Richard Dawkins appeared in Real Time with Bill Maher last night, and there’s a video up on youtube. Let’s see how long it hangs around for. There’s a lot of controversy over Maher’s reciept of the Richard Dawkins award this year. Read more about that here. Maher may be a nutjob ‘big pharma’ conspiracy theorist, but he made religulous, so we gotta like him just a little don’t we?
Our friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta has made my dreams come true by enlightening us to the availability of the infamous Smith Cotton High School Tiger Pride Marching Band t-shirt with evolutionary imagery that was so ridiculously ruled offensive on religious grounds at a high school band event. Read more about the story at Hemant’s blog or contact Main Street Logo to buy your own piece of ridiculous history!
Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy has tipped us off to a brilliant blog in which the voyage of the HMS Beagle, or more specifically Darwin’s account of the voyage, is being posted in good ol modern blog form for us to follow at our leisure. On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s ‘On The Origin of Species’ this innovative exploration of the voyage which lead to science’s most important discovery comes as a welcome and fascinating diversion from the troubles of modern times.
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