Pro-Life Atheism: You Don't Have To Be Religious To Be Against Abortion

I'm atheist. On Dawkin's religiosity scale of 1 to 7 (1 being extremely religious and 7 completely atheist) I'm 6.9 (just like Mr. Dawkins himself). God plays no role in my life and I find the idea of an intelligent creator of the universe who sits up in the heaven and concerns himself with what hand I wash my ass with or when (and with what gender) I have sex with quite laughable. At most, I might consider being an agnostic deist. That is, I believe...

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Economic Performances of the US Presidents

On average the US presidents tend to do a worse job in terms of the economy during their second term. This is a graph from the economist, comparing the economic performances of the presidents. How do you think Obama will do? ...

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alterFACT: IBM's 1964 Supercomputer Was Much Bigger And Much Weaker Than Your Smartphone

IBM's 1964 360/91 model computer had an internal memory of 8Mb and was humongous. It was housed by NASA and was at the time the most powerful computer in the world. Your smartphone is thousands of times more powerful than this device ...

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The Strange Future of the World and Nanotechnology

Someone born in 1930 would never have believed that billions of people would fly around the world in metal tubes called airplanes, that a man would walk on the moon and that you will be reading this on a metal box called the computer connected to the rest of the world through the Internet.  Now it's time to embrace the new world of the future. Where scientists will move single atoms to create new nano-structures to achieve the most remarkable achievements. The new world of opportunities. The new world of Nano. ...

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On This Day: End Of the Vietnam War

Exactly 40 years ago on this day President Richard Nixon proudly announced the whole world that the peace deal with Northern Vietnam has been signed. At that point American troops have been involved in Vietnam for over a decade, with over 500,000 deployed at the height in 1967. The peace treaty didn't last long as there were frequent violations of it until 1975, when a full-fledged war between the North and the South started. Unsurprisingly, it...

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alterFACT: You Are More Likely To Die On Your Birthday

The study carried out by "serious" (as BBC calls them) Swiss scientists shows that you are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day. The study analysed 2.5 million death in Switzerland between 1969 and 2008. Some claim that the dogs playing dead were mistakenly accounted for as well There are number of hypothesis to explain this phenomena. Some say that people "hang on" to their birthday, while  others attribute...

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alterIMAGE: When Lava Meets Water

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