Another Species Disappears and We’re the Reason

Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros on the planet, is gone. He died at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya last week due to complications associated with a severe leg infection. He was forty-five-years... Read More
Zoos & Aquariums: Getting in Touch with Nature through Others’ Captivity

Since the 2013 documentary Blackfish, about Seaworld and the controversy over an orca it held, many of us are familiar with the ethics of keeping cetaceans in captivity. The public outrage inspired by the documentary... Read More
A Golden Age of Science

The other day I happened to watch a video of the Young Earth creationist Ken Hovind asserting that there is no known way the universe can generate uranium. Of course, he rushes through a litany... Read More
Soft on STDs

A recent report from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that this country saw a record number of cases of sexually transmitted disease (STDs) in 2016: more than two million new cases of gonorrhea,... Read More
The Curious Case of the Missing—and Reappearing—Government Climate Change Data

Last week climate scientist Peter Gleick reported that the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Science Explorer—a taxpayer-funded online database for the public to browse USGS science programs and activities—had lost 5,516 formerly searchable climate science... Read More
Harvard Humanist of the Year Issues Call for Facilitators to Lead SMART Recovery Meetings

A quarter century ago, renowned humanists such as Albert Ellis, Michael Werner, Joe Gerstein (pictured here) and many others played an integral role in the founding of SMART Recovery—a secular, science-based, self-empowering mutual support program... Read More
Between a Creationist’s Rocks and a Hard Place

A creationist just sued the US Department of the Interior and won. Andrew Snelling, is a geologist (awarded a PhD by the University of Sydney in 1982) and the director of research at Ken Ham’s... Read More