September 24th, 2006
Brian May (of Queen fame) has a new book coming out in October. It’s Co-authored with Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott. The book is called “Bang – The Complete History of the Universe“. Some of you may know that May was a PhD astronomy student in the early days of Queen. He completed his thesis [...]
September 22nd, 2006
At last. A new organisation, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, has been formed to advance the cause of reason and science. Please join and make the world a better place by protecting the The Enlightenment view of the world.
September 22nd, 2006
Despite what spin the Church of England might have put on the churchgoing figures that where released last week the fact is that people are abandoning churches, and religion according to other surveys, at a high rate. Happy days. Some stats: 6.3% of the population go to church on an average Sunday, compared to 7.5% [...]
September 19th, 2006
Nice one. Camilla Eriksson has done a nice Flash animation to go with Eric Idle’s brilliant The Galaxy Song from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
September 17th, 2006
I’ve decided to cancel my registration on the OU Technology course I posted about here. I’m going to use the money for a trip instead. Probably WWDC 2007.
September 17th, 2006
The TED website now has a TEDtalk by Richard Dawkins. You can watch it here. There is also a very good audio book on the iTMS in which he is interviewed as part of the New Yorker festival.
September 9th, 2006
I’ve posted about the excellent TED talks before. The one just posted by Helen Fisher is very good indeed. You can get it at the TED website or on iTMS.