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Saturday, 27 July 2013

BBC film crews

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Having been somewhat involved with the workings of a BBC film crew yesterday, for a programme that will be hosted by Richard Hammond, I am l...
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Friday, 26 July 2013

Thought-provoking video about Intelligent Design

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What a thought provoking video about Intelligent Design, from The Thinking Atheist ! It ends up with this quote from Stephen Fry. ...
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Something Surprising is back

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After a break of a couple of weeks, a regular feed of posts will restart later this evening.  Thanks for continuing to follow.
Thursday, 11 July 2013

Another UK crisis - MPs pay

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The UK Government has imposed a 1% limit on the increase of salary for public sector workers for the next three years, having already frozen...
Sunday, 7 July 2013

Skeptical about Skeptoid - go for green instead!

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The Skeptoid podcast has been one of my favourites for two or three years, and Brian Dunning's analyses of the topics that he covers ge...
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Saturday, 6 July 2013

New RDFRS newletter revealed

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The Richard Dawkins Foundation(s) for Reason and Science (RDFRS) have released a newsletter, the first one being available here .  (As you m...
Friday, 5 July 2013

Downloading consciousness?

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Have you heard of the ' 2045 Project '?  I started to hear a few whispers about this fascinating and seemingly impossible idea recen...
Thursday, 4 July 2013

Does Creation science have any convincing arguments?

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Oxford Skeptics in the Pub hosted Peter Harrison this week.  He is based at St Andrews University (of which I am a graduate) so it was fun ...
Wednesday, 3 July 2013

The Wedge

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About 20 years ago, the Discovery Institute, that ivory tower of ' intelligent design ', was caught out.  Yes really! It was rev...
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Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Fast trains or fusion?

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The surprising thing is that someone else has finally noticed that we are not spending enough money on developing fusion as the power sourc...
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Monday, 1 July 2013

The rights of man - more Thomas Paine

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Last year I wrote about Thomas Paine, the first New Atheist , having just read his book ' The Age of Reason ' which was decades ahea...
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Sunday, 30 June 2013

Lennox's non-fairy tale?

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Oxford University Professor, John Lennox mumbled some incoherent nonsense (it is reported, e.g. here and here , and much better here ) at ...
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Saturday, 29 June 2013

Eating well in England

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I ate very well in England, both last night and this lunch time.  However, the words of W Somerset Maugham come to mind: ...
Friday, 28 June 2013

Right Royal Shame!

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In this week's news we hear once again that the Queen is going to get a 5% pay rise next year, while everyone else working for the gover...
Thursday, 27 June 2013

Taking rice cereusly

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Yes that was a deliberate mis-spelling, and yes it was meant to sound like 'seriously'. Why is it that we are warned not to reheat...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Preaching to the choir

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We often hear the accusation that we are preaching to the choir . On last week's episode of The Pod Delusion (a great British podcast...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013

JET - 30 years old, and still state-of-the-art!

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the first day of operation of the Joint European Torus, JET, and it is still the most successful fusion dev...
Monday, 24 June 2013

Action needed on FGM

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Today, BBC Radio 4's ' Today ' programme briefly mentioned the problem of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).  It interspersed thi...
Sunday, 23 June 2013

Stuck on a sandbank!

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Well - that was an 'interesting' day.  It started very well indeed but it soon got complicated.  Cruising up the River Thames, on a...
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Saturday, 22 June 2013

Protecting children

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In UK news recently there has been a lot of fuss about a teacher running away to France with a 15 year old 'student' (or to translat...