to ...read more
In response to the Conservative government's slashing of funding for the humanities, a group of British academics are creating a privately funded university to breathe life back into the disciplines they believe have been overshadowed by science and technical based degrees. ...read more
