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 […]
By Tarikul Islam (New York University) This past semester I audited a popular NYU class called Baseball as a Road to God. The course used classic literatures to connect baseball […]
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 […]
It was great to wear both my scientist and activist hats at the same time when I provided testimony against an anti-abortion bill in South Carolina. South Carolina introduced a […]
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 […]
A few posts ago, I argued for the importance of widespread scientific literacy. I claimed that “scientific literacy—in conjunction with political, mathematical, and other literacies—is a civic responsibility”. For symmetry’s […]
The saying goes: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Rather than a plea to protect infants, the idiom is understood to mean: “don’t reject the essential along with […]
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 […]
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 […]
Applied Sentience 