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How much should we worry about asteroids?
Astronomers have found an estimated 40% of the near-Earth asteroids that are 140 m and larger. You do the math.
You think weather forecasting is bad now? Welcome to 2070
It's not just the size of the storms that future generations will deal with. It's the terrifying unpredictability.
Go easy on the weatherfolks. It's chaos out there
Weather forecasts are tangible, daily predictions of the future. But it's damn near impossible to get it right—and that's about to get much worse.
Virtual reality church: This tech isn’t just for gaming anymore
In which today's shrinking church reaches out to virtual reality—with weird results.
Z: The least religious generation ever
In an analysis that reads like porn for secularists, Daniel Cox details the degrees to which Gen Z is markedly more secular than any previous generational cohort.
Introducing LA’s newest secular youth group
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was a teen, there is nothing I would have loved more than to be in a secular youth group. I wasn’t in a religious youth group, but from what I’ve heard, I didn’t miss much besides purity culture, bad Christian rock music, and suppressed teen hormones. But what if there
The deathbed perspective
It’s easy to forget that life is temporary. How would you live differently with that knowledge in front of you?
The fellowship of the living
As humanists, we should completely reject age as an artificial segregation of humanity. A deep future view can help.
The stealth conservatism of Bill Maher
Reading Time: 7 minutes OnlySky · The stealth conservatism of Bill Maher | Eiynah As the number of religiously unaffiliated continues to grow around the world, it brings with it the promise of a more progressive future. This group, known also as the ‘nones’, shows time and time again that it trends
The resurrection of Ethical Culture
This one’s for my people.
How secular rituals can give our lives meaning: An interview with Sasha Sagan
Reading Time: 6 minutes The late astronomer Carl Sagan once wrote in his book Contact, “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” It’s only fitting, then, that his daughter Sasha Sagan has carried on his legacy with her own book focusing on secular rituals that pro