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FEATURED ARTICLES Court will wait to hear Conn. graduation appeal San Jose Mercury News ... the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut and Americans United for Separation of Church and State warning they'd sue to keep the events secular. ... http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15295238?nclick_check=1 ATHEISM The players with God on their side Times Online Even though he is now an atheist, he is adamant that faith was pivotal to his success. “Believing in something beyond the self can have a hugely beneficial ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/international/article7150133.ece Freethinkers believe Chicago open to gospel of reason Chicago Breaking News - Tribune (blog) When the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign and American Humanist Association wanted to spark a public conversation last spring about the origin of religion, ... http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/06/freethinkers-think-chicago-open-to-gospel-of-reason.html BOOKS, FILM, THEATRE, TV, YOU TUBE Journalist delivers 'compellingly odd memoir' Dayton Daily News Hitchens is an atheist and this manifesto detailing his beliefs, or lack thereof, became a huge best-seller. Now Hitchens, who recently turned 60, ... http://www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyle/journalist-delivers-compellingly-odd-memoir-759673.html Was Christopher Hitchens a Cuban Revolutionary? Miami New Times (blog) But what's the man who wrote the atheist manifesto God Is Not Great doing reading in a temple? The reading starts at 7:30 pm, and Temple Judea is located at ... http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/06/the_daily_show_with_jon.php Here's the Hitch: Christopher Hitchens writes a memoir The Canadian Press His creed, if any, is atheism. In his memoir, Hitchens accepts the honour of being associated with such prominent nonbelievers as Richard Dawkins and Daniel ... http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h0T5d1MIx-18bHIgypt80pLe4Cxg Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception Exchange Morning Post As founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer has exposed fallacies behind intelligent design, 9/11 conspiracies, the low-carb craze, ... http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2010/week24/Tuesday/061509.htm EVOLUTION, CREATIONISM, I.D. New school standards will keep focus on evolution North Platte Telegraph Intelligent design, meantime, would remain the province of philosophers and theologians. Although advocates of intelligent design enjoyed fleeting success ... http://www.nptelegraph.com/articles/2010/06/13/news/state/60006578.txt California Science Center to Pay Attorneys' Fees and Settle Open Records ... PR Newswire (press release) Darwin's Dilemma investigates the intelligent design of organisms during the "Cambrian Explosion" more than 500 million years ago. ... http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/california-science-center-to-pay-attorneys-fees-and-settle-open-records-lawsuit-by-intelligent-design-group-96307034.html Evolution in Nebraska National Center for Science Education ... Board of Education say they're not aware of any effort by board members or the public to include intelligent design in Nebraska's new science standards. ... http://ncse.com/news/2010/06/evolution-nebraska-005573 SCIENCE Zooming in on an Infant Solar System: For the First Time, Astronomers Have Observed Solar Systems in the Making in Great Detail ScienceDaily (June 12, 2010) — A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100611093611.htm NASA Helps in Upcoming Asteroid Mission Homecoming ScienceDaily (June 12, 2010) — The space and astronomy worlds have June 13 circled on the calendar... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100610140127.htm Tiny Insect Brains Capable of Huge Feats ScienceDaily (June 12, 2010) — Insects may have tiny brains the size of a pinhead, but the latest research from the University of Adelaide shows just how clever they really are... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100611093615.htm NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Fires Past Record for Speed Change ScienceDaily (June 11, 2010) — Deep in the heart of the asteroid belt, on its way to the first of the belt's two most massive inhabitants, NASA's ion-propelled Dawn spacecraft has eclipsed the record for velocity change produced by a spacecraft's engines... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100610140224.htm 'Dark Pulse Laser' Produces Bursts of ... Almost Nothing ScienceDaily (June 11, 2010) — In an advance that sounds almost Zen, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a new type of pulsed laser that excels at not producing light. The new device generates sustained streams of "dark pulses" -- repeated dips in light intensity -- which is the opposite of the bright bursts in a typical pulsed laser... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609171804.htm First-Time Parents' Daily Sleep Duration Predicts Their Relationship Satisfaction ScienceDaily (June 11, 2010) — First-time parents' relationship satisfaction is related to the amount of sleep they get while caring for an infant, according to a research abstract presented June 9, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609083227.htm Sharks Can Really Sniff out Their Prey, and This Is How They Do It ScienceDaily (June 10, 2010) — It's no secret that sharks have a keen sense of smell and a remarkable ability to follow their noses through the ocean, right to their next meal. Now, researchers reporting online on June 10th in Current Biology, have figured out how the sharks manage to keep themselves on course... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100610125617.htm Exoplanet Caught on the Move ScienceDaily (June 10, 2010) — For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves from one side of its host star to the other. The planet has the smallest orbit so far of all directly imaged exoplanets, lying almost as close to its parent star as Saturn is to the Sun. Scientists believe that it may have formed in a similar way to the giant planets in the Solar System... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100610141034.htm SEPARATION CHURCH / STATE IRS received complaint about Rapid City pastor endorsing Howie Rapid City Journal Americans United for the Separation of Church and State sent a letter Thursday to the IRS, asking it to investigate the Rev. H. Wayne Williams and Liberty ... http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_b83cc2fe-74e4-11df-804c-001cc4c002e0.html Group: Charter school still violating constitution Janesville Gazette Moore noted in an earlier letter to Americans United for Separation of Church and State that the school is housed in a connected but separate building, ... http://gazettextra.com/news/2010/jun/11/group-charter-school-still-violating-constitution/ Idaho Charter School Appeals Religious Text Ruling Education Week News But she also added: "The Idaho Constitution and Idaho courts are consistently more restrictive with respect to separation of church and state in connection ... http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/06/14/360996idcharterschoolfederallawsuit_ap.html School trades evangelism access for shoes, school supplies USA Today Combee Elementary School in Lakeland, Fla., where separation of church and state is clearly not on the social studies curriculum, has been "adopted" by ... http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2010/06/souls-for-shoes-separation-of-church-and-state-baptist-church/1 MISCELLANEOUS 6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning Associated Press MONROE, Ohio (AP) — A six-story statue of Jesus Christ was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, leaving only a blackened steel skeleton and pieces of foam that were scooped up by curious onlookers Tuesday... http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20100615/63d8ef7f-6ce3-4da8-9b6b-521dd01fe198&sms_ss=email | ||
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