Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.

Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself.

Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the point that "even the skeptics can accept it," the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist said.

"If you get to the stage where you can persuade ( Read more... )

Andrew Stanton Explains 'John Carter' Name Change, Says Girls Won't See A Movie With 'Mars' In The Title
Many fanboys and literary fanatics became ruffled when Disney (and director Andrew Stanton) changed the name of this spring's Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation "John Carter of Mars" to simply, "John Carter." Apparently Stanton was in London to ( Read more... )

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2011) - Individual beliefs don't stay confined to the person who has them; they can affect how a society functions. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, looks at 57 countries and finds that an individual's sexism leads to gender inequality in the society as a ( Read more... )

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Freyja Haraldsdóttir is an Icelandic grad student in disability studies, activist, writer, and has been elected to the Icelandic constitutional assembly, which is rewriting the constitution as we speak, and all around awesome. She has written several ( Read more... )

Judge denies defense access to medical records of slain U-Va. student Yeardley Love ( Read more... )

Call for easing of restrictions on test-tube babies in Germany

Dec 21, 2010, 13:53 GMT

Berlin - A cross-party group of parliamentarians called Tuesday for a relaxation of Germany's strict laws on test-tube babies - paving the way for a conscience vote on the issue next year.

Currently Germany does not allow doctors to screen embryo ( Read more... )

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BBC radio 4 programme - It's about half an hour long, basically why everything is still crap for modern western women even "post-feminism" and why the recession etc. are superbad for women and why it's totally not cool to call yourself a feminist. I personally think this would be a good one to show those who need initiation or who like, don't ( Read more... )

A recent and exhaustive meta-analysis of scientific data shows that top psychology studies tend to make conclusions about human nature based on samples taken solely from Western undergraduate students. Christie Nicholson reports

Anyone familiar with psychology has probably heard a statement like this: A significant percentage of male & female ( Read more... )

Women are embracing lesbianism in their thirties, according to research indicating that shifts in sexual orientation may be more widespread than previously thought ( Read more... )