The Lascaux Cave Apse-Shaft Paintings – circa 17,000 B.P., Dordogne France: This photographic image from a rather inaccesible section of the Lascaux Cave (in a far end and down a Continue Reading →
David Eagleman on Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s YT channel Closer to Truth discusses the brain and mind and his views on consciousness. Eagleman is a successful author and popular neuroscientist who Continue Reading →
MCFH (McHenry County Freethinkers and Humanists) booth at the McHenry County Fairgrounds August 3-8 2021. Representing the 25% of Americans who are not religious.-the Freethinkers. As Humanists we promote human Continue Reading →
I am an unabashed scientismist. Scientism is often derogatorally described as an overuse, over confidence in science, and an arrogant refusal to see there are other “ways of knowing” usually Continue Reading →
Religions Suck, then you die. There, I said it. TORT: “The Obsolescence of Religious Thought” sounds to me like a damn good followup to TART: “The Arrogance of Religious Thought” Continue Reading →
Some folks, how ’bout most folks, just don’t like the idea of materialism. “There must be something more”, many feel, and it is non-material, made of the spirit, in the Continue Reading →
I coined the term “cultural inertia” some time ago to describe the phenomenon that some ideas just hang around if widely-held, if they are the majority view, and the average Continue Reading →
I’ll be remodeling my old office in the basement in September/October to turn it into a video studio/library for all my science and secular books as backdrop to the video Continue Reading →
Wounded Bull and Ice Age hunter with atl-atl (spear-thrower). From nearly 40,000 years ago to almost 10,000 BC, all across southern Europe in over 400 caves and rockshelters, Paleolithic Cave Continue Reading →
A short book review of the above. (13 chapters plus appendix, 234 pages, 196 references). From the Forward: “The authors have woven together Buddhist practices developed over two thousand years Continue Reading →
