Adam Lee
Big Think Contributor, Daylight Atheism Blog
Recent Activity
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As you may be aware, this past Sunday was Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, in which freethinkers are exhorted to draw pictures of Mohammed to reaffirm their right to free expression in the face of Islamist demands for censorship. I grant that there's room for debate over how much good this accomplishes ... Read More
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In Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World, there's a chapter titled "Maxwell and the Nerds" about James Clerk Maxwell, the Scottish physicist who discovered the four equations that govern electricity and magnetism. There's a passage in this chapter that I think perfectly sums up the moment that all ... Read More
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I love this new song, "Satellite", by the folk singer Anna Dagmar, from her upcoming album of the same name. It's a (I assume) autobiographical account of growing up in a home with a scientist father and a religious mother - "the Story of Creation meets the Big Bang", as her website says. I first ... Read More
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Earlier this week I caught a post on Lindsay Beyerstein's blog Duly Noted, highlighting a horrifying NYT story wrestling with the question of whether children can be psychopaths, and if so, whether they're doomed to grow up into adult psychopaths or whether there's any intervention that can be ... Read More
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It must be a terribly confusing time to be a member of the Vatican hierarchy. In an effort to stem the accelerating exodus of Catholic laypeople, they've been cracking down on suspected heretics left and right - on nuns who help the poor too much, on priests who want to change the rules of ... Read More
