Jonathan MS Pearce

CNN have recently produced a list of the world's happiest and least happy countries. There are no prizes to those who guess the correlation between lack of religion and happiness. This

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Here is an isolation video interview for you, a la One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAj5KhdNFgU

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Here is a bit of a magnum opus I have just written to some MS forums that should be of pretty universal interest here. I will end it with some comment specific stuff

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Some Monday music for you, to keep you company. I always loved this. Good lyrics:

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Here is a sample from thinkers from the edge.com, asked by John Brockman: John Brockman, Editor of Edge, each year asks scores of notable scientists and other intellectuals one very challenging question.

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I am presently getting an awful lot of having read the behemoth that is Robert Sapolsky's Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst [UK]. There is a lot

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[This is a guest post from J Enigma - enjoy]. The other week I was engaged with an individual on Facebook arguing the merits of employing a universal healthcare system (why yes, I

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Well, it's about time I updated you all on what's going on over here in Russia. I have been here 16 days now and I am in fantastic hands.

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It is a word that can often get confused or conflated with trust and faith and other such terms. But in this context, I would like to her think about what worldview (and

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This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9F9NDWshLs

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I recently wrote a post on supposed atheist atrocities being worse than Christian ones, as argued often by naive apologists. One commenter made a video that should be interesting for you (Derek Mathias

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I'm holed up in a room for most of the day enjoying the delicacies of chemotherapy infusions and sleeping and whatnot, so I have been able to achieve a number of

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