Weekend Links - Happy Holidays!

• Tom Lehrer: A Christmas Carol (Video)
• Pat Robertson Wants to Legalize Marijuana (Video)
• This Christmas, For Perhaps the First Time Ever, Britain is a Majority Non-Religious Nation 
• Christmas should be for everyone, atheists included
• Richard Dawkins: A shameful thought for the Day
• Woman Sees Pistachio Jesus
• Michael Shermer: The Science of Right and Wrong
• What Nontheists Can Learn from the Success of the Homosexual Rights Movement
• King William's College "Christmas Quiz"
  

Weekend Links

• Nomad: From Islam to America with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Video)
• The Colbert Report: Jesus is a Liberal Democrat (Video)
• Religious Right on Dangers of Environmentalism (Video)
• Senate Repeals ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
• A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist
• An atheist in the White House? Why not, it's happened before
• PZ Myers: Not Allowed NOT to Say
• Ben Goldacre: This Year in Nonsence
• Bad Faith Awards 2010

Weekend Links

• Rachel Maddow Interviews Author of Ugandan 'Kill The Gays' Bill (Video)
• Merry Xmas with Christopher Hitchens (Video)
• Obituary for John Dawkins (1915 - 2010)
• Almost 2,000 Dutch Catholic Sex Abuse Reports This Year
• WikiLeaks Cables: Vatican Refused to Engage with Child Sex Abuse Inquiry
  
• Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Abortion at U.S. Military Bases
• Iran TV Shows Stoning Woman Acting Out Husband's Murder
• Christopher Hitchens, PZ Myers Confirmed Speakers at American Atheists 2011 Convention
• Our YouTube channel has reached over 16000 subscribers and 10 Million Upload views

Weekend Links

• AT LARGE: A Conversation With Christopher Hitchens (Video)
• Illinois Bus Ad: "Bill Gates is Good Without God" (Video)
• Marcel Dicke: Why Not Eat Insects? (TED Video)
• ABC's What Would You Do? Tackles Homophobic Parenting (Video)
• Obama's Stimulus Pours Millions Into Faith-Based Groups
• Pakistan Imam Offers Reward to Kill Pardoned Christian Woman
• Where's the Outrage Over Noah's Ark Park?
• Human Rights Group Calls on Indonesia to Overturn Sharia Laws

Weekend Links

• Watch Hitchens vs. Blair Online for $2.99 (Video)
• Inside Story - Egypt's growing sectarian tensions (Video)
• TFC 2010 - Richard Haynes - Secular Parenting (Video)
• Faith-heads thrashed at Oxford Union
• Canadian police charge senior Orthodox prelate with sex crimes
• Dutch Catholic order admits abuse case hush money
• From Koogle to Yideotube, efforts to provide a kosher Internet
• Photographic Evidence Proves That Squid Can Fly

Weekend Links

• Hate E-mails with Richard Dawkins (Video)
• Pastor: Facebook is encouraging adultery (Video)
• Tribute to Indian Atheists (Video)
• Halal make-up business now booming (Video)
• Condoms, Pius XII, sex abuse and other main points in pope book
• Italian cardinal warns gay activists are persecuting Christians
• Saudi Arabia less rigid with Muslims during hajj
• Support for female circumcision declining in Africa, study shows

Weekend Links

*NSFW

• Church Group Wins $129M with Lottery Ticket Bought at Porn Shop (Video)
• Discovery Channel Commercial "Ignorance is bliss" (Video)
• Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan
• Louisiana Creationists Want to Ban Biology Textbooks That Teach Evolution
• What madness will the NY Times take seriously next?
• Is Paganism a dangerous cult? The Daily Mail investigates...
• Science finds the plane truth about in-flight meals

Weekend Links

• "Protest the Pope" in Barcelona (Video)
• Pie in the face for controversial Belgian Catholic archbishop (video)
  
• Ray Comfort meets Richard Dawkins ...almost (Video)
• Pope urges Spain to shun secularism
• 10 Commonly Believed Myths about the Human Body
• Chatbot Debates Climate Change Deniers on Twitter so You Don’t Have to
• Atheists can be stupid, too

Weekend Links

• GOP Creationist Candidates in Illinois Pushing the New Talking Point (Video)
• 'Hang them': Uganda paper publishes photos of gays
• Christopher Hitchens: 'My life is my writing ... my children come later'
• When in doubt, shout – why shaking someone’s beliefs turns them into stronger advocates
• Danish Review Of Creation Museum
• Canadian scientists fight back against censorship
• Astronomers find oldest galaxy yet

Weekend Links

• Sam Harris vs. Robert Wright (Video)
• Stephen Fry On Language (Video)
• Christine O'Donnel Dodges Evolution Question (Video) 
• New BBC guidelines extend 'due impartiality' to religion
• Christianity in France is fading
• Belgian archbishop represents the church's love
• Poll to determine who saved the miners in Chile

Weekend Links

Older visitors of this blog might remember the 'Links' posts. As before, the featured video will not be related to atheism.

• Yavin IV reaches the edge of space (Video)
• Should an online poll determine what is cruel and unusual?
• The censored "Where's Muhammad?" cartoon
• British schools where girls must wear the Islamic veil  
• Brazil “values voters” go YouTube against prez hopeful Rousseff
• New Humanist needs you to nominate this year's enemies of reason

Links | June 28

Boom De Yada!

Videos:

• Salman Rushdie Offers His 'Antidote' to Religious Intolerance - FORA TV
  
• Common New Atheist Fallacies - Legana Christian Church
  
• PBS NOVA: Personal Genome Project
• PBS NOVA: The Dark Matter Mystery
• A Car that runs on water - C&L
  

News:

• George Carlin's Last Interview - Psychology Today
• Psychiatrists: Least Religious But Most Interested In Patients' Religion - Science Daily
• Fossil of most primitive 4-legged creature found - AP
• The 'Zebiba': A gift from God - BBC

Links | June 17

NOVA: Amazing Atoms

Throw away your textbooks. Here is the latest, atomically correct, version of our old friend, the atom.

Videos:

• Two gay clergymen marry in UK church - Raw Replay
  
• Christopher Hitchens Interviewed by ABC's Lateline on the US Elections and Obama
• Darwin's Canopy: Art inspired by evolution - New Scientist
• Childrens guide to traditional religion - Comedy

News:

• Richard Dawkins does NOT have a Twitter account - Friendly Atheist
• "The Happening" Is the Biggest Intelligent Design Movie of the Year - io9
• Astronomers find batch of 'super-Earths' - The Age
  
• In other news, a friend from Dubai just told me that our Youtube channel is blocked in the UAE! This blog is not.
  

Links | May 30

Twin Prime Conjecture

Wikipedia: Twin prime conjecture

Videos:

• New Scientist video round-up- New Scientist
• Activist Wajiha Criticizes Saudi Society - MEMRI
• Sharon Stone blames Chinese earthquake on bad karma - New Humanist

News:

• Storm erupts over 'virginity' divorce - The Australian
• The Sad State of American Particle Physics Facilities - Wired Science
• Pupils 'will soon be able to download lessons directly into their brains' - Daily Mail
• Danish Cartoonist honored for Mohammed portrait - United Press Journal

Other:

• Vodka Tips - Skepchick
• Atheist Children (Cartoon) - Friendly Atheist

Links | May 21

The World of Chemistry

Videos:

• Kissing Hank's Ass
• Hagee on Gay Marriage
  
• Muslim School Staff Attacks News Crew
• A Christian group in the UK are suing Google for blocking a pro-life advertisement

News:

• Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult' - Guardian
• Missing matter found in deep space - Yahoo News
  
• Pupils told to pray for good exam results - Telegraph
• Germany: Muslim jailed for stabbing rabbi he called a "Jewish pig" - BBC

*Some links were stolen from Friendly Atheist and RDF

New Items at RichardDawkins.net Store

From RDF Newsletter:

New items in the RichardDawkins.net store, including new A T-shirts, RDF T-shirts, A Hoodies, RDF Hoodies, RDF Tote bags and new 4.5" clear-back A stickers!

Links | Feb 21

Adam Curtis: The Rise and Fall of
the Television Journalist as Hero

Note: featured video in the links post may not always be related

Videos:

• New BBC Horizon: How To Live To 101
  
• Pharyngula: Two tales of whale evolution
  
• CNN: Dr. Marlene Winell on the Colorado church shooting
  
• Derren Brown challenges the beliefs of a New Age believer with a Voodoo Doll
  
• Henry Rollins on Evolution
  

News:

• Smart rubber promises self-mending products (with video) - New Scientist
  
• British officials paid a psychic to evict council house ghost - Reuters
  
• Iranian Man Sentenced to 4 Months in Jail, 30 Lashes for Walking Dog - Fox News
• Saudi Virtue Commission defends arrest of American businesswoman - Arab News
• Scientology, Anonymous - by Michael Shermer

Links | Documentaries only

Thanks to the original uploader for uploading over 200 100 documentaries in the past week (Click here for the complete list). These are some of the ones I know and recommend:

• Horizon: Most of our universe is missing
• Horizon: Dr. Money and the boy with no penis
  
• Horizon: Mad but glad
• Horizon: The Genius Sperm Bank
• Horizon: The woman who thinks like a cow
• Sir David Attenborough: First contact with a Tribe
• Adam Curtis: The Trap | Part 2 | Part 3
  
• Terry Jones: Barbarians | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
  

Links | Feb 12

Happy Darwin Day!

Today is Charles Darwin's 199th birthday.
Read about Darwin Day

Videos:

• Inside Hamas - New Channel 4 Documentary (Worth watching)
  
• Exposed: The New Uri Geller - Geller's trainee
  
• New Miracle, Jesus found on a log - Fox News
  
• News report about Anon's protests against Scientology - CBC News

News:

• To Hell With the Archbishop of Canterbury - by Christopher Hitchens
• Dutch MP says anti-Islamic film 'Fitna' set for broadcast in March - New details
  
• Jesus 2.0 Has Arrived - The story of GodTube.com
  
• Christians Wrong About Heaven, Says Bishop - Time

Links | Feb 9

Videos:

• This week's New Scientist video round-up - New Scientist
• Archbishop faces harsh criticism over Sharia row - BBC News
• Michael Shermer: The Free Market Philosophy of Adam Smith - Fora TV
• BBC Horizon: How to Kill a Human Being - New documentary
• Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma - TED Talks

News:

• Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Found, 100 Million Years Old - Science Daily
• Yahoo! is banning the use of "Allah" in email names - The Register
• Westboro Baptist Church Pickets Mike Huckabee In Kansas - Pictures from C&L
• First church in Qatar since coming of Islam 14 centuries ago - Radio Netherlands News