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In this issue...
FEATURED FREETHINKER
Canadian-American actor and musician, Keanu Reeves
ESTABLISHING FREETHOUGHT GROUPS
Being able to network with others who have had similar experiences can often lead to solutions or ideas for solutions that can reduce stress. Even if there is no direct solution, just discussing the problem with people who think like you do, can provide…
EVENING WITHOUT ANGELS
Poem by renowned American humanist poet, Wallace Stevens
IMAGINARY CRIMES
One of the defining attributes of all the world’s religions through history is that they create imaginary crimes; that is, arbitrary rules the obeying of which helps no person, and the breaking of which hurts no person. In the beginning, many religions start off as …
SECULAR SPIRITUALITY
It is the journey of a neuroscientist who experiences a stroke and loses the faculties of the left side of her brain because of a hemorrhage. She lost her mental functions within a few hours but it took her a few years to regain them. It is a story from a breakdown to a breakthrough…
NEW ATHEISM: POSITIVE ATHEISM
There still exists the perception, especially in the United States, that Atheism is evil, that Atheists have horns and tails, eat children for lunch and are able to cast spells. In order to alleviate these fears, Atheists need to come out of the closet, as did…
WHAT’S STEMMING FROM ALL THIS RESEARCH?
Every once in a while a confluence of events creates a striking ethical watershed. Canadian scientists announced this week that they have discovered a way to propagate stem cells without resorting to infusing them with viruses, thus removing the need to use embryonic stems cells, favored to this point because…
TEEN BIRTH RATES HIGHER IN VERY RELIGIOUS STATES
Mississippi topped the list for conservative religious beliefs and teen birth rates, according to the study results, which will be detailed in a forthcoming issue of the journal Reproductive Health.
NANOTECHNOLOGY WILL REVOLUTIONIZE HUMANITY
I find nothing noble or proper in the retention of our imperfections, particularly when it comes to diseases and the ravages of aging. Ethicists should be concerned about those actions that are humane and good rather than those actions that infringe on…
WHAT’S WRONG WITH EQUAL TIME LAWS?
Consider a parallel: the controversy over the occurrence of the Holocaust. The vast majority of historians consider it the undeniable truth that Nazi Germany instituted a program of deliberate genocide that resulted in the deaths of between five and six million Jewish people. However, a small, vocal minority insists that this evidence is...
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