Richard Dawkins interviews Father George Coyne

Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown

Cute turtles and one of my favorite spelling errors

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I couldn’t help myself.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7748280.stm

Stephen Fry on Room 101

Always a pleasure to hear Mr. Fry talk. I particularly like the bit where he talks about the “New Age” “positive energy” crap.

Hitchens vs. Wolpe

Genius of Darwin


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Sea-steady

Ever heard of Patri Friedman? No, not Milton Friedman the nobel laureate economist, or David Friedman the economist and medieval fiend; Patri Friedman, son to the latter, grand-son to the former, and founding member of the Seasteading institute whose mission is to

Establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems.