As NBC’s Today Show reports, “Crossing the street has never been as iconic a moment as it was 45 years ago on Friday, when The Beatles strolled across Abbey Road and stepped into one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most memorable images.” The photograph of George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon was captured […]
Back in April of last year, science all-stars Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and Brian Greene came to mock blows over … motives for funding scientific research with Bill Nye ending up holding back Neil deGrasse Tyson. It all happened during a panel discussion during at the Origins Project at Arizona State University, focusing on […]
The war between evolution and creationism is raging in Atlanta after a high school biology teacher showed a PowerPoint Presentation to students linking evolution to Satan. The story was first reported in The Southerner, the Henry W. Grady High School newspaper, by two students. The latest chapter in the debate over how to teach the […]
In this set of Flashback Friday clips, Neil DeGrasse Tyson destroys Bill O’Reilly’s supposition that, since humans don’t understand how or why the tides rise and fall each day, that God must be the cause of this inexplicable mystery. As background, in early 2011, Dave Silverman of American Atheists appeared on Bill O’Reilly‘s program and […]
As the video below states, there is a social stigma attached to chewing gum. It isn’t permitted in schools and many workplace environments. It can often lead to some kind of punishment or write-up. In October 2013, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aries conducted an experiment. 481 people participated. They watched sets of […]