From Democracy Now, a tribute to Yip Harburg, blacklisted lyricist who wrote "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", among other hummables.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-shatzky/educating-for-democracyad_b_8871390.html
From the Huff Post, a blog about "Adjunctivitis", a disease I seem to have contracted in 2007.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2015/12/journey-nazareth-bethlehem-today-151224135702070.html
From Al Jazeera, a contemporary perspective on the trip fro Nazareth to Bethlehem, complete with checkpoints.
Another hero of mine from The Ricrad Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science's FB page:
http://www.nature.com/news/the-science-myths-that-will-not-die-1.19022
From Nature 17 December 2015 Science Myths that Won't Die (false beliefs such as increasing thyroid screening will decrease death rate, example of Korea)
From National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
DARWIN DAY BILL IN THE SENATE
Senate Resolution 337, introduced in the United States Senate on
December 17, 2015, would, if passed, express the Senate's support of
designating February 12, 2016, as Darwin Day, and its recognition of
"Charles Darwin as a worthy symbol on which to celebrate the
achievements of reason, science, and the advancement of human
knowledge."
Introduced by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), S. Res. 336
is the second Darwin Day resolution ever to appear in the Senate. A
string of similar bills have been introduced in the House of
Representatives, the most recent of which -- H. Res. 548 -- was
introduced by Representative Jim Himes (D-Connecticut) on December 3,
2015.
In a December 18, 2015, press release from the Secular Coalition of
America, which worked with Blumenthal on the resolution, Kelly
Damerow, the organization's interim executive director, commented,
"This resolution celebrates the intellectual bravery and scientific
discovery that contribute to the well-being of all people."
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