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Condom Queues Incite Church Tensions in Philippines

Posted by News, Top Stories 30 Mar 2012

Source: Bloomberg. Lorna Villar gave birth seven times in 14 years. After her last pregnancy pushed the 34-year-old’s blood pressure to dangerous levels, the Manila mom says contraception became a life or death matter. Villar now lines up in a crowded clinic between an auto repair shop and a kiosk selling sodas to avoid more pregnancies. The intrauterine device she had inserted free by a charity puts her among [...]

In secular Britain, a clash over public prayer

Posted by News, Top Stories 11 Mar 2012

Source: The Washington Post. Perhaps the locals should have anticipated sparks on a town council stocked not only with a practicing pagan, a staunch atheist and an agnostic former stripper but also two evangelical Christians and a Methodist church organist. But few could have predicted that one small town’s fight over the abolition of Christian prayers at public meetings would escalate into Britain’s own culture wars.

FFRF tells Catholics it’s time to leave the church

Posted by Belief, News, Top Stories 9 Mar 2012

Source: whyevolutionistrue. Way to go, Freedom from Religion Foundation! Their co-presidents, Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker, have put a full-page ad in today’s New York Times calling for Catholics to do a mass egress (cutely, “exit en mass”) because of the Church’s odious position on reproductive rights. Predictably, there’s a response from the Catholic League’s creepy Bill Donohue, which includes this [...]

Santorum and God’s Will

Posted by Belief, News, Top Stories 1 Mar 2012

Source: CounterPunch. The possibility of an authoritarian and ethically dysfunctional family in the White House in 2013 certainly has caught the attention of a number of liberals and other progressives. After all, what progressive or decent conservative for that matter would support Rick Santorum’s rejection of the separation of church and state or his belief that it is better to live under the rule of a theocratic state rather than in a democracy.

Civilisation faces ‘perfect storm of ecological and social problems’

Posted by News, Top Stories 26 Feb 2012

Source: The Guardian. Celebrated scientists and development thinkers today warn that civilisation is faced with a perfect storm of ecological and social problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption and environmentally malign technologies. In the face of an “absolutely unprecedented emergency”, say the 18 past winners of the Blue Planet prize – the unofficial Nobel for the environment – society has “no choice but to [...]

Atheists win UK case on council prayers

Posted by News, Top Stories 13 Feb 2012

Source: New Statesman. The National Secular Society has won a Judicial Review against Bideford Town Council’s practice of holding prayers as part of its formal proceedings. Mr Justice Ouseley, leading judge of the Administrative Division of the High Court, today ruled that the 1972 Local Government Act did not give councils the power to introduce a religious dimension to their meetings. The judge didn’t decide that having [...]

5 Signs the Christian Right Still Wields Too Much Power in the US

Posted by Belief, News, Top Stories 1 Feb 2012

Source: AlterNet. his month, in a New Republic article titled “The End of the Christian Right,” historian Michael Kazin confidently asserts that “the Christian Right is a fading force in American life, one which has little chance of achieving its cherished goals.” I have lost count of how many times the Religious Right has been declared dead as a political force by someone in the mainstream media. Maybe Kazin’s piece seemed [...]

Conservatives Use Creationist Playbook to Attack Climate Change Education in Schools

Posted by News, Top Stories 26 Jan 2012

Source: AlterNet. A few years ago, Cheryl Manning assigned a research project on climate change to her high school environmental science class in Evergreen, Colo. She presented the basic facts and data from peer-reviewed studies, then asked the students to look into the issue themselves and report back on what they learned. Halfway through the unit, three students came to class up in arms.

6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012

Posted by Futurism, News, Top Stories 3 Jan 2012

Source: TechCrunch. “In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time, we might prescribe apps.” Singularity University‘s executive director of FutureMed Daniel Kraft M.D. sat down with me to discuss the biggest emerging trends in HealthTech. Here we’ll look at how A.I, big data, 3D printing, social health networks and other new technologies will help you get better medical care. Kraft believes that by analyzing where the field is going, [...]

How technology is going to change everything

Posted by Futurism, News, Top Stories 31 Dec 2011

Source: Metro.co.uk. I’m at Tokyo’s Narita Airport sitting opposite arguably Britain’s most technologically astute author. So I’m surprised to find Mark Stevenson doesn’t edit his own Wikipedia page and is therefore checking it for errors. Stevenson’s critically acclaimed debut, An Optimist’s Tour Of The Future, is a world voyage of technology with the power to change the planet, and the solutions could come sooner than you think.

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