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Something to read… and something to listen to!

Posted in astronomy, atheist, carnival, podcasts, religion, space on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

First, as I mentioned earlier, check out the Carnival of Space #136 at Simostronomy. There’s an update on Spirit, more news from the AAS, and the usual spaceflight goodness. Second, I had a great conversation with Mister Payne for the Religion of Curiosity podcast, and the episode has just posted. This is a really great [...]

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A Very Brief History of Christmas

Posted in Christmas, atheist, history, holiday on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I love Christmastime.  I love the lights, the trees, the gift-giving, the hot chocolate by the fire… okay, I don’t have a fireplace anymore. For as much as I complain about cold and snow, less a problem now that I live in Virginia, I do love celebrating this particular holiday. The day after Thanksgiving, I [...]

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My beefs with my ex-religion

Posted in atheist, personal, rant, religion on November 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

For an atheist, I tend not to talk much about religious matters anymore.  When I first came “out” as an atheist, it was an interesting topic of discussion for me, but I quickly bored of it. Still no evidence for god? Okay, move along.  I’m much more interested in the immediate harm of anti-vaxxers and [...]

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My Philly-Atlantic City-New York-Poconos Experience

Posted in Galileo, Philadelphia, atheist, fun, penn and teller, personal, picture, skepchicks, skeptic, telescope, travel on June 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »

My webernets presence has been pretty sparse lately, as I’ve been away from home and on the road for almost a week and a half.  And I had a blast! So much so that I’m having trouble readjusting to being home.  So here’s the recap for those who care. (If you don’t give a darn, [...]

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Where’s Nicole?

Posted in Charlottesville, Expelled, anti-science, astronomy, atheist, blogs, book, bsg, carnival, creationism, critical thinking, education, grad school, iya2009, nrao, paranormal, personal, picture, science, skepchicks, skeptic, space, stupidity, telescope, vaa, virginia, vla on March 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I’m still around. Promise! The last few weeks have been super busy with travel, being sick, and work. Coming up in the next few weeks are my thesis committee meeting, a regional conference for my grant, a bellydance workshop, and a class project to design and guide, and generally trying to keep my project moving!  [...]

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This weekend’s tidbits…

Posted in Randi, Sagan, asteroid, astronomy, atheist, fun, media, personal, picture, politics, science, space, videos on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A few fun, fantastic, and important things of note from the weekend: Duck! An asteroid is going to come whizzing by, as the Bad Astronomer points out. Okay, it’s not coming dangerously close, but astronomers are getting better at detecting approaching asteroids. The pun-master also ends this post with a real side-splitter. James Randi speaks [...]

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Purity in Religion?

Posted in atheist, culture, labels, morality, religion, vaa on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last week at the meeting of the Virginia Atheists and Agnostics, we had a fascinating talk by Chris Bell, titled “When are Tibetans not Buddhist?” Chris is working on a Ph.D in religious studies with a focus on, of course, Tibetan Buddhism. I won’t even pretend to recap the incredible depth of detail, including pictures [...]

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An invitation…

Posted in atheist, religion on December 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I got this message in my YouTube inbox the other day, probably in response to my old and only video in response to the Blasphemy Challenge (no I won’t link to it, I hate myself on video!) Just saying… Jesus is Alpha and Omega the Begining and the End. No one comes to the Father [...]

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Hardcore Atheist?

Posted in atheist, blogs, fun on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As first posted on Friendly Atheist and seen on skeptigirl, 50 questions to determine if you are hardcore about your atheism: Participated in the Blasphemy Challenge. (My first and only YouTube video…) Met at least one of the “Four Horsemen” (Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, Harris) in person. (Hitch signed my book and kissed my hand… did [...]

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WBC recap

Posted in Charlottesville, atheist, picture on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

So I mentioned earlier that I would be attending the counter-protest to the Westboro Baptist Church’s protest of the “Laramie Project” at UVa. Although the WBC never showed up, the counter-protest was pretty darn awesome. Lots of people showed up to support the message of tolerance and love! A bit of the crowd lining the [...]

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