Suppose an asteroid was on a collision course with earth. You wouldn’t be the first to imagine this. And, it has happened in the past numerous times. …

All articles starting yesterday are being distributed by Medium’s new algorithm. The stats page will no longer say “Chosen for Further Distribution.” Humans still will monitor the process, but mostly it is being done by the software now. …

When Religion first came on the scene with superstitions and the like, it was all we had going for us. I asked Google about mankind’s first forays into superstition: Google’s first hit was this: The Origins of Religion: How Supernatural Beliefs Evolved (Image credit: Sergey Nivens | Shutterstock.com) Many Catholics reveled in the pope's whirlwind visit to the East Coast…www.livescience.com “The vast majority of the U.S. population does not belong to the Catholic Church, and a…

I will discuss a few things about all of this to give just a general overview of the advancements in the state of the art of chess, rating systems, and tournament design. Chess has a lot of problems in its internal structure. This leads directly to the large draw statistic…

This Was a Quora Question!! — Here’s the link to the original Quora question: Why are there so many people terrified of atheists? Answer (1 of 21): People are addicted to religion and fear giving it up - in this sense it is similar to tobacco…divineatheist.quora.com Really? I wasn’t aware that atheists are so terrifying. All that an atheist can or will do to a religious person is to take away their religion. Nietzsche was a philosopher who wrote about taking away religion a number of times:

This Problem Underlies Religion and a Major Chess Scandal Involving Magnus Carlsen and Hans Niemann — Sorry for the long title, but I needed two breaths to say this, not just one. In Saint Louis, there’s a chess tournament still going on as I write this. But, one of the entrants (Magnus Carlsen) has left the tournament. He was defeated by Hans Niemann. …