This blogroll is a collection of some of my favourite atheist, agnostic, science, philosophy and freethinker blogs. I didn't write these posts, so attribution is due to those that originally wrote the articles. Each post has a link to the originating blog. Should you want to comment or read more from the author, please check out their own blogs.

If you are a blog author listed here, and you don't want to have your posts aggregated in this manner, please let me know and I'll be happy to remove your blog from my blogroll.

Thanks!

Monday, 28 September 2009

Link

Where Texans file science

The Hastings bookstore in Lubbock, Texas, has a peculiar way of organizing their books.

new_fiction.jpeg

But then, these are people so deeply confused that they probably rummage about fruitlessly in the…

Link

Retractable Forehead Genitalia

How can you resist a post about chimaeras and their amazing forehead specializations?

Read the comments on this post…

Link

An amusing back-and-forth

The tiff between Jerry Coyne and Robert Wright is getting even more hilarious. Wright is accusing Coyne of misrepresenting and misunderstanding his book, and is bringing up all these quotes from

Link

Congrats to the growing Laden family

They’ve got another one entering the fray in November, and they need your suggestions for a name.

It’s a boy, which makes it harder. When we were in those distant childbearing years, I hit up…

Link

“Hey, PZ, how's the book coming along?”

Today was a big day for revision and cleanup — I cut out some of the weaker stuff I’d written before. I think deleting words ought to count for just as much as adding words, but I’ll refrain from…

Link

Justice for Gloria

In 2002, Thomas and Manju Sam had a very sick child: their daughter Gloria was suffering from a life-threatening case of eczema, and essentially screamed herself to death by painful suppuration….

Link

Mary's Monday Metazoan: Monarchs of the Midwest
monarch.jpeg

Sad to say, I’ve seen a grand total of ONE monarch butterfly here in Morris this fall. When I moved here in 2000, we’d see them in swarms — there were scattered spots around town where…

Link

Basava Premanand is dying

Premanand is a notable rationalist and publisher of Indian Skeptic magazine, and he is in a hospital dying of cancer as I write this. He is alert and fully aware of his condition, and he knows his…

Link

How Prayer Works

Prayer - The Rock Church @ MusicImage by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr

While searching for some information online about some of the methodologically sound studies of intercessory prayer, I stumbled across a Christian…

Link

Ambushed by Jehova's Witnesses

The Watchtower and Awake from The Jehovah's Wi...Image by Dan Patterson via Flickr

I was mowing my back yard yesterday morning. It was hot and muggy - typical Mississippi weather, and I was quite sweaty by the time I was finished. As…