Archive for March 8th, 2010

  • Agnostic Burial

    Agnostic Burial

    Where do you bury someone like Darwin, a man who admittedly had lost his Christian faith and declared himself an agnostic? When he died on April 19, 1882, his family planned to bury him in the local churchyard beside the graves of his children. Some...

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  • Huge Garbage Patch Found in Atlantic

    Huge Garbage Patch Found in Atlantic

    Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say. Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But this issue has essentially been...

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