The Reality about Morality project team has aggregated the latest in peer-reviewed research and updated the Brights’ Morality Web Portal with sixteen key additions.

The recently added studies offer further evidence of the natural underpinnings of human morality. That is, the new material adds distinct potency to the four empirically grounded assertions (absent supernatural involvement) presented on the Brights’ morality infographic.

For serious students of the subject of morality, direct link access to the “open science” published studies (PDF format) is provided. So, if you are interested in keeping up with the newest research on that subject, you can check out these latest additions (in the web page list, search the date, 2016).

See a general project overview.

Teachers appreciate that Earth and Life: changes over time gives youngsters both the “big idea” of evolution and some crucial “deep detail.” The visual combination helps youngsters to see the physical/biological connections.

Brights can appreciate that the concise and engaging visual format “speaks” to teenagers. Students learn how life on earth (and humanity) has come to be. No supernatural involvement there! Students can more readily comprehend the natural processes of evolutionary change. 

To a “Science-Minded Citizen,” observation is the most fundamental of scientific process skills. It’s certainly one that Adam Manning takes to heart.

Says he: “It’s all too easy to take the living world around us for granted, to not even notice it and to consign nature to designated parks, zoos or far off lands.” 

This month Adam writes about taking a closer look at what exists close by. Check out his “Wildlife in Your Neighborhood” post.

An online opportunity to endorse the petition calling on the UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May to abandon plans for 100% religiously selective schools in England exists on the website of the British Humanist Association and can actually be signed by individuals from any country.

The Russian Brights have a meaty website, and we at Brights Central check in with it now and then (using Google translate). It’s like being a tourist without tour guide; there’s lots to be lost in the translation!

Still, as can be seen from the three graphics examples at left, one will typically run into a visual treat there. The graphics are just great. (Example interpretations, top to bottom:  religion vs. science? wishing for brighness worldwide? Daniel Dennett as a deity?)  Enjoy.

But a site visit also offers access to some substantive material.  A recent blog entry (accompanying the topmost graphic) tackles philosophical interpretations of methodological naturalism.

A static cling bearing the “No Supernatural Ingredients” image shown here carries a $2 value on the website’s merchandise page.  During the month of November and while supplies last, BC will be glad to send one free with just your standard self-addressed envelope stamped already with one ounce postage.

Of course, we do recognize that the combo ends up costing you almost a dollar! So, you can expect to receive back some “surprise!” bonus items in the envelope.

But no large envelopes, please! A standard office envelope means everything fits for the one ounce 47 cents US postage and still permits our enclosing a couple of light-weight bonus items.

Of course the cling comes to you in hopes that you will display it in a spot where others will have the opportunity to view it. Properly installed, the item is long lasting (one BC staffer has had one on the sidewalk side car window for over 5 years).

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Note to Brights regarding such free offers:  Given the international postage rates, BC has to count on American Brights to help out a bit so that we can also send to Brights located elsewhere and request offered items via email. Based on any incoming small donations, we supply to Brights in other nations as we can.  A dollar or two for another Bright will be a kindly action. For a non-USA request, email your postal address to the-brights@the-brights.net with “CLING” in the subject line.