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 every available medium. Following his hotly contested debate with creationist Ken... Read More

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 Association Lifetime Achievement Award, continues below. Click here to read part... Read More

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) leading a national campaign to defend the integrity of science in... Read More

Amy Monsky is the president of Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, an organization of atheists, agnostics, and other freethinkers centered in the Charleston area along the coast of South Carolina. We spoke to her recently... Read More

Clay Farris Naff: You say you want to create a machine that feels. Yet, surely, some machines already possess awareness. (A thermostat is aware of the ambient temperature, for example.) What’s the difference between awareness... Read More

Clay Farris Naff: No one has yet produced a testable and accepted theory of consciousness. Yet, you and others seem confident that a working copy of the contents of a human brain could, in principle,... Read More

2011 Humanist of the Year Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s latest book, Plato at the Googleplex, is audacious in conception, intellectually stimulating, and an altogether fascinating read. In it, Goldstein ushers the ancient philosopher into the twenty-first... Read More