Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
So — the challenge over my holidays is to start introducing students to religion! And atheism! This is really going to be a lot of fun! The program involves ‘Ideas of God’ and ‘Religious and Mystical Experience’. While I can find a variety of useful general texts (the likes of AC Grayling, Stephen J Gould, [...]
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I love being in NZ – I use Air NZ when traveling and have stopped off in Auckland a number of times when heading to the USA. This, however, is a brand-new find for me and I seriously hope that other conferences will follow the New Zealand Skeptics example! They just had their conference, held [...]
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Great new site, great new idea! RESURCH+ORG is (merely, humbly, sporadically) my personal collection of links, references, insights, and inspirations that I have compiled while writing The Skepdad Blog. These are sites I read, books I reference, documents I consult, or information I find otherwise useful and interesting. I’ve put it here specifically to be [...]
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Today I find it immensely gratifying that people are being redirected to my site because of a post I did for Darwin Day for Kids. It’s particularly wonderful that Daniel Loxton has been profiled with his own ‘Darwin for Kids’ book — ‘Evolution’ — in the most recent e-Skeptic! In commemoration of Charles Darwin’s 200th [...]
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Thanks to Evolving Thoughts: “David Chalmers and his student David Bourget at the Australian National University have developed a new resource: PhilPapers. This is a hot list to online versions of (so far) over 188,000 items in current philosophy.”
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A new President for the USA. Things are kind of looking up, despite the financial crisis. So, I thought I might mention a play that is coming to my town that is rather out of touch with the times, as well as rather out-of-date for a concept. This play, written and presented as a one-man [...]
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Big thanks to Zuska! [Ruta Sevo has] posted about 100 recommended resources on women in science and engineering, organized into small chunks, calling it “10 x 10 List.” When you use Google to find things, or a large database, you have to decide, “Is it any good?” These are short lists of selected resources for [...]
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