http://richarddawkins.net/ The homepage for The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. en-us http://backend.userland.com/rss PHP/4.4.5 http://richarddawkins.net/article,3232,n,n Last month a Georgia woman named DeShan Fishel was driving near a school and saw a Jeep rush past a stop signal on a school bus, clipping a 5-year-old boy. The other driver sped away. <br /> http://richarddawkins.net/article,3231,n,n The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued. http://richarddawkins.net/article,3230,n,n So it comes as a bit of a shocker when physicists say the Universe is built on broken symmetry. http://richarddawkins.net/article,3229,n,n Pup carried by Atlantic blacktip shark contained no male genetic material http://richarddawkins.net/article,3228,n,n His job is to try to hold the Anglican church together through its darkest days for centuries. So why on earth did the Archbishop of Canterbury take last summer off to write about Dostoevsky? He told Stuart Jeffries http://richarddawkins.net/article,3227,n,n Newly evolved "superworms" that feast on toxic waste could help cleanse polluted industrial land, a new study says. http://richarddawkins.net/article,3226,n,n A clever trick borrowed from jellyfish has earned two Americans and one Japanese scientist a share of the chemistry Nobel Prize. http://richarddawkins.net/article,3225,n,n Hansjorg Wyss MBA &#39;65 has given Harvard University $125 million to create the Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. http://richarddawkins.net/article,3224,n,n Programmers try to fool human interrogators http://richarddawkins.net/article,3223,n,n Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbor a big secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. http://richarddawkins.net/article,3222,n,n At a Christian &#39;boot camp&#39; in the US, those struggling to reconcile faith and sexuality are taught to overcome gayness http://richarddawkins.net/article,3221,n,n There are certain events which have such an impact on the world that they become known simply by the name of the place where they happen. Waco is one of them http://richarddawkins.net/article,3220,n,n Our universe may have started not with a big bang but with a big bounce-an implosion that triggered an explosion, all driven by exotic quantum-gravitational effects http://richarddawkins.net/article,3219,n,n Human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in the West, according to a leading genetics expert. http://richarddawkins.net/article,3218,n,n The world&#39;s oldest surviving Bible is in bits. http://richarddawkins.net/article,3216,n,n Nicky Gumbel, the vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton and the man who heads up the Alpha ministry, takes a look at yet another question which seems to be exercising many people in his latest book, Is God A Delusion? http://richarddawkins.net/article,3215,n,n Richard Dawkins&#39; <em>The God Delusion</em> has been a phenomenon. Taking even its author by surprise, it has outstripped all expectations and has been a run-away best-seller for many months. <br /> http://richarddawkins.net/article,3214,n,n Has the so-called Prosperity gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants - and hence, victims - of the current financial crisis? http://richarddawkins.net/article,3213,n,n THE Catholic lobby has escalated the pressure on Victoria&#39;s lawmakers by claiming the bill that proposes to decriminalise abortion is in breach of the State Government&#39;s charter of human rights. http://richarddawkins.net/article,3212,n,n &quot;I don't believe in God, but I miss Him,&quot; the book begins. Julian Barnes, an atheist turned agnostic, has decided at the age of 62 to address his fear of death