BIG NEWS!!

The Think Atheist Radio's new home on the web has gone LIVE. Now your favorite podcast has a site of its own to match the quality of the interviews themselves!

You’ll find that you can easily see who’s coming up as a guest on future shows, see all of our past shows visually represented by images of the guest themselves where clicking a guest’s image will bring you to their very own show page on the site where you can play our interview with them, and even just play the shows easily from the embedded player on the front page by clicking the arrow under the player and selecting the guest you want to hear.

You can also now LIKE the show on our very own Facebook page and follow the show on the show's own Twitter page. You'll discover that the show's FB and Twitter will function for you as a great newsfeed of often up to the minute links on all things of relevance to freethinkers. And of course you'll get updates on upcoming shows!

And now, to launch the new site we have a great guest for you guys!

Neil. deGrasse. Tyson.

The man himself! He spent an hour with us recently in between talking to Charlie Rose on the CBS Morning News and Martin Bashir on MSNBC. He joined us to discuss his new book, Space Chronicles. Why is it important for America to be in space, and to be in space beyond low Earth orbit? What's going to be our new Sputnik moment? Will we wake up before China is planting their flag on Mars? Tune in tonight at 5PM Pacific/8PM Pacific to hear our discussion with Dr. Tyson!

Alright, LINKS!

Wealth could make people unethical.

Are people getting dumber? A debate in print.

How many neurons make up a human brain? Billions fewer than we thought.

Do we all see the same colors?

New evidence suggests stone age hunters from Europe discovered America

Who are the wives of the leaders in the middle east that preside over the subjugation of women?

What was the impact of human and neanderthal inbreeding?

In response to Rick Santorum decrying college education Lawrence Krauss wrote to explain why we need college more than faith.

The British government ignores or sidelines its scientific advisers, says new report.

Did you see the story this week about the discovery of the tomb Jesus was buried in?  Yeah, about that...

Warring ants remember rivals' smell.

Physicists have increased their understanding of why the universe is dominated by matter and not antimatter.

Reports of Dawkins no longer being an atheist are greatly exaggerated.

Giant fleas plagued feathered dinosaurs.

Earthshine holds clues to exoplanet aliens.

Delusions of self-reliance. Turns out most people who rail against tax payer funded government programs.... actually take advantage of tax payer payer funded government programs. Meanwhile, a look at the red state/blue state divide shows that, while it is well known that red state citizens are those that are more likely to protest tax payer funded government programs, it is in fact blue states that are the producers and red states that are the cons... of those very resources.

You have to see this fantastic video on evolution put together using children's crayon drawings.

This newly described "ghost dragon" dinosaur is incredible looking. Check out the teeth on this thing; like a mouthful of glass shards!

So, Leap Day this past week. How about a bit on the physics of why we have a Leap Year.

The most distant, dark galaxy ever found.

When meeting up at sea bottlenose dolphins exchange name-like whistles.

Iceman's genome furnishes clues to his ailments and ancestry.

Will we ever be able to grow new organs?

Female bonobos 'advertise' their homosexual bonds. 

Beetle pest destroys crops with a gene it stole from bacteria in its gut.

This puts things in perspective. Space: It's freaking huge...

Religious leaders have no problem being critical of anyone... except for each other. What's going on here?

The myth of militant atheism.

Consciousness: eight questions science must answer. But why bother?

Why the global warming skeptics are wrong.

Why humans stand on giant shoulders, but chimps and monkeys don't.

Employees of an Ohio city will be paid to go to church on Good Friday.

How conservatives silence critics of religion. We're right to discuss a candidates religion when it threatens our liberties.

Oxygen envelopes Saturn's icy moon Dione.

13.2 billion light year distant object is the most distant ever seen.

Jerry Coyne posted this week that from his perspective as an evolutionary biologist, human races do exist. Jonathan Marks shot back that what we know from anthropology flatly refutes Coyne's assertions. An interesting exchange.

See what happens when religious women looking for a women's study bible stumble upon the free Kindle ebook for early feminist and critic of religion's oppression of women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's book The Woman's Bible and discover it wasn't what they thought it was going to be. Comedy Gold. 

After it was discovered this week that murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl had been posthumously baptized by the Mormon ghouls– and after the previous week when it was discovered that Anne Frank had been baptized again for the ninth time despite the church apologizing for it before– the Mormon powers that be finally issued a letter to be read in all Mormon churches telling Mormons to limit the practice to family members only.