Clay Farris Naff
Posts by Clay Farris Naff (page 7)
It’s that Guy! An Interview with 2010 Humanist of the Year Bill Nye
Bill Nye, best known for his fast-taking, high-energy "Bill Nye the Science Guy" TV persona, is on a mission to reach young people through... Read More
The Humanevangelist: Conservative Catholics Wonder, Who Will Rid Us of this Turbulent Pope?
The charming thing about the conservative sense of fairness is its flexibility. For conservative Catholics, the pope is the absolute and infallible head of... Read More
Is There Such a Thing As an Anti-Science Left? An Interview with Eugenie Scott
Clay Farris Naff’s interview with Eugenie Scott, former executive director of the National Center for Science Education and recipient of the 2014 American Humanist... Read More
Laughter and Tears for Science Education: An Interview with Eugenie Scott
If advocate and anthropologist Eugenie Scott hadn’t spent so much of her life as executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE)... Read More
The Humanevangelist: Hello Drones; So Long Safety or Privacy
Years ago on a hot summer’s afternoon in Virginia, my brother and I entered a Civil War-era graveyard to do a little amateur historical... Read More
The Humanevangelist: Humanists against Human Nature
What a summer. The worst of human nature is bustin’ out all over. Just when you thought the Middle East couldn’t get any worse,... Read More
The “Disruptive Technologist”
Clay Farris Naff: You say you want to create a machine that feels. Yet, surely, some machines already possess awareness. (A thermostat is aware... Read More