Science
GOP drags Virginia backwards
October 8, 2010Cuccinelli was the first state attorney general to announce that he was suing to overturn the Obama health care reform, has fought scientific study and has even flirted with the "birthers."
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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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