Reading Time: < 1 minute There’s no better expression of the secular spirit of Christmas than Tim Minchin’s “White Wine in the Sun.” Enjoy.
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As a secular person, what do your holiday celebrations look like?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Marking the passage of time or the significance of landmarks in our lives is as old as humanity—and far older than the religious traditions that often frame them. Secular people have the freedom to adopt whatever traditions are meaningful to them, to adapt them to their own preferences, or to build entirely new traditions of […]
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Small creatures and deep connections | Sasha Sagan
Anthony Pinn kicks off his new podcast with Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World. Daughter of astronomer/educator Carl Sagan and writer/producer Ann Druyan, Sasha was raised with a sense of awe and wonder about the majesty of the universe, learning to see science […]
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Introducing PINN DROP with Anthony Pinn
Nothing is more human than the act of creation. Whether a book or visual art, music or dance, a new community or a social movement, the urge to create something that didn’t exist before is one of our defining features. Join humanist icon Anthony Pinn for the Pinn Drop podcast, a series of conversations with […]
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What’s the hardest thing about being a person?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Despite the many ways we’ve invented to cushion our reality, being a person is hard. Our bodies and minds, the products of blind and often haphazard evolution, don’t always serve to make the experience easier. And the dizzying speed of change in recent centuries has us living in a world we were not adapted for. […]
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How do you feel about death and dying?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Knowing that we will die is the greatest challenge of being human. Accepting that death represents oblivion, the end of experience, is perhaps the greatest challenge of a secular perspective. How do you feel about death and dying? Any voice comments you submit are subject tothe OnlySky User Submission Policy Jessale “Maybe I’m afraid of […]
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What (if anything) do you miss about being religious?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some people who leave religion behind never look back. But many others feel an absence—not of God, perhaps, but of the very human benefits woven into religious communities. What do you miss (if anything) about being religious? Any voice comments you submit are subject tothe OnlySky User Submission Policy Laura “I miss having acceptance by […]
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WATCH: NASA livestream of DART probe collision with asteroid begins 9/26 at 6pm EDT
Reading Time: < 1 minute At 7:14pm Eastern Daylight Time, NASA’s DART probe will impact the asteroid Dimorphos in the first attempt to deflect an asteroid from its path. The mission is a dry run for future attempts to deflect asteroids threatening Earth. Livestream begins at 6:00 pm on Monday September 26. Watch a stream of still images from the […]
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NASA shoots for the Moon with Artemis launch
Reading Time: 7 minutes UPDATE: Artemis 1, the first stage of a mission to return people to the surface of the Moon, was originally scheduled to launch on Monday August 29 at 8:33am EDT. That launch has been pushed back due to a failed engine bleed 40 minutes prior to launch. The next available window for launch is September […]
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OnlySky LIVE: Astrophysicist Dr. Sanjana Curtis looks back at 45 days of Webb telescope
Reading Time: < 1 minute Friday, August 26 @ 7 pm ET • TikTok: @sanjanacurtis Join us live on TikTok for a conversation with Dr. Sanjana Curtis, a science communicator, advocate for underrepresented communities in science, and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. We’ll be discussing and answering your questions about the […]