Science
Atheists know more about religion than believers says poll
September 30, 2010A study released September 28 by the Pew Research center says atheists and agnostics know more about the world's religious faiths than believers.
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“Pro-Muslim” textbooks banned in Texas
September 28, 2010By focusing on Texas, the extreme right has been able to keep Thomas Jefferson and Thurgood Marshall out of textbooks in districts around the country.
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Philosophy is dead, asserts Stephen Hawking in new book
September 14, 2010Stephen Hawking, one of the world's best known physicists and a great thinker-in-general, has written, after almost a ten year hiatus, a short new book that gives some surprising new answers to the ultimate questions of...
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Cheers for Anne Feeney, jeers to Chamber of Commerce
August 24, 2010CHEERS for troubadour Anne Feeney, who has sung her lungs out to help America's workers.
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Meteor shower dazzles a crowd
August 17, 2010It was after midnight, the morning of August 13, and we were among the 100 or more stargazers who had driven 17 miles of winding road to observe the Perseid Meteor Shower.
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