By Lukeman Adams Humanist Service Corps Volunteer It is lovely seeing seven different people from different social, racial, and geographical backgrounds working collectively for a common purpose. People across Ghana and the […]
I’ve been working as a lifeguard every summer for the last five summers. It gives me a lot of idle time to think about things. It also gives the sun […]
I love taking common platitudes from rationality and pointing out the exceptions. Why? Because I hate when a short catchy maxim is used incorrectly to belittle others’ rational arguments. The irony […]
In my last article I discussed the popular rule “absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence,” often associated with the argument from ignorance. However, this popular mantra, and almost every […]
TL;DR: There is no Royal Road. In his three recent and awesome posts on intelligence, Scott Alexander describes what it’s like to grow up intellectually lopsided (high verbal IQ and […]
In America, and indeed worldwide, death is an abstract that lingers at the periphery of waking life until its reality comes crashing down. Though many of us see depictions of […]
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE INTERSTELLAR. I just got back from watching Christopher Nolan’s new movie Interstellar in glorious, eye-popping IMAX. I’m really torn right now. I’ve written and […]
For the last eighty or so years, science fiction writers have been the doormen to a strange and exciting universe replete with extra dimensions, elementary particles, time-travel, intergalactic wars, speculative […]
Two weeks ago was the Yale Humanist Community’s first ever Humanist Haven, a monthly nonreligious community gathering. The first speaker at the first meeting was Dr. Laurie Santos, a professor […]
It’s not everyday you get to meet someone like Rutgers professor Julien Musolino. In our age of specialization, Julien is part of a small (but growing!) cadre of thinkers whose […]
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