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[Note: Please welcome Hemley Gonzalez to Daylight Atheism. Hemley is the founder of Responsible Charity, a secular non-profit organization serving the poor of Calcutta, which was a past beneficiary of […]

     

The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.

Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.

Art isn’t a side note in human history; it’s the main text.

University College London professor Brian Klaas exposes the ugly truth about world leaders.

You can’t spot a liar just by looking — but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.

Kids are fragile. They should trust their feelings. The world is a battle between good and evil. We should stop repeating these untruths.

The future of American jobs isn’t only services and tech.

Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.

Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here’s what to know.

Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.

Deniers will never stop misleading others. Here’s the truth. Every so often, advocates of a fringe theory — one that doesn’t fit the evidence as well as the mainstream theory — do what they can […]

The ultimate lesson from Dr. Birx is one we should never, ever repeat. About a year ago, as the world experienced the deadly “first wave” associated with the coronavirus pandemic, many […]

This medieval-themed meme highlights a shady yet all too common rhetorical move people make in arguments.

It’s very different from the colloquial meanings of “true-and-false” or “right-and-wrong.” In many ways, the human endeavor of science is the ultimate pursuit of truth. By asking the natural world […]

Studying philosophy has had a major impact on the power players of Silicon Valley.

The “deep stories” that run your world are changing. The stories democracy and economics rely on aren’t working so well…

Although it seems savvy to defer to “the data,” the devil is in the mixed details. For example, humans on average have one testicle and one ovary.      

How successful are these drugs in inducing a good night’s sleep – and what are the drawbacks, over time, to using them as sleep aids?

Research has shown that drugs dogs routinely act based on the behavioral cues of their handlers, rather than acting on their sense of smell, raising important questions about the Fourth Amendment rights of anyone subject to search based on their actions.

Objective truth is fine if we want to know the weather conditions, but to live as a human in a human society, a more nuanced approach is needed to knowledge and understanding.

“Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.”  

“As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.”

Vivek Wadhwa boasts quite the résumé. He is a fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization […]

We’re told that our high-tech meritocracy based on productivity is the source of our enlightenment when it comes to our resolute opposition to racism, sexism, and heterosexism.  Certainly the demands […]

If your house got blown away by a hurricane, you’d probably want to build a stronger house next time, right? The same should be true for financial markets. The government […]

Larger than the threat of global warming is feeding humanity’s ever-expanding population. Already, we use 40% of dry land on Earth to produce food. Are we simply running out of planet?

I finally found one word to describe Memory as Medicine, the Radcliffe Bailey exhibition I saw last Saturday – colossal. More than mere paint on canvas, the huge multimedia selections […]