Well, my teaching sabbatical is drawing to a close and, after a great deal of deliberation, I have accepted a permanent post at Medicine Hat College in lovely rural Alberta. My tenure there begins 1 July and so I am relatively busy planning the move.
My plan for the blog hasn’t change dramatically; except for frequency… [...]
I know it has been months since my last post and even longer since the last podcast. I am sorry.
However, the podcasts were getting pounded by requests and blew my bandwidth allotment for the month.
So, they are gone. If you have copies, save them. My dulcet tones preserved there will have to do.
Jeremy Paxman interviews Richard Dawkins on the BBC’s Newsnight about his newest Book “The God Delusion”.
Read an excerpt and get the interview here.
Dawkins, during the interview (at 0:30), says “The claim that the universe contains a god, contains a creative intelligence, is a scientific claim, because the universe would be a very different kind [...]
I wasn’t sure if I was going to make any comment about the shootings at Dawson College in Montreal. It wasn’t clear to me that I would be able to say anything that wasn’t going to be said by someone more erudite. However, over the last few days I have read a number of articles [...]
