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Richard Dawkins Web Articles

Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible - Richard Dawkins - The Observer 19/05/2012
Michael Gove, the education secretary, thinks there should be a copy of the King James Bible in every state school. Photograph: Jim Corwin/Getty Images For some reason the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK) was not approached for a donation in support of Michael Gove's plan to put a King James Bible in every state school. We would ce […]
Live Slow, Die Old - Ed Yong - TheScientist 18/05/2012
Ancient bacteria living in deep-sea sediments are alive—but with metabolisms so slow that it’s hard to tell. In the northern Pacific Ocean, buried 20 meters below the ocean floor, are bacteria that live life in the extreme slow lane. They have not received any fresh sources of food since they were buried 86 million years ago, when dinosaurs still walked the […]
Group finds circadian clock common to almost all life forms - Bob Yirka - PhysOrg.com 18/05/2012
The peroxiredoxin active site is highly conserved in all domains of life. Image: Nature (2012) doi:10.1038/nature11088 Phys.org) -- A group of biology researchers, led by Akhilesh Reddy from Cambridge University have found an enzyme that they believe serves as a circadian clock that operates in virtually all forms of life. In a paper published in the journal […]
Texas's war on history - Katherine Stewart - The Guardian 18/05/2012
Christian-nationalist zealots are trying to rewrite US history, airbrush slavery and enshrine creationism in Texas schools Texas Governor Rick Perry famously dismissed evolution as 'a theory that's out there', during his failed run for the GOP presidential nomination. Photograph: David J Phillip/AP Don McLeroy, chairman of the Texas State Boar […]
The Right’s Righteous Frauds - Frank Bruni - The New York Times 17/05/2012
Say what you will about Bristol Palin, she’s a quick study. It didn’t take her long to master the ways of her elders on the censorious right and decide that personal circumstance and past error needn’t prevent someone from claiming righteous leadership. Uncle Rush must be proud. Soon after President Obama stated support for same-sex marriage, Bristol publicl […]
Just Say Yes…To Sexist Stereotyping? - Katherine Stewart - Ms. blog 17/05/2012
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Research Report: How Secular Humanists (and Everyone Else) Subsidize Religion in the United States - Ryan T. Cragun, Stephanie Yeager, and Desmond Vega - SecularHumanism.org 16/05/2012
The home in the photo (right) is the $1.75 million mansion of the Reverend Randy White, the former head pastor of Without Walls International Church in Tampa, Florida. While some people may be bothered by the fact that there are pastors who live in multimillion dollar homes, this is old news to most. But here is what should bother you about these expensive h […]
Want People to Trust Atheists More? Remind Them of Cops and Courts, Says New Study - Hemant Mehta - Friendly Atheist 16/05/2012
Is there a way to get religious believers to trust atheists? We already know we’re the least trusted minority group out there — can we change that? Researchers Will M. Gervais and Ara Norenzayan of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver are back and they believe there is a way. In the May, 2012 edition of the journal Psychological Science, they lay ou […]
Nonbelievers flex their political muscles - Kimberly Winston - Religion News Service 16/05/2012
One of the biggest growth areas in political activism around religion is coming from an unlikely source: the nonreligious. And it's happening far from the marbled corridors of power in the nation's capital. The Secular Coalition for America, an umbrella organization that represents 11 nontheistic groups including American Atheists and the American […]
"Map of Life" Shows the Location of All Organisms, Large and Small - Rebecca Boyle - PopSci 16/05/2012
Ever wonder exactly where grizzly bears live on this continent? Or where you might find Myotis lucifungus, the fuzzy, adorable little brown bat that is currently threatened with extinction because of white-nose syndrome? Now you can track them on Google Maps, thanks to a new program that aims to plot the location of every single living thing on Earth. It […]

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RNA breakthrough transforms idea of gene control 18/05/2012
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Why the dino-dolphins got the bends 18/05/2012
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Number of asteroids that pose risk to Earth is doubled 18/05/2012
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Dear Heartland, Stop using Arthur Robinson's Trick to Hide the Incline 18/05/2012
Climate change is debated in letters to the editor of hometown newspapers all over the world. In the Las Cruces, New Mexico, Sun-News, one reader recently cited "a 1996 paper by Kiegwin (sic) in Science which showed that, despite the present having a CO2 concentration of 388 PPM, the present temperature is cooler than the average of the last 3,000 yea […]
Climate Change Consequences - Often Unexpected 16/05/2012
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New research from last week 19/2012 15/05/2012
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CRUTEM4: A detailed look 15/05/2012
CRUTEM is a version of the surface temperature record based on weather station data spanning the last one and a half centuries. It is produced by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, and provides the land component of the widely quoted HadCRUT global temperature record. Version 3 of this dataset (CRUTEM3) was the current version […]
2012 SkS Weekly Digest #19 14/05/2012
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Analysis of Speed of Greenland Glaciers Gives New Insight for Rising Sea Level 14/05/2012
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Arctic Winter Analysis 12/05/2012
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Tom Harris' Carleton University Climate Misinformation Class 10/05/2012
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Turbines in Texas mix up nighttime heat 10/05/2012
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