Where will you be tonight at 10pm?
Watching Phil Plait’s Bad Universe on Discovery Channel, that’s where!
On Sunday, August 29 at 10PM ET/PT, Discovery Channel will sneak peek BAD UNIVERSE , the latest attempt at galaxy-wide domination by Bad Astronomer Phil Plait. Phil’s on a mission to debunk the junk and reveal the real science behind the mysteries of this planet, our solar system and the bad universe we all live in.
Bad Universe – Asteroid Impact Simulation | Sneak Peek
The Campaign for Free Expression
“Offensive Ideas” – Campaign for Free Expression PSA #1
Please go to Center for Inquiry for more information on the Campaign for Free Expression and contest rules, or go to the International Blasphemy Rights Day site to learn more about the movement. International Blasphemy Rights Day is September 30th, 2010
Non-Believers Giving Aid
Just a quick note to let everyone know – the red button at the right, for Non-Believers Giving Aid, is focusing their efforts on the flooding and devastation Pakistan. Here is the press release:
The situation in Pakistan is grave. The UN estimates that 20 million people have been affected by the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory, with tens of thousands of villages entirely under water. 8 million people are in need of immediate assistance, including food and medical aid, and 4.6m of these have been left without shelter.
With 700,000 hectares of crops destroyed or under water, severe food shortages are inevitable and this, together with concerns about outbreaks of cholera and other potentially fatal diseases, is leading aid agencies to warn that the death toll is likely to rise dramatically.
You can find out more about the crisis from the Special Report on the BBC News website.
Non-Believers Giving Aid and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science are once more partnering with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders to bring much needed help to people whose lives have been torn apart by natural disaster.
Every cent and penny of money donated via Non-Believers Giving Aid will be forwarded to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders – and if you are in the UK and you complete the Gift Aid Declaration along with your donation, we will pass that on in its entirety too.
We urge you to give generously in support of this much needed humanitarian relief effort. Thank you for your support.
Please click on the link to the right or go here now if you’d like to give. Thanks.
Have we got a video? Stewart slays the christian right with their own words
As a nonbeliever, I would love it if people abandoned their houses of worship and came together via science and reason. But, sadly, that’s not going to happen any time soon. Until then, I remain secular and quite fond of the Constitution. And so does Jon Stewart, quite rightly.
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Extremist Makeover – Homeland Edition
Anniversary Posts
Here’s a list of the most popular blog posts from our first year; I hope you all enjoy!
Tim Minchin and a few words about the Pope
Ignoramus Award: The Shy Anti-Atheist Author
“No God” inspires some good Christian language
Carrie Prejean, the Christian Right’s Hope for America
Today we turn 1
Attempts at Rational Behavior celebrates its first anniversary today. That calls for some serious non-believer cake. Last year on this day AatRB began with this simple little Facebook status:
_______ is feeling better this morning...had a nice talk with God at 2am while washing dishes. Guess I should get to packing.
This status, called “God is a night-owl”, was from an old friend (um, random acquaintance?) I had reconnected with on Facebook. I was constantly in awe of the way she and several other FB friends could casually talk of their religion with no questions from anyone, whereas the moment I posted something even remotely non-religious I had dozens of comments from angry Christians. After bitching about this for several months, Attempts at Rational Behavior was born.
Since then the blog has become its own entity, acquiring it’s own Twitter account and Facebook profile. I’ve also been lucky enough to get regular readers and dozens of reader submissions which are always welcome.
Thanks everyone for a great year and I hope there are many more to come!
Have we got a video? Mr. Deity and the Void
Finally! A new Mr. Deity!
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Don’t feed the trolls
