Tag Archives: life

Ask Faye 9: Moirai, or the Allotter, the Spinner, and the Inflexible

by | April 10, 2021

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Faye Girsh is the Founder and the Past President of the Hemlock Society of San Diego. She was the President of the National Hemlock Society (Defunct) and the World Federation of RTD Societies (Extant). Currently, she is on the Advisory Board of the Final Exit Network and the Euthanasia Research and Guidance… Read more »

Evolution Produced All Life, Including Skeptics

by | November 11, 2019

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — Evolution is astounding.  The mind boggles to realize that natural selection – driven by weak hydrogen bonds… Read more »

Purpose-Driven Lives

by | September 18, 2019

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back, as he opens in No Qualms (Ed., published on 2018, July 18, i.e., when he was 86), “I’m quite aware… Read more »

Ask Professor Rosenthal 2 – By the Numbers, Boys and Girls: Happenstance and Chance of the Everyday

by | April 27, 2019

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Dr. Jeffrey S. Rosenthal is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Toronto. Here we talk about the statistics, life, and quality of life. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are some everyday examples of statistics, chance, and luck in action? Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal: There are so many!  Randomness arises whenever we’re… Read more »

Interview with Robert Nola – Member and Honorary Associate of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists & Humanists (Inc.) (NZARH)

by | March 31, 2019

Interview with Robert Nola – Member and Honorary Associate of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists & Humanists (Inc.) (NZARH) – by Scott Douglas Jacobsen.