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Sad news: I was not able to make it to Miller's talk at St. Catherine's last night. We're down to one car right now, and the choice was between me indulging myself with a long drive and a Ken...
The Kwok has been mailing all over the place. He has complained to facebook, and to the Panda's Thumb. He has written to CFI-Michigan in advance of my visit here, telling them to throw a pie in my...
Feel in need of a purgative? Watch this video of Michael Shermer interviewing a creation "scientist" at the Creation Museum. I could only make it halfway through before closing it in...
Hey, gang — help me out with this list of states with statewide grassroots organizations working to maintain and improve science education. I've found lists at Citizens for Science groups and...
I am sometimes accused of having a sense of humor. This base canard is completely unfounded; I merely have great material sent to me. For example, this is an actual abstract for a paper given at...
I think I like this woman. Nell McCafferty rips into representatives of the Catholic church, asking, "What's holy about the Vatican?" and insisting that they ought to set aside the titles of "Father" and "Grace" and so forth, because they've betrayed...
I'm going to be on radio station KPFK, 90.7 FM in LA, at 10:15am California time (12:15 Central time). You can also listen in via the web.
This is a left-wing Pacifica station, so I'm sure they'll be piping it into all the California shopping...
In March, there's going to be a massive atheist conference in Melbourne, Australia. It's going to be excellent, with speakers being brought in from around the world, and with mobs of delighted godless Aussies gathering to celebrate and discuss...
Michael Young was a nasty old Christian bigot who lived a long life and left his fortune to his relatives. Apparently,though, fundamentalist hate isn't necessarily heritable, and one of those relatives, who I think is named Anthony Perry, established...
