The ticking hands of the death clock care nothing for any plans we have. The hands remain indifferent to those things that we might yet achieve. They have not one shred of sympathy for the grieving loved...
I'm sure you've heard that old expression, "Nero fiddled while Rome burned." We now know this is more than likely not true, but there is metaphorical fiddling taking place as we do nothing to combat...
My ex-husband didn't have third molars, also known as wisdom teeth. Dentists told him that this happens in about 35 percent of the population and that he was "evolution in process." I said it just...
On May 12, 2015, a man named Kenneth Smith of Harpers Ferry, W. Va. took it upon himself to file a lawsuit?naming?the Jefferson County Board of Education, W.Va. State Superintendent Michael Martirano, National Institutes of...
A recent study by the World Health Organization reached a startling conclusion--the active ingredient in Roundup, the nation's most popular weed killer, might put farm workers at increased risk for cancer.
The study, published by the...
Scientists examining a femur of a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex found that the T-Rex was a mother to be. This is a big find since scientists have trouble determining the sex of these dinosaurs whose bones...
Idiot Creationist, and RWNJ Ken Ham has built a ridiculous "museum" in Kentucky. It is a supposedly life-size version of Noah's Ark from the Bible stories. Ham is a young Earth creationist (he thinks the...
Climate change denier Tom Harris, Executive Director of the?International Climate Science Coalition?(ICSC),?says experts fear?they will be labeled as climate change deniers if they speak out. In fact, according to Harris, philosophers and scholars aren't coming...
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Did you know that a Black woman named Katherine Johnson calculated the paths of NASA's rocket ships using a slide rule and a pencil? We all need to know about Katherine Johnson. Fortunately, a book...
Italian neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero, is initiating a medical feat that was once delegated to fiction novels: a complete human head transplant. As in, he's essentially slicing someone's head off with a nanoblade, transplanting it to...
After 36 years of being lost, the patent for the Wright Brothers' flying machine has finally been recovered. To be fair, nobody realized it was missing until it couldn't be located in the “treasure” vault...
I don't consider myself a particularly squeamish person. I'm a mom, after all. Not much I haven't seen! But as a teenage nurse's aide another lifetime ago, I passed out while watching a breast tumor...
Have you ever peed in the ocean? Don't feel obligated to answer that. Suffice to say that most people who have spent any time in the ocean have done so. Reactions is an educational YouTube...
As a member of the Christian Left, one of my biggest frustrations is science deniers.?It's positively maddening to try to talk to these people. Not all Christians are science deniers, of course. As with any...
PLOS ONE?(May 27th, 2015), An early hominin skull?was discovered in Spain's Sima de los Huesos cave indicating what some have called the first recorded murder. ?The skull,?dating back to at least 430,000 years, is most...
As we have all long suspected, Ted Cruz really is as stupid as we always assumed. So says a group of scientists who evaluated some of the preposterous claims the Texas Senator has made regarding...
Many Christians believe that homosexuality in the human species goes against nature. Anti-LGBT groups say marriage should only occur between a man and a woman. After the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage legal, Republicans have...
For years, the state of Alabama has had the incredibly dubious distinction of being the only state in the country that requires textbooks for students to carry a "warning label" about evolution. The label warns...
The latest Christian group to try and discredit the theory of evolution--and failing miserably--is the Jehovah's Witnesses, who posted a video to the Jehovah’s Witnesses Broadcasting’s Watchtower Society website claiming that science in no way proves...
