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Recent Posts

Great article on the importance of Net Neutrality
Facebook is the new NWO (not the wrestling alliance)
All Action. No Reason. Starring Michael Bay.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the Value of the Printed Word
Once an Etiology: a short rant on the Tree of Life
Beautiful
Two Ways of Looking at the World

All Posts by Tyler Handley

Tyler Handley

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Email: tylerhandley@theedger.org

Tyler Handley is a recent honours graduate in Communications and Religion and Culture from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He is specifically interested in the application of philosophy towards living a fulfilling life, and the intersection between human rights and social media. After founding the Laurier Freethought Alliance, a campus club dedicated to promoting and practicing freedom of inquiry, Tyler went on to take the role of VP of Multimedia for the Freethought Association of Canada and a summer intern position at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, New York. In the summer of 2008, while working at CFI, he co-founded Edger, the world’s first newsblog dedicated to promoting freedom of thought. He also co-founded, co-hosts, and produces the Point of Inquiry podcasts’ sister podcast The Course of Reason.

All Posts

Thank you Mr. Bush. No, really!
Where is the case for optimism?
Mutiny on a Chromosome
Conservation-ing
The life of a language
Five animal names that make you giggle
Open Minded, Open Sourced
What makes us Human?
…but on the other hand, you have different fingers
In Defense of Nuclear Power
Out of Africa (another route)
Did Neanderthals Pray? – Part 2
Did Neanderthals Pray? – Part 1
An interview with Dr. Terese Hart
From the Frontlines of Conservation
Subjectivity in Medicine
Bush Admin’s new proposal for the ESA
A Vegetarian Spider
Can Chimpanzees understand English?
21st Century Tribalism

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Factoista is an online freethought advocacy organization that relies on its users for content. Through international broad-based collaboration with its users, and other groups and organizations, it strives to provide timely and comprehensive news, views, reviews, and creative multimedia on issues at the forefront of everything under the umbrella of freethought:
1. Defending civil liberties like freedoms of speech, inquiry, information, religion or lack thereof, and association
2. Opposing misinformation, pseudoscience, and quackery
3. Commenting on the intersection of religion with politics, science, human rights, and academia
4. Discussing media misinformation and reform, environmental defense, and human rights.
5., Defending and supporting the continued growth of the Internet as a central enabler of idea and information sharing, social organization, advocacy and political participation. Relevant issues include net neutrality, the social impact of the Net and various programs (e.g., the blogosphere, social networking and news aggregator applications, search engines), and means of enhancing netroots advocacy.
5. Contribute significantly to the expansion, coordination and social/political import and impact of humanism and freethought.
Factonista is about putting people before ideas, reason before superstition, and evidence before faith. It’s about being team players (i.e., putting reason, honesty, civility first), as we can achieve far more in collaboration than in isolation. And it’s about making the most of our creativity, diverse skills and backgrounds to contribute to a collective intelligence that will have influence far and wide.