Rachel’s Challenge and Why a Christian Martyr’s Message Matters to Atheists
Today a certain movie came out in theaters that involves an certain vacuous and self-loathing young woman from a fictional novle, whom I’ve written extensively about in the past, attempting suicide because her high school boyfriend breaks up with her. The movie and the milksop shall go unnamed. I expect most of you won’t be watching this milksop jump off a cliff, so I shall first applaud you. Next I will tell you about the exciting thing that happened at my school today. My high schoo

The Effect of Education on Religion
While searching for a current event for one of my teaching courses, I came across “Losing My Religion” from the New York Times. Miles Kimball, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, teamed up with a few colleagues and tracked roughly 26,000 American students for six years, noting their religious observances and attitudes. At the end of the study, they crunched all of the numbers and dete

What the F&#$ Was That?!
This is a great spoof series on paranormal investigative shows! I found them while attempting to be productive. Remember, if you hear or see anything that cant be explained then it paranormal activity!!! more about "What the F&#$ Was That?! ", posted with vodpod

Choosing a College Major.
Yesterday, Chelsea wrote a great post on the main Skepchick blog about higher education, explaining her choice of major and asking readers if they’d switched majors in college. I’m a junior in college majoring in literature with an 8-12 ELA teaching certification, but I’m beginning to feel those slight pangs of doubt that a few of the main Skepchick readers mentioned. I adore teaching and know that I&#

An Evening of Physics on The Colbert Report!
For those of you who aren’t rabid Colbert junkies like myself, I’ll have you know that this past Wednesday, October 28, 2009 laid claim to an absolutely fantastic episode of The Colbert Report that everyone should see. The show fires up with a 9-minute discussion of healthcare before spending the rest of the episode discussing LHC-related goodness. And, as if Stephen joking about physics isn’t enough, Prof. Brian Cox